Abraham in Jerusalem: The Community of Israel. The History Of Jerusalem (Episode 2)

Abraham in Jerusalem: The Community of Israel. 

The new 'dark yoga' lasted for 300 years. During this time the worshipers of a single God, the Hebrews, also known as the Israelites, settled in the narrow land of Canaan and built an empire.  

Abraham in Jerusalem: The Community of Israel. The History Of Jerusalem (Episode 2)


Their progress is illustrated vividly through stories about the creation of the world, their origin and their relationship with God - Ebbs.  They disseminated these stories, which were written down as scriptures in Hebrew, and later compiled into the Five Books of Moses (the Pentateuch).

This is the first chapter of the Jewish religious books (Tanakh) the Bible became the book of books. But it is not a single document. It can be said, that a mystical library is created by combining various books written and edited by unknown authors in different eras for different purposes. 

Compiled at different junctures of the ages and by the hands of many people, this holy work contains some proven facts of history, some stories like legends which cannot be proven, some poems full of divine beauty, there are many obscurities, which may be due to wrong translation.  Most of the writings are not merely narratives of events but attempt to establish a higher truth about man's relationship with his God.  The Bible is only the revelation of that divine power to the people of the world. To historians, it is a contradictory, unreliable, recursive source. Yet it is an invaluable resource readily available.  It is also truly the first and most important autobiography of the history of Jerusalem. 


According to the first book of Genesis,,,

According to the first book of Genesis, the patriarch of the Hebrews was Abram.  He came from Ur (now Iraq) and settled in Hebron.  The name of the land was Canaan. God had promised him this land. Later his name was Abraham or Ibrahim, the father of the nation.  As Abraham wandered from place to place, Melchizedek, the priest-king of Shamel, welcomed him into his kingdom in the name of the Most High God, El-Elaiyun.  This is the first mention of the city by name in the Bible.  This means that Jerusalem was the place of worship of the Canaanite community during the reign of the priest-kings.  Later God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac (Isaac) on a mountain in the 'Land of Moriah' as ​​a test.  The hill is today's Mount Moriah, known as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.  


Different historians describe the event in different ways in describing the birth of the Jewish people. 


A description such as 

Abraham has to compete with an alien, said to be later turned into God.  

With whom Abraham wrestled, as he later became God, he was given a new name (Israel) meaning one who wrestles with God.  From here was practically born the Jewish people, whose relationship with God was very emotional and painful.  


However, many historians have described the above narrative as false.  

Note that this was the recorded history of Jewish religious or ideological historians.  

Most prominent historians could not agree on this 

Different religious historians have different opinions on these matters and have described them in different ways. 

The 12 tribes that migrated to Egypt were the founding fathers of Israel. The stories of these so-called clan leaders are so contradictory that it is impossible to date them historically.  


430 years later, in the book of Exodus (Book of Exodus), the Israelites are depicted as oppressed slaves engaged in building Pharaoh's city.  The book also recounts the miraculous escape from Egypt (which Jews still celebrate on this day) led by a Hebrew prince named Moses, by the grace of God. As they wandered through Sinai, God gave Moses the Ten Commandments.  If the Israelites lived and worshiped according to these laws, God promised to give them back the land of Canaan.  When Moses asked God's nature, "How are you? Forbidden to question it, the answer came, 'I am, that is,' meaning the Nameless God, meaning Yahweh in Hebrew, later misspelled by Christians as Jehovah. 



Many of the Semites settled in Egypt; Perhaps Pharaoh Ramses II the Great forced Hebrews to work in his commercial cities.  The name Moses is Egyptian.  It seems to have originated there at least.  There is no doubt that he was the first charismatic leader of the monotheistic religions.  According to Jewish historians, Moses or someone like him received this divine message and from there the religion began.  The story of Semitic people fleeing persecution is plausible but does not match the period of the event.  Moses glimpsed the Promised Land from Mount Nebo but died before he could enter it.  The Israelites entered Canaan under the leadership of his successor Joshua.  The Bible describes their wanderings as both bloody wanderings and successive settlements. There is no archaeological evidence of occupation. However rural settlers found many unwalled villages in the Judaean highlands.  Perhaps a small group of Israelites who fled Egypt were among them.  They are united by worshiping God (Yahweh).  They worshiped God in a mobile temple. This temple housed a wooden sacred box called the Ark of the Covenant (which contained the stone tablets containing the Ten Commandments of Moses).  They probably adopted a strategy of self-identification through narrating the stories of the founder group Patis. Many of these stories, from Adam and the Garden of Eden to Abraham, have been followed by not only Jews, but also Christians and Muslims, and have been based in Jerusalem.

This was the first time the Israelis were able to get very close to the city. 


Abraham in Jerusalem: The Community of Israel. The History Of Jerusalem (Episode 2)


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*** The subject of creation comes up twice in Genesis 1.1-2.3 and 2.4-25. Twice about the genealogy of Adam, twice the story of the flood, twice the story of the capture of Jerusalem, and twice the story of how Jacob's name is Israel. There are also wide inconsistencies in its chronology - for example, the Philistines and Armenians are mentioned in Genesis at a time when they did not come to Canaan.  The camel has long been a beast of burden.  Dissenters believe that the books of the Bible were originally written by writers of different tribes.  While one emphasizes El, the God of Canaan, the other emphasizes Yahweh, the God of Israel.  


**** The high priest in the temple in Jerusalem could only pronounce this four-letter word Yahya (YHWH) once a year.  Even today the pronunciation of this word is forbidden.  Adonai (Lord) or Ha-Shem (the name that cannot be spoken) is used instead.  


|| The arrival of the Israelites in Canaan is like a complicated battlefield. Its history stands on facts that cannot be proven.  The surprise attack on Jericho seems like a myth.  Its walls were destroyed in the triumph of Joshua: the city of Jericho is older than Jerusalem.  (In 2010, the Palestinian Authority celebrated the city's 10,000th anniversary—although this date is determined by fate.) 

However, the city of Jericho was temporarily deserted and no evidence of a wall collapse has been found.  It is difficult to accept the possession theory as correct.  Because the battle (according to the Book of Joshua) took place in a very small area.  Rather, one of the captured cities described in the Book of Judges, the city of Bethel near Jerusalem, was destroyed in the 13th century.  As claimed, the people of the Israelite community were more peaceful and tolerant. 


Will continue......


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