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To: Friend_Or_Foe
>Bump... Also "Hapiru".

"About the 10th century BC ... the name Hebrew came into existance. It designated peoples ... who later became ... the Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites and Israelites".

...this is about the same time the Phoenician alphabet ... came into use. The Phoenicians ... generally were tall men with red hair and blue eyes, not Mediterranean people... Phoenician means "red-headed men".

90 posted on 02/09/2002 4:20:29 PM PST by DensaMensa
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