Originala Chananaia Hebreoj, La Habiru

Tradition sometimes differ from fact & truth. The Amarna Letters along with many other cuneiform writings shine a great deal of light on the time of Abraham in Afro-Asiatic Retjenu. Let's start with the two stelae at Memphis and Karnak, Thutmose III's son Amenhotep II boasts of having made 89,600 prisoners in his campaign in Canaan (around 1420 BC), including "127 princes and 179 nobles of Retenu, 3600 Apiru, 15,200 Shasu, 36,600 Hurrians", etc. This shows that the words "Israelite" & "Hebrew" are not synonymous, since we now know the Shasu of Ywh were the Pre-Israelites and the Apiru were the Paleo-Hebrews. So when seeking the actual truth of God, one must research the true origins of The Word. This simple fact has led us to the city of Alalakh.

Founded by the Amorites (in the territory of present-day Turkey) during the Middle Bronze Age in the 2nd millennium BC. The first palace was built c. 2000 BC, contemporary with the Third Dynasty of Ur. The written history of the site may begin under the name Alakhtum, with tablets from Mari in the 18th century BC, when the city was part of the kingdom of Yamhad (modern Aleppo). A dossier of tablets records that King Sumu-Epuh sold the territory of Alakhtum to his son-in-law Zimri-Lim, king of Mari, retaining for himself overlordship. After the fall of Mari in 1765 BC, Alalakh seems to have come under the rule of Yamhad again. King Abba-El I of Aleppo bestowed it upon his brother Yarim-Lim, to replace the city of Irridu. Abba-El had destroyed the latter after it revolted against his brother Yarim-Lim. A dynasty of Yarim-Lim's descendents was founded, under the hegemony of Aleppo, that lasted to the 16th century. According to the short chronology found at Mari, at that time Alalakh was destroyed, most likely by Hittite king Hattusili I, in the second year of his campaigns.

After a hiatus of less than a century, written records for Alalakh resume. At this time, it was again the seat of a local dynasty. Most of the information about the founding of this dynasty comes from a statue inscribed with what seems to be an autobiography of the dynasty's founding king.

In the mid-14th century BC, the Hittite Suppiluliuma I defeated king Tushratta of Mitanni and assumed control of northern Syria, then including Alalakh, which he incorporated into the Hittite Empire. A tablet records his grant of much of Mukish's land (that is, Alalakh's) to Ugarit, after the king of Ugarit alerted the Hittite king to a revolt by the kingdoms of Mukish, Nuhassa, and Niye. The city of Alalakh was probably destroyed by invading Sea People in the 12th century BC, as were many other cities of coastal Anatolia and the Levant. But the Habiru band from Alalakh mixed with that same invading Sea People (Peleset Maropopolon). As a result grew in strength and became the 'El' worshipping Chananaia Hebrews (biblically labeled: Jebusites) whom already inhabited Afro-Asiatic Canaan from Shechem to Urusalim and beyond.

The earliest recorded instance of the term 'Habiru' is dated to the reign of King Irkabtum of the north Syrian (Amorite) kingdom of Yamkhad (1740 bce), who had a year named "Year when king Irkabtum made peace with Semuma and the Habiru." This is proof that the Habiru (led by Semuma) already wielded such influence in the neighborhood of Alalakh that the local sovereign felt obliged to sign a treaty with them. The Tikunani Prism dated from around 1550 bce lists the names of 438 Habiru soldiers of King Tunip-Tessup of Tikunani (a small city-state in central Mesopotamia), the majority of these are mostly Hurrian, the rest are Semitic, one is Kassite. Another text from approx. 1500 bce describes the Habiru as soldiers, organized into bands of various sizes: one band from Tapduwa has 15 soldiers, another from Sarkuhe has 29, and another from Alalakh has 1,436 soldiers. An Old Assyrian merchant in Alishar requests aid in freeing/ransoming some Habiru formerly associated with the palace of Shalahshuwe, now prisoners of the local authorities.

But the Sumerian logogram "SA.GAZ" (Apiru/Habiru) appears in text from Southern Mesopotamia dated from approximately 1850 bce, where it is applied to small bands of soldiers, apparently mercenaries at the service of local city-states and being supplied with food or sheep. The small bands grew in population and influence, then spread throughout West Asia. The independent band of SA.GAZ warriors from Alalakh may have worshipped at "Ventro Monteto" (Turkish: 'Gobekli Tepe') in Anatolion. The Ugaritic god "Saduq" (Northwestern Semitic "S-d-q" is the forerunner of the Phoenician "Sydyk") became "Zedek", an epithet of the god El.

The word 'Hebrew' (‘ibrî) translates to “one who crosses (from place to place), a transient, a nomad”. The root is ‘ābar, in its transitive sense, "to cross", in its intransitive sense, "to be a crosser, a transient, a nomad". Eber (‘ēber) goes back to a earlier form ‘abir(u). The exact equivalent of ‘abir(u), ‘ēber and ‘ibrî in cuneiform is habiru/habirū.

Many people did not know Canaan was first called Phoenicia. Kinahni ("Canaan") is synonymous with Kinahhi ("Phoenicia"). The Hebrews were a mixed group of Phoenicians. Sanchoniatho's Phoenician History Book (published in 1720) says on page 44, "...its clear that the fragment of our Author ends with the sending of Thot the son of Misor, into Egypt, to govern there and occasionally mentions Cnaa (Kn'n), who is known to be Canaan, Mizraim's brother, as the first Phoenician". Canaan is used three times in the New Testament: twice in Acts when paraphrasing Old Testament stories, and once in the Exorcism of the Syrophoenician woman's daughter. The latter story is told by both Matthew and Mark; Matthew uses the term Chananaia (Χαναναία), where Mark calls the woman Syrophoenician (Συροφοινίκισσα). Strong's Concordance describes the term "Chananaia" as "Phoenician", in the time of Jesus Christ". One of the 613 mitzvot (precisely n. 596) prescribes that no inhabitants of the cities of six Canaanite nations be left alive (see 'Deuteronomy 7:1' for list), except for the Girgashites. So it is highly possible and most likely, that the Girgashites were the last of the true Hebrews.

The invading Edomite Jews killed the Chananaia-Hebrew inhabitants.