unless you mean the fictional Hebrews in the book rather than the collection of tribes the Romans diaspora'd many, many centuries later.
I mean the Israelites! That's what these people, whose historicity is not in doubt, called themselves. They're the ones that wrote the bulk of the biblical material between around 900 and 587 BCE.
The Massacre of St. Barthelemy...
Maybe, though this strikes me as conjecture. I also don't see how it's related to claims you seem to be making about the authors of the bible and their people.
You know what, get back to me on the historicity of Hebrews after reading this. I'm not adverse to shifting my priors on that topic; please refer me to a work that does not refer to the Bible as a starting point for its hypotheses, if that's at all possible.
Until I have a Bible-independent framework on how to think of the ethnic conglomerate that claim to be the Descent of Israel, I prefer to assume it is all fiction as a working hypothesis, and start from there.
This is why also why I am reticent to call them Israelites, despite them calling themselves som...
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