Dubious History of Hebrews
Judaists or Hebrews did not enjoy uninterrupted independence for a very long and continuous period in the ancient world.
Roughly speaking, they built a real independent kingdom around 1200 BC but they were conquered by Babylonians around 600 BC and taken to Babylon as captives. Though they could return to Palestine in 538 BC, Hebrews were put under rule of Persians and then successors of Alexander the Great till 160 BC. In 63 BC, Roman general Pompey and his troops invaded Judea. Hebrews lost independence. Since then Judaists were virtually subject to Rome though they had nominal king till 6 CE when Judea was made a Roman province.
So, put simply, in 2000 years before the emergence of Christ Jesus, Judaists were an independent nation only for 700 years. Especially, in 1000 years since the era of King David, they enjoyed independence only for 500 years.
Israelites never conquered Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and other regions around the Mediterranean Sea except part of Palestine in the pre-Christian world. And for 2000 years in the Christian Era, they had almost nothing to do with Palestine till 1948.
Judaists belong to their holy books more than to Palestine of today.
In addition, Christ Jesus did not tell, 2000 years ago, Isaelites to fight and defeat Romans in order to secure complete independence.
It is very dubious that Judaists have inherent right to occupy Palestine today.
1.1 Prehistory
Between 2.6 and 0.9 million years ago, at least four episodes of hominine dispersal from Africa to the Levant are known, each culturally distinct. The flint tool artifacts of these early humans have been discovered on the territory of the current state of Israel, including, at Yiron, the oldest stone tools found anywhere outside Africa.
1.2 Egyptian rule
During the 2nd millennium BC, Canaan, part of which later became known as Israel, was dominated by Egypt.
1.3 Early Israelites
The first record of the name Israel (as ysrỉꜣr) occurs in the Merneptah stele, erected for Egyptian Pharaoh Merneptah c. 1209 BCE, "Israel is laid waste and his seed is not."[7] William Dever sees this "Israel" in the central highlands as a cultural and probably political entity, more an ethnic group rather than an organized state.
1.4 Israel and Judah
The Hebrew Bible describes constant warfare between the Jews and other tribes, including the Philistines, whose capital was Gaza. The Bible states that King David founded a dynasty of kings and that his son Solomon built a Temple. No material evidence indisputably of Solomon's reign has been found.
Around 930 BCE, the kingdom split into a southern Kingdom of Judah and a northern Kingdom of Israel.
1.5 Babylonian rule 586–538 BCE
In 586 BCE King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon conquered Judah. According to the Hebrew Bible, he destroyed Solomon's Temple and exiled the Jews to Babylon.
2 Classical era (538 BCE–636 CE)
2.1 Persian and Hellenistic rule 538–160 BCE
In 538 BCE, Cyrus the Great of Persia conquered Babylon and took over its empire. Cyrus issued a proclamation granting subjugated nations (including the people of Judah) religious freedom (for the original text see the Cyrus Cylinder). According to the Hebrew Bible 50,000 Judeans, led by Zerubabel, returned to Judah and rebuilt the temple. A second group of 5,000, led by Ezra and Nehemiah, returned to Judah in 456 BCE although non-Jews wrote to Cyrus to try to prevent their return.
2.2 Hasmonean dynasty 160–37 BCE
The Hasmonean dynasty of (Jewish) priest-kings ruled Judea with the Pharisees, Saducees and Essenes as the principal Jewish social movements.
In 125 BCE the Hasmonean King John Hyrcanus subjugated Edom and forcibly converted the population to Judaism.[28] In 64 BCE the Roman general Pompey conquered Syria and intervened in the Hasmonean civil war in Jerusalem. In 47 BCE the lives of Julius Caesar and his protege Cleopatra were saved by 3,000 crack Jewish troops sent by King Hyrcanus II and commanded by Antipater, whose descendants Caesar made kings of Judea.[
2.3 Herodian kingdom 37 BCE–6 CE
From 37 BCE to 6 CE, the Herodian dynasty, Jewish-Roman client kings, descended from Antipater, ruled Judea. Herod the Great considerably enlarged the temple (see Herod's Temple), making it one of the largest religious structures in the world.
2.4 Roman rule 6–390
Judea was made a Roman province in 6 CE, following the transition of Judean tetrarchy into a Roman realm. Following the next decades, though prosperous, the society suffered increasing tensions between Greco-Roman and Judean populations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Israel#Prehistory
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