The ten essays assembled in this volume represent the fruit of
fifty years of research and study in the fields of Jewish history
and World history. They show that the Jewish people has played a
progressive role in world history, a role which grew out of the
political culture of the Habiru.
Mentioned in literally hundreds of cuneiform inscriptions dating
from the 2nd millenium BCE, the Habiru formed scattered bands of
runaway slaves and other fugitives who maintained themselves on the
outskirts of the settled areas of the Middle East. Constituting a
social class rather than an extended family, they were nonetheless
the founders of the ancient Jewish nation whose origins are
depicted in a legendary form in the Hebrew Scriptures. It was their
egalitarian value system which was handed down to posterity by the
Jewish people.
In this way there arose a process which has continued unto this
day: on the one hand the gradual incorporation of progressive
Jewish values into world culture, but on the other hand the
relentless persecution of the Jewish people by the forces of
tyranny and injustice. In today's world this process takes the form
of the struggle to survive of the democratic state of Israel in the
face of the united opposition of autocratic forces everywhere.
Written at different times over the course of the past 15 years
or so, each of the ten essays in this volume addresses a different
aspect of this process. Taken together they cast a bright light on
the truth of Jewish history and the Jewish people.
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