Which nation has the strongest roots of our planet?Perhaps this question is relevant for any historian.And almost every one of them respond with confidence - the Jewish people.Despite the fact that humanity inhabits the earth for hundreds of thousands of years, their story we know, at best, in the last twenty centuries of our era and about the same BC.e.
But the history of the Jewish people goes back much earlier.All events in it are closely intertwined with religion and are in constant persecution.
first mention
Despite their considerable age, the first mention of Jews originate from the time of the Egyptian pharaohs pyramid structures.As for the records themselves, the history of the Jewish people from ancient times to the beginning of its first representative - Abraham.The son of Shem (which, in turn, is the son of Noah), he was born in the vast Mesopotamia.
as an adult, Abraham moved to Canaan, where he met with the local population exposed to spiritual decay.It is here that God takes under his wing this husband and contract with them, thereby putting its mark on him and his descendants.It is from this moment begins the events described in the Gospel story, which is so rich in history of the Jewish people.Briefly, it consists of the following periods:
- Bible;
- ancient;
- antique;
- medieval;
- new time (including the Holocaust and the return of Jews to Israel).
Moving to Egypt
the land of Canaan, Abraham to start a family, he has a son, Isaac, and from him - Jacob.The latter, in turn, born Joseph - a bright new figure in the evangelical stories.Betrayed by his brothers, he gets to Egypt as a slave.Still, he managed to free themselves from slavery and, moreover, be an approximation of the pharaoh.This phenomenon (finding a miserable slave in the retinue of the supreme ruler) promotes the kind of narrow-mindedness of the Pharaoh (Hyksos) who came to the throne in view of the heinous and cruel acts that caused the overthrow of the last dynasty.This genus is also known as the Pharaohs-herders.Once in power, Joseph carries his father to Egypt with his family.So begins the strengthening of the Jews in a certain area, which contributes to their rapid reproduction.
Home persecution
history of the Jewish people in the Bible shows them as peaceful herdsmen engaged solely in the business and not meddle in politics, despite the fact that the dynasty of the Hyksos sees them as worthy allies, giving them the best land and the rest needed foreconomy conditions.Prior to entering the race Egypt totaled twelve tribes of Jacob (the twelve tribes), which under the auspices of the pharaohs, the shepherds grew to a whole ethnic group with its own culture.
Next Jewish history tells of the deplorable times for him.From Thebes to the capital of the Egyptian army comes to overthrow the self-styled Pharaoh, and establish the rule of a true dynasty.This she soon turns.From the massacre of the favorites of the Hyksos they still abstain, but turning them into slaves.Long years of slavery and humiliation of the Jews suffer (210 years of slavery in Egypt) until the arrival of Moses.
Moses and the withdrawal of Jews from Egypt
history of the Jewish people in the Old Testament shows Moses as a descendant of an ordinary family.At the time, the Egyptian authorities are not seriously alarmed by the growing Jewish population, and the decree was issued - to kill everyone born in the family of the boy slaves.Miraculously surviving, Moses goes to the daughter of Pharaoh, which adopts it.So the young man is in pravyaschuey family, where he opens all the mysteries of the Board.Nevertheless, he remembers his roots, that begins to torture him.He becomes unbearable how the Egyptians treated with his brethren.One day Moses pleasure kills the overseer, who severely beat a servant.But it turns out the same faithful servant, causing it to flee, and of forty hermit in the mountains.It was there that he had been approached by the decree of God to lead his people out of the land of Egypt, with Moses giving unprecedented powers.
Further events include a variety of miracles that Moses demonstrates Pharaoh, demanding the release of his people.Do not come to an end and after they exit the Jews from Egypt.The history of the Jewish people for Children (Gospel stories) shows them as:
- ten plagues of Egypt;
- flow of the river before Moses;
- loss manna from heaven;
- split the rock and the formation of a waterfall in it and more.
After the release of the Jews from the power of Pharaoh, their goal becomes land of Canaan, which are reserved to them by God.It was there and sent Moses and his followers.
Education Israeli
Forty years later, Moses dies.Directly in front of the walls of Canaan, which sends its power to Joshua.Those seven years gaining one Canaanite principality after another.In the occupied territories and Israel has formed (in Hebrew "theomachist").Next Jewish history tells the story of the formation of the city - as the capital of the Jewish land, and the center of the world.On his throne there are such well-known personalities, Saul, David, Solomon, and many others.It erected a huge temple, which the Babylonians demolish and which restored again after the liberation of the Jews wise Persian king of Crete.
Israel is divided into two states: Israel and Judea, which subsequently capture and demolish the Assyrians and Babylonians.
As a result, after a few centuries after the conquest of Canaan by Joshua land, the Jewish people disperses throughout the earth, lost his home.
subsequent time
After the collapse of Judah and Jerusalem of Jewish history has several branches.And almost every one of them comes to our times.Perhaps no one hand, wherever the Jews went after the loss of the promised land, as there is no country in our time where there would be no Jewish diaspora.
And in each state met "people of God" in different ways.If America they were automatically equal rights with the indigenous population, the closer to the Russian border were waiting for the mass persecution and humiliation.The history of the Jewish people in Russia is about pogroms since Cossack raids and ending with the Holocaust during World War II.
It was only in 1948, the year by the decision of the United Nations, the Jews returned to their "historical homeland" - Israel.
