#habiru

An Important Archaeological Discovery: A Seal of Seti I

  Image: Anthropoidal Coffin Lid

Credit: Clara Amit/Israel Antiquities Authority

  An Important Archaeological Discovery (Courtesy of Foxnews.com):

Archaeologists uncovered a Bronze Age ceramic coffin and a golden scarab in Israel’s Jezreel Valley, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced Wednesday.

A ring with an Egyptian scarab seal was found with the name of the crown worn by Egyptian…

(For those who don't know what a "Habiru" is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habiru )

I'm a modern Habiru, If you want to know more about me, talk to me. This world is beautiful! I am multicultural and my tumblr reflects that.

The world is an evolving thing that continues to move forward....in a cycle.

God is everywhere and everything.

In all things in life, seek peace as much as possible. If peace cannot be achieved, then negotiate. Before you negotiate, set certain lines and standards. Don't ever compromise these standards.

When you negotiate, try to see things through the "lenses" of others.

Consciously consider your priorities before you say yes or no to a decision.

Question those priorities. If they are solid, they are good priorities to have.

If negotiation doesn't work, fight.

Don't stop fighting until you have either won or lost.

Peace agreements are only peaceful intermissions.

All humans are equally apish.

God is beyond everything anyone has ever imagined.

Foul language isn't shit. Kura tut!

Before you say the middle east is backward, consider the fact that civilization started there.

Laws are only true if they are enforced; Morality stands on its own; And ethics are a compromise between them both and is subject to the changing norms of the society that made them.

Anarchy is the "State of Nature" (which is all  nice until a jerk shows up and enforces his will on others), Democracy is the tyranny of the majority, Monarchy is the tyranny of an individual, Autocracy is the tyranny of a group of really rich people.

"After debunking widely-held misconceptions concerning semi-nomads and their relationship with settled agriculturalists (as mentioned above), and the belief that tribal organization indicated a (semi-)nomadic background, Mendenhall discussed the relationship between the terms 'Hebrew' and Apiru (the latter occurring most notably in the 'Amarna letters', correspondence between Canaanite city-state rulers and their Egyptian overlords in the 14th century

BC). By assuming these terms to be synonyms, and defining them to mean someone who 'has renounced any obligation to the society in which he formerly had some standing... and has in turn deprived himself of its protection', Mendenhall produced a radically new insight into Israelite origins: 'For if the early Israelites were called "Hebrews", they could be termed so only from the point of view of some existing, legitimate political society from which they had withdrawn.' The early Israelites were therefore to be seen as the native peasantry of Canaan withdrawing from the oppressive regime of the city-state system. 'There was no radical displacement of population, there was no genocide, there was no large-scale driving out of population, only of royal administrators (of necessity!).'