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Appendix 5: A History of The Jewish People<br />

the patriarchs (Saul, David, Solomon, etc.) were written<br />

down. (These writings have not survived – probably<br />

because Jews were still illiterate and the first five books of<br />

the Christian Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible or the<br />

Torah or the Pentateuch were written much later and<br />

backdated to claim an older origin.) Inscriptions dating<br />

back to 10 th century BCE have been claimed to support<br />

the theory that early Jews were literate. Some of these<br />

inscriptions are in Phoenician script ‡ . The few that are<br />

supposed to be in Hebrew are undecipherable <strong>for</strong> most<br />

Hebrew scholars. Some fanatics have found 3000-year-old<br />

Hebrew inscriptions even in the United States! † ) In 922<br />

BCE, ten tribes to the north rebelled and Jewish<br />

settlements were divided into two - Israel in the north and<br />

Judea in the south. In 721 BCE, the neighbouring<br />

Assyrian kingdom (Upper Tigris or northern Iraq), on their<br />

way to invade Egypt, destroyed Israel. Some Assyrian<br />

documents claim that 27,290 Israelis were carried off by<br />

the conquerors. These Jews eventually got assimilated<br />

among the inhabitants of Mesopotamia (eastern Syria,<br />

south-eastern Turkey, and most of Iraq). Jewish tradition<br />

claims these people as the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel. In 612<br />

BCE, Judah was destroyed by Babylonia (central and<br />

southern Iraq) as part of King Nebuchadnezzar takeover of<br />

Assyria. The Babylonians destroyed the (mythical/humble)<br />

Temple of Solomon and took prominent residents of<br />

Judah in chains to Babylonia. (In Babylonia, Jews came in<br />

126 <strong>World</strong> Government Slave Handbook

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