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Not very responsive, but thanks anyway.
If you read The Hebrew Scriptures, it tells you flat out who and what we are. My explanation to you is from the Old Testament. Before there were “Jews,” which only references the tribe of Judah, there were Hebrews.
After the Exodus, all of the races and ethnicities that left with the Hebrews were shaped and reshaped as ONE People. HaIvri. The People.
It includes ALL the tribes and ALL those who gave their oral, verbal commitment to HaShem, ONE G-d, ONE people, while wandering in the desert. They included people from all over the world who left Egypt with the Hebrews.
There were NO Jews then.