The people of Israel were firmly rooted in the tissues of life and being of the cultures and civilizations in living and active content, and in many subjects and fields, and for our purposes in the current series - in physical activity
The statement taken from Parashat Belk in the Bible - "They are a people shall dwell alone and the Gentiles shall not be considered" is fundamentally wrong, although it is interwoven with quite a bit of heartache and heart desires. The people of Israel were firmly rooted in the tissues of life and being of the cultures and civilizations in living and active content, and in many subjects and fields, and for our purposes in the current series - in physical activity.
It is worth noting and emphasizing a number of fundamental truths that we first dug into the very ancient layers of the people in question, that is, the people of Israel.
First - the nation of Israel as a nation did not begin to appear on the stage of history before the beginning of the Second Temple (mid-sixth century BC) if not later - somewhere from the beginning of the Hellenistic period - the first quarter of the fourth century BC. That is to say, until then there was a kind of darkness of religions, cultures and historical memories, and therefore when we start and deal with the biblical period we will have a very difficult time referring to the testimonies, beyond their sufficiency and historical skepticism, that reflect the characteristics of a people.
Secondly - the subject of physical activity in the ancient, very ancient era, raises a complex problem, the main of which is the very definition of physical activity as a sport. It is common among the researchers of the subject, to see the historical starting point in this field as deeply rooted in the history of classical Greece (although regarding the definition of classical Greece there is a complicated problematic due to its disparity, and not least because of the chronological aspects involved) and leaves its quasi-topographical domain only In the fourth century B.C., we were in a relatively late relationship to the discussed, sports tests, related to the biblical testimonies. For this reason, it is more convenient to regard the biblical testimonies as relating to physical activity in some context, survival, military and ritual.
Thirdly - and as implied by the above - physical activity in the ancient era was closely related to survival for its own sake, to such an extent that it is very difficult, and sometimes almost impossible, to separate the survival aspect from the sporting aspect. It can be said as follows: the sport was "born" at a time when combat/survival activity shed its lethal characteristics and was subject to a system of rules and laws. The "last" stage in the hatching of the sporting butterfly from the prison strings of the deadly cocoon was summed up in the transfer of physical activity to the social and cultural sphere, i.e. to the sphere of leisure activities, and from this we will immediately understand the socio-economic and of course the political context between the activity and those who engage in it and/or employ others in it.
If we summarize the last point, it is said that "sport is the cultural/social/political sublimation of war and is involved in it, whether consciously or unconsciously, whether by initiative or by chance" (as defined by the writer of these lines).
Fourth - between the ancient physical activity and the ritual activity, a very brave connection was made, and not only because almost all fields of activity and occupation in the ancient era were involved in one way or another in faith, religion and worship. In other words, the leadership in the ancient period was helped by all the holy tools, whether in controlling the religious system or in the overlap of "one-to-one", i.e. king/judge=religious priest. And since the physical activity, military or similar, was tied up in religious ceremonies, as the relevant sources and anthropological studies will testify, the same connection was cast as above. Moreover, one of the physical-ritual occupations was rooted in dance, and the people doing the craft were therefore required to have a high physical fitness, far beyond the flock of their shepherds.
In the following chapters we will deal with the physical activity of the people of Israel during the biblical period and we must remember that there is still a strong connection between physical activity and survival and military/combat, although it is possible to notice, here and there, some sort of crack between the two categories, and even a hint of an interesting development from survival to the introduction to sports.
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Quote from the words of Prof. Amichai Mazar, the magazine "Earth and Nature" 2001
"Misha's tombstone is an inscription engraved on a monumental stone tombstone, which was found in the past in the eastern Jordan, in Divon which is north of the Arnon river. The inscription, from the ninth century BC, is written in Moabite in a script identical to the ancient Hebrew script. It opens with the following words: "Myself, Misha son of Chemosh, the king of Moab, the Devonian." Then Misha records events mentioned in the Bible, from his point of view: "My father reigned over Moab for thirty years and I myself reigned after my father. And I will make this stage for Kmush in Karche, the stage of Yeshua's death, because he saved me from all the kings and because he protected me from all my enemies. Omri, the king of Israel, tortured Moab for many days and his son succeeded him and he also said: I will torture Moab. Bimi said so. And I will see his downfall and the downfall of his house, and Israel will be lost forever." Then Misha describes the war of liberation of Moab from Israel.
One of the most interesting verses in Misha's tombstone says that "And the man of Gad dwelt in the land of Atarot never before." And the king of Israel built him crowns." The mention of Gad is fascinating, says Mazar: "Misha, the king of Moab, knew that Gad was located in the east of the Jordan, a fact that perfectly matches what is written in the Bible, which says that the tribe of Gad did live in the east of the Jordan."
Another extra-biblical reference, only recently discovered, is written on two fragments belonging to a victory stele of an Armenian ruler. It is possible that the stele, which was found in Tel Dan, was written by Hazal, the king of Syria and Damascus. The inscription describes the victory of the king of Aram over Israel. It was placed in Dan after the city was conquered by the Arameans, and was probably destroyed when the Israelis recaptured it. In the inscription the Kingdom of Judah is mentioned under the name "House of David". In the ninth century BC it is customary to name a kingdom after the name of its founder. Just as the Assyrians identified the kingdom of Israel as the "House of Omri", so Hazael identified the kingdom of Judah as the "House of David". According to some researchers, this designation for the Kingdom of Judah also appears on the tombstone of Misha the Moabite. This shows that about 120 years after David's death, his name was known throughout the region as the founder of the dynasty that ruled Judah. This also serves to strengthen the hypothesis that David was a real historical figure who had a considerable influence on the course of the historical development in our region."
Each time the respected professor finds some other meaningless hanger to hang his outdated views (originating in the anti-Semitic Protestants of Germany in the 19th century) on the matter of the Jewish people, its origin and history. And when the commenters on the site refer to the goddess' opinion, he comes with claims, as in responses 5 and 6 and demands that they refer to the meaningless hanger.
What is not clear to me in this whole theory
The one that brings you many references about the Jewish / Israeli / Hebrew people
And you continue to insist that the Jewish people were created in the second house
What makes you decide this?
Is there historical evidence for this or is it simply more spicy (or worse, a political bias) to claim so?
Ilan - The meme is Syrian about the excavation, but in principle also in the book of Esther when it says "the Jew" it means "from the land of Judah", in the Bible we come across the term "Jewish" as a language (Kings XNUMX:XNUMX) as the name of the Hebrew, and not just as the name of the land... the attempt to say that it is There was only a kingdom named Judah, this is a bit simply not in line with reality, there is no such thing as a country without a people, a king without a people, a people with a specific culture that is not a culture...this is an impossible thing.
It is true that they are all people of Israel, but the name Jew has become synonymous with it, because after the destruction of Samaria, all the Jews who remained in the land, including the ten tribes, actually joined Judah (there is also evidence that Judah took control of the land of Israel, after the defeat of Assyria in the area, strong evidence of this can be found From the war between Judah and Egypt, because Egypt decided to pass through the territories of the Land of Israel in the Kingdom of Samaria, which the Jews in Judah considered their country, also the activity carried out in these areas by the kings shows a connection with the Jews who remained in these areas and that they would also come to Jerusalem, etc.)
In short, it's roughly like saying that you can say "Italian" without having to do with the Italian people, "French" without having to do with the French people.... There is no reason for "Jew" to be anything less than that.
Indeed, bottom line, it was a people, a culture, and formation
The Jew with Sennacherib (as for Hezekiah the Jew...) - the meaning is from the land of Judah, not the Jewish people.
In the days of the First Temple, there were no Jews in the modern sense.
There are "Israelites" (residents of Israel) and "Jews" (residents of Judah). Two factions (mainly political) of the people of Israel.
A Jew in the sense of belonging to the people of Israel - this is only from the times of the Second Temple.
In fact, the people of Israel went into exile in Babylon as Jews and returned as Jews.
In any case, even if we call it "the organic eggplant nation" - it is still a nation, and not the mixture of nonsense concocted by the respected writer.
By the way, there are many names for the Land of Israel in the Assyrian sources, from "Land of Omri" in the days of Ahab's dynasty to "Yod" as the name of Judah
Yair - Shree is the name of wicked people who will rot.
The mention by Marnfath Shari is not just a clan, it is a people that he claims he destroyed!! Which shows that for some reason they were still angry enough with us a hundred or so years later, until they bothered to lie to their people that they managed to destroy us, but come on 🙂
The kings of Assyria refer only to "kings" in relation to any nation they speak of, it is not possible for a king to be without a nation he is in front of. You will agree with me, all the more so when one of the kings of Assyria (Sennacherib Yamach his name) in the interpretation says "the Jew" (on Hezekiah King Zetzuk'l )
Okay, we understand the sport.
I'm actually waiting for Achimetz and Nechi, and also for Eliyahu who was a good sprinter.
But how will we take you seriously if a central paragraph is so wrong and far-fetched.
Who will stick by me, because the continuation is nothing but vanity?
Dear friends, instead of dealing with the substance of the matter, you flap and drill in the matter of a body.
We discussed more the essence of the subject, or whether the occupation is more complete and lacks frills
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What is the difference between bed linen and bedding?
What is between my articles, and at least this one, and my political views.
And you will also be surprised that, unlike the previous series, this series is supposed to pamper the people
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Is that why Shari? Are you afraid that some demon will come out of Mernfatah or the kings of Assyria?
In any case, the mention of Israel by Marnfatah does not indicate a "nation" in the modern sense, but a clan or tribe of a few tens or hundreds of people at most. And the kings of Assyria refer to the kingdoms and not to the people.
And that's why they "counted"? Look at the date above your comment, our count, the count of the whole world, which has been going on since the birth of the most famous and important Jew in the world.
Indeed, those populations that were called Israel before the Babylonian exile believed in and performed rituals in the Babylon of beliefs and cultures.
The author's mistake is in the name Israel which is very ancient, instead of Jews, which was created after the Babylonian exile.
Yahyam - I regret that you decided to return to Sorach.
I was waiting for the new series of your articles because I enjoyed reading the last articles you wrote in the series about the priesthood. I thought that here you received some kind of "enlightenment" and realized that distorting history and reality to suit your political views does not bring you any benefit and only harms your professional reputation.
I must have been wrong, (or distractedly copied a paragraph from an essay you wrote years ago).
And I quote: "The nation of Israel as a nation did not begin to appear on the stage of history before the beginning of the Second Temple (mid-sixth century BC) if not later - somewhere from the beginning of the Hellenistic period - the first quarter of the fourth century BC. That is, until then there was a kind of night of religions, cultures and historical memories."
Yahyam, it's nice that you don't let the facts confuse you.
You are sure that all the historical sources that discuss the people of Israel before the Second Temple - are a flower owl. Suppose. And if so, why aren't the Danish sources in the Second Temple period like that? And the sources about the Middle Ages? And the 19th and 20th century sources are wrong. In fact, there is no nation of Israel at all. never was at all. This is an invention of the Greek media.
"First of all - the nation of Israel as a nation did not begin to appear on the stage of history before the beginning of the Second Temple (mid-sixth century BC) if not later - somewhere from the beginning of the Hellenistic period - the first quarter of the fourth century BC. In other words, until then there was a kind of darkness of religions, cultures and historical memories, and therefore when we start and deal with the biblical period we will have a very difficult time referring to the testimonies, beyond their sufficiency and historical skepticism, that reflect the characteristics of a single people."
Interestingly, Pharao Maranfath Rabbi treated us as one people, Ai Shem in late 1208-1209 BC (after the tombstone of Maranfatah), that Manasser III, king of Assyria, Rabbi Ai Shem in 853 B.C. treated us as one people (a roof for two , Judah and Israel) who was cohesive enough to have more chariots than all the other peoples of the area (a.k.a. "the monolith from Necessity") King Sennacherib of Assyria, the king of the Shem Islands in the early seventh century BC, not only treats us as one nation, to Even mentioning the term "Jew" (according to Sennacherib's observatory), Tiglath Plaser III, Rabbi of Ai Shem between 744 and 727 B.C., speaks of the king of Israel, and of the king of Judah "Azaryo, king of Yod" (the same name in his inscriptions) who took control of all Is the beach area "popular" enough?
In short, of all these (and a host of others), the nation of Israel was at least enough of a "nation" in the eyes of the rulers of these nations no less than any other nation they spoke of, long, long before the end of the First Temple era, to be honest, even before it began, already in the days of the judges.
Don't go making up naive atheist fairy tales to ignore the past...