Footnote yuh0

yuh0. The word Hebrew appears to refer to Bedouin-style raiders. It is found in an Egyptian text from Armana as Apiru = bandits. The word habiru in cunieform inscriptions refers to bandits, intruders, raiders from the unsettled wastelands into areas settled by Hittites, early Babylonians and Hurrians. Note that hunter-gatherers and pastoralists have traditionally been seen as dangerous raiders, from long before the time of Zoroaster to the incursions of Genghis Khan to the days of the "Old West."

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