My father was a perishing Aramean Devarim 26,5

[Yaaqov Ben Yisrael]

Shalom Chaverim,

 

 It has always been the attempts of the Bible scholars to promote a connection between the Habiru and the Hebrews, even though there really is no connection at all. One overlooked facet of the Bible narrative is the fact that the Israelites are commanded to say that our father was a perishing Aramean. That there is a connection between Aram and the Israelites there is no doubt. The wives of Yitschaq and Yaqov were from Aram, and almost all the tribes were born in Aram and Avraham came from Ur of the Kasdim which was a part of the Aramean regions.

 

 One of the earliest references to the Arameans  is in the Sumerian and Akkadian, as well as the Egyptian inscriptions as Suti. The Suti were known as nomads who often acted as mercenaries to ward of the invading kings in the land of Cana'an. It is interesting that Avraham is said to have had mercenary retainers in his house and his 318 men routed the confederated kings of Chedolaomer. I have not read in any place which speaks of the Suti in a manner which makes mention of any cognate relation to Suti among the Hebrew text. I believe that there is a cognate relation between Suti and Seth ben Adam. The yod suffix is normally a application of tribal affiliation, and so Suti would naturally mean Sethite. If this is so, this could be the missing link everyone has been searching for, because Suti is prominent is the inscriptions of Egypt, Sumeria, and Akkadian, as well as most other Near Eastern lands where the Hebrews settled and dwelt.

 

Yaaqov ben Yisrael

[Zvi]

Shalom Yaaqov.

Have you pondered the apparent relation -- at least semantic -- between this Suti and the Shosu/Shoso (שוסו) mentioned in Egyptian inscriptions? 

In YHWH we trust,

Zvi

[Yaaqov Ben Yisrael]

Shalom Zvi,

 

 Yes, I have pondered that quite a bit. There seems to be a lot of leeway in relation to cognates among languages, even among the Semitic branch. The T and the S are among those consonants which are interchangeable among the cognate relations. The Hebrew word for woman, for example,  is Ishah, while the cognate Aramaic is Ittha. There is a famous inscription going around lately about the Shasu of Yah; the anme many consider to be a form of YaH is actually of a land called Yahh, and not a divinity. This land was identified by Professor Sayce (if memory serve me) in the Akkadian inscriptions as a land equivalent to modern day Jordan, Syrian, and parts of Iraq. The Shasu, on the other hand, are identified as the nomadic groups of Moab, themselves a Hebrew group. There was some question as to the determinative on Shasu as a land as opposed to a people, but the people and land may be the same.

 

Yaaqov ben Yisrael

[Yaaqov Ben Yisrael]

Shalom again Zvi,

 

 I also find it interesting that when Avraham instructed his servant to find a wife for Yitschaq, he instructed him to go to Avraham's land, his birthplace, and the servant went to Aram Naharayim.

 

Yaaqov ben Yisrael

[Tirtzah bat Yisra'el]

Shabat shalom Zvi v'chag Sameach:

 

Was wondering what light you could shed, if any, on this new claim over the past century, that the original Hebrew Isra'elites including Avraham and Moshe etc. were of the black skinned race from such places as Egypt and Ethiopia?  I would like to be able to debate this topic intelligently along with some proofs from ha miqra.  The so called "reasonings/proofs" which they themselves provide as their "evidence/proof" is easily seen as unable to hold water once studied out, however, I would like to combat this with proof of the opposite, rather than simply saying what they say doesn't hold water.  Can you provide any help for me on this?

 

Tirtzah

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