The Faith of the Habiru and the Hebrew

Habiru and the Hebrew

The Habiru were marauding war like nomadic tribes that wandered and raided areas of the Middle East. There is no conclusive evidence that the Habiru were the Hebrews. However, the Hebrews biblical record does illustrate a number of wars and conquests in the Old Testament of the Bible. Apart from the Habiru the archeological record of the Hebrews contains very little of that. To reconcile these two groups I would agree that some of the archeological records of the Habiru are in fact describing battles mentioned in the Old Testament. The Kingdom of the Hebrews was divided into a Northern and Southern kingdom and the secret to their division my lie in some linguistic differences between the Hapiru and the Hebrews.

These people are very important in World History because they provide the religion from which Judaism, Christianity and Islam are rooted. The emphasis on monotheism separates them from eastern religion and without understanding this it is impossible to unlock the virtues of the west. The Hebrew provides us with the key virtue to communicate with a monotheistic transcendental god. This virtue is faith. According to the new testament bible “It is the essences of things hoped for and the evidence of things unseen.” The elements of faith are numerous. They are reason, simplicity, trust and belief.

The devotion of the Egyptian culture differs from the faith of the Hebrew culture in that the Hebrew god could not be disproved. Therefore one can be devoted without faith but, not have faith and not be devoted. However, we can combine the two to form our first compound word in the language of virtues. That is “devoted faith” which means you are utterly devoted to the faith in an unseen transcendental monotheistic god. The compound and singular form of this word is a noun.

The faith of Abraham, Genesis: 15

15:1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
15:2 And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
15:3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
15:4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
15:6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
15:7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
15:8 And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
15:9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
15:10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
15:11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
15:12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not their's, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
15:14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
15:15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: