[Just mythoughts]

I just skimmmmmed through Genesis and Abraham was born in modern day Iraq but he was called Hebrew. You must be using a different Bible than I have.

[xzins]

If he was born in modern day Iraq, then he was an Iraqi .... using modern day “anchor baby” standards, a point that I was careful to make. Reread my post, and see if it’s not there.

The ‘Abiru, iirc, were a nomadic people, and if Abraham is the original one, then that is a designation that came after his leaving Ur of the Chaldees, the area that apparently was his home. After all, didn’t he send his servant to obtain his son’s wife from among his own people?

We’re not using different bibles. We’re probably just looking at different things.

[Cronos]

I just skimmmmmed through Genesis and Abraham was born in modern day Iraq but he was called Hebrew.

he was called a Habiru in Egypt, a nomad. Where was Abraham's lineage from? From what is now Iraq (a country that only existed from the 1920s), from the land of Mesopotamia. The Amorites (SEmitic peoples) had invaded Sumeria about 2000 odd BC and Abraham was one of those. The "Hebrews" as a sub-branch of the Amorites were descendents of Abraham through Isaac-Jacob, Edomites through Isaac-Esau. The Midianites were descendents through Kethurah, the Bedouins through Ishmael, Moabites and through Abraham's cousin. Even the Canaanites were semitic peoples who spoke a similar early semitic language to Hebrew.