kuku and Hebrew culture

A COMPARATIVE STUDY of THE KUKU CULTURE and THE HEBREW CULTURE:
M.M.NINAN
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20. War
War between other tribes are accepted as norm. Killing another tribesman is considered
as murder. Intertribal wars for the sake of looting and for women are common. However
they never took slaves as war loot. A war prisoner is either killed or released or accepted
into the community and is never taken in as a slave. Slavery came to these parts only arts
the Arab conquests. Such an attitude can be found through out the old testament period.
Thus we see Samuel hacking don Kings of other nations, and David, the man after the
heart of God massacring men , women and children. Read 1 Sam. 21:8-1 "Now David
and his men went up, and made raids Upon the Geewires, the Birzites and the
Amalekttes ..... And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, but took
away the sheep, the oxen, the asses, the camels and the garments." Description of
massive raid for women is found in Judges 21 where the whole Israelites took part in the
raid of Shiloh for wives for the Benjaminites.
21.The Problem.
We have shown in the preceding portions the great similarity between the cultures of the
Kukus of the Sour Sudan (and since they are representative of all other cultures of the
region) and therefore of the Southern Sudanese culture: and that of the Hebrew
(especially of the period of Judges). These similarities extends to their concept of God,
man an, angels and in their details of levitical practices and in their social and economic
practices. Now the question remains How did this happen?
The first possibility is that it could be an accident. The geographic similarity could be a
possible explanation. But this, could not explain the vast similarity. The similarity cannot
be accidental even with the little environmental similarity f~ farming techniques and
seasons.
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