•The Ancient Hebrew language was written with 22 letters, each written with a picture, such as an ox, tent, foot or a door.

•The most basic Hebrew root words are formed by linking two Hebrew letters together and can be used as nouns or verbs.

•Each Hebrew word describes an action that can be seen in the nomadic journeys of the Hebrews through the wilderness.

•Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family.

•Hebrew in its modern form is spoken by most of the seven million people in Israel

•The earliest known writing in Hebrew dates from the 11th century BC.

Hebrews had many historical and life traditions. One example of a historical tradition is the Sukkoth. Sukkoth is a Jewish festival beginning on the 15th day of the month of Tishri which is the first month of Jewish calendar. It celebrates the harvest and commemorates the period during which the Jews wandered in the wilderness after the Exodus, marked by the building of Sukkoth. It is celebrated for nine days by Orthodox and conservative Jews outside of Israel and for eight days by Reform Jews and by Jews in Israel. Hebrews had several life traditions such as one for birth (Brit Milah), death, marriage (simcha), divorce, etc.

For the Hebrews, who were monotheistic, there was but one God - a powerful, all knowing, loving invisible spirit being who created all things. This God, who existed apart from sin and the powers of darkness, created the heavens and the earth and the first man and woman.The religion of the ancient Hebrews, Judaism, is perhaps the earliest monotheistic religion. Early Jews lived in small tribes that inhabited what is now Israel and Jordan. Tradition holds that the first Jew was Abraham, who embraced the idea that one God created and rules the universe. Abraham's descendants, often called the children of Israel (named after Abraham's son Jacob, who changed his name to Israel), established kingdoms in the region, until they were exiled by the Babylonians and finally the Romans into scattered colonies throughout the world. This scattering is often called the Diaspora. Jewish religious life once centered around the Temple in Jerusalem, but it is currently based upon a rabbinical tradition, with various written interpretations of the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) and what Christians refer to as the Old Testament serving as guidelines for living and serving humanity.

The daily diet of the ordinary ancient Israelite was mainly one of bread, cooked grains and legumes.

Bread was eaten with every meal.

The Israelites drank goat and sheep’s milk when it was available in the spring and summer, and ate butter and cheese.

Figs and grapes were the fruits most commonly eaten, while dates, pomegranates and other fruits and nuts were eaten more occasionally.

Wine was the most popular beverage and sometimes other fermented beverages were produced.

Vegetables played a smaller, but significant role in the diet.

While modern children enjoy high tech games like Game Boys or computer games, ancient times people played with what they had or used their imagination. Some things children played with were jump ropes, hoops, ancient modern board games, dolls, leather or seeded balls, etc. Some sports played were hockey, soccer and wrestling. Though Biblical scripture has little detail on the games that children played during biblical times, it is certain from recent excavations that Jewish children played as heartily as their counterparts in the ancient world.

Ancient Hebrew people were very colorful in their apparel, especially the priests.As for things made of cloth or thread the Hebrews commonly wore robes, sashes (belts), and turbans.Most garments were made of linen (especially the priest's garments), and a few of wool. Very few would have been made of both wool and linen.Often only the wealthy could afford the multitude of fineries mentioned in the Bible but almost everyone wore a robe.Another robe mentioned is addereth, a rather unique type of robe. It can carry the meaning of glory.Turbans or caps were worn on the head. Linen headdresses, twisted as turbans were common for men.Wealthy women wore jewelry such as kuwmaz it seemed to denote any form of necklace or bracelet, perhaps formed together with beads.

Although the Hebrew military in the ancient times wasn’t a lot they still had to fight to survive at some point and if they did have weapons they were broken down into 3 main categories these categories being, short-range, mid-range, and long range weaponry with an armor set as well.

Short-range- The short range weapons usually consisted of a sword or dagger which most times included a sacrificial dagger and also can include a spear.

Mid-range- The mid range weaponry was made to throw at enemies who were a short distance away and these consisted of javelins and sometimes a light spear but javelins flew much better.

Long-range- The long range weaponry was nothing to special just a bow and sling which threw rocks at people.

The Hebrews were also not known to often have these weapons most times so they ended up using fairly primitive weaponry such as rocks or crude farm tools.

The Hebrews armor was normally made of bronze because they were not fortunate to have iron metals until the monarch age. The armor set consisted of a helmet, chest, legs, gauntlets, and greaves.

Hebrew Music was always accompanied by singing, dancing and musical instruments.Hebrew people had three kinds of instruments; Percussion, wind, and string instruments.Sackbut or Trigon is string instrument; the sackbut is a lute or lyre as translated in the King James version. In the Revised Standard version it is called trigon. As we know it today it is a kind of brass instrument like the trombone.Flutes/Pipes was an wind instrument; It is the most ancient and simplest of instruments. Originally it was merely a reed with holes perforated at certain distances.

The Hebrew architecture was fairly basic and simple because most Hebrews did not have a lot of money or were merchants and had to constantly be moving.

The merchants usually lived medium to large sized tents so they could pack up and go if needed.The other people also either stayed in tents or very small sundried brick housing.The richer Hebrews had mainly stayed in stone or sundried brick houses that were fairly large and also provided a fair amount of protection from nature and other things.

The Hebrews did not really have a city until they arrived in Canaan. Canaan was also built using sundried brick, sandstone, and simple stone.

Since most of the Hebrew were of Jewish faith there were quite a few ceremonies and rituals that were common and I’ll list a few below.

The Torah describes a skin disease called Sara’ath and this is told to be cured by sacrifice.

Netilat Yadayim Shacharit, this was a ritual of washing the hands directly after waking up from a nap or waking up in the morning and after washing them you had to raise them and recite a blessing.

Another extremely common ceremony was simply attending church which was common because Hebrews were known for their Jewish churches.

The Hebrews existed from 2000 BCE to present day. This civilization occurred in Canaan and the Babylonian area.

It made the contributions of a major religion in the world today.

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