ʿApiru
ʿApiru, also known in the Akkadian version Ḫabiru is a term used in 2nd-millennium BCE texts throughout the Fertile Crescent for a social status of people who were variously described as rebels, outlaws, raiders, mercenaries, bowmen, servants,... Wikipedia
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A people known as “habiru” or “hapiru” appear in cuneiform texts dated from the 20th to the 18th centuries b.c. in southern Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and in the ...
(The term Habiru, meaning “Outsiders,” was applied to nomads, fugitives, bandits, and workers of inferior status; the word is etymologically related to “Hebrew, ...
Being dis- loyal or subversive, in the idiom of that time, is —to act“ (epeœs∑u) Habiru, that is, to —side with“ the dangerous Habiru-enemy. If it could be ...
From Habiru to Hebrews: The Roots of the Jewish Tradition
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The notion that the Biblical tradition originated in a revolution of some kind, possibly led by outlaw bands of armed men known as Habiru, has lost what little ...
Hebrew 'āpār, dust), one equipped, and member of a labor gang (Albright according to an earlier view; cf. Egyptian 'pr, to equip). Moreover, since Semitic b ...
Oct 5, 2015 · The Habiru is a reference in ancient Egyptian documents to nomadic vagrants or itinerant bandits that plagued settlements everywhere from Egypt ...
Away from the cities of the Levant were populations of habiru, a disorganised movement of outsiders who ranged from semi-nomadic social outcasts and those who ...
Mar 7, 2024 · I know many scholars have identified the Apiru/Haviru with Proto-Israelites due to the linguistic similarities (Ivri/aviru, Haibru/Hebrew).