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Appendix 5: A History of The Jewish People
Located at the crossroads of great empires in Asia, Africa
and Europe, Palestine found itself in the path of armies of
great empires marching across to invade a neighbouring
kingdoms. Enterprising Jews would follow these armies to
pick up prisons of war. Thus, the economy of Jews was
overwhelming based on assassination, robbery, slave
trading and prostitution. This put early them in conflict
with other settlers (such as the Philistines after whom
Palestine is named) and neighbouring kingdoms.
The Hebrew Bible considers this period as one of great
glory and accomplishment. Religious scholars have dated
various events in this period. Sometime in the 13 th century
BCE, Jews were herded by the two-horned prophet Moses
from Egypt en route to Palestine. Once in Palestine, they
came into conflict with their predecessors. (Jews called
these peoples as Canaanites and Philistines. Palestinian
Arabs today say Canaanites/Philistines were their
ancestors.
Before Canaanites, the Akkadian empire flourished in this
region.) The Jews were supposed to have been organised
as 12 independent tribes who came together under King
Saul. Saul and David after him defeated the
Canaanites/Philistines in 1000 BCE. Solomon, originally a
shepherd, became a king and presided over a period of
great wealth and splendour. In 950 BCE, he built his
namesake temple in Jerusalem. It was in Solomon's time
that the oral traditions of the Jews involving Moses and
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