But without due research or examination you accepted Josephus' word for it when he ascribed HEBER as the origin of the

word HEBREW. Because of that, now,  the Encyclopedia Britannica defines a Hebrew as "Any member of an ancient Semitic people that were ancestors of the Jews. Biblical scholars use the term Hebrews to designate the descendants of the patriarchs of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) --- i.e., Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (also called Israel [Genesis 33:28]) --- from that period until their conquest of Canaan (Palestine) in the late 2nd millennium BCE. Thenceforth these people are referred to as Israelites until their return from the Babylonian Exile, from which time on they became known as Jews. In the Bible the patriarch Abraham is referred to a single time as the ivri , which is the singular form of the Hebrew language word for Hebrew (plural ivrim , or ibrim ). But the term Hebrew almost always occur in the Hebrew Bible as a name given to the Israelites by other peoples, rather than used by themselves. For that matter, the origins of the term Hebrew itself are uncertain. It could be derived from the word eber , or ever , a Hebrew word meaning the "other side" and conceivably referring again to Abraham, who crossed into the land of Canaan from the "other side" of the Euphrates or Jordan River. The name Hebrew could also be related to the seminomadic Habiru people who are recorded in Egyptian inscriptions of the 13th and 12th centuries BCE as having settled in Egypt." 

 

But HEBER was just a red-herring, a cunning alternate to an Apiru/Habiru origin. Yet this fiction has major holes in it, mainly because it fails to demonstrate how  EBER becomes associated with the idea of  "the other side," "crossing over," or "transiting from one region to another.".  Let's analyze this.  HEBER lived 134 years and begat Phaleg, then another 270 years afterward; a total of 404 years (Gen. 11: 16). Phaleg begets Ragau at age 130 (Gen. 11:18).  Ragau begets Seruch at 132 (Gen. 11:20).  Seruch begets Nachor at 130 (Gen. 11:22).  Nachor begets Tharrha at 179 (Gen. 11:24).  As the figures show, HEBER died 251 years before Tharrha was born; the very same Tharrha who, according to Gen. 11:31, took Abram, Lot, and Sara and "led them out of the land of the Chaldees."  HEBER had no role or connection with this migration whatsoever!

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       [This article was most recently revised and updated by Matt Stefon]].​

I published the above article on June 25th 2022 at 3:30 A.M.   My commentary emended on December 9th, 2023, 12:14 P.M..  

 

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And also, "What would be considered a Hebrew language in the time frame of the biblical Abraham?" His nativity, according to the Bible, is Chaldea [Ur of the Chaldees, per KJV]. So, is Hebrew and Chaldean basically the same language? Or can a Hebrew be categorized as a specific ethnic group with its own peculiar language? Now, if Hebrew was the name given to Abraham by other  people [in this case the Amorites of Canaan], then it could not refer to a Hebrew word that meant the "other side", but to a word with origins in the Amorite language! Therefore, if Hebrew simply refers to one who has crossed over from the "other side", anybody  who crosses over the Euphrates or Jordan River into the land of Canaan can be classified as a Hebrew, without any particular ethnic connotation! Thus the word Hebrew is what we would define in contemporary terms as a "Migrant". Which is exactly what the term Habiru [Egyptn 'Apiru ] implied in ancient Canaan and Egypt. Exactly  the same way it is translated in the LXX!  And if the modern Jews wish to disassociate themselves from the Habiru, I can understand it. It's just like the modern American Black Person (when formerly categorized as  Negro ) took  offense to being called a Nigga!  And if the reader of this is a true Initiate I need not say anything further.   

 

7/7/2022. More than a week has passed since I published the above, more than enough time to engage in some critical thinking. Did you find the answers to your questions? And were you also aware of the fact that there was no such thing as an Abraham from Ur of the Chaldees . It's an anachronism. And, on top of that, a partial allegory as well (Gal 4:24).

 

7/15/2022. Where are we?: Hebrew is not an endonym. Chaldea, in the context in which it is used in reference to Abraham, is an anachronism. So what about Ur? According to Encyclopedia Britannica, it was a city of ancient southern Mesopotamia (Sumer). So, if Abraham was actually  born there, it would make him a Sumerian  at least. Yet, after applying the Parable Of The Ren, what would remain, after a thorough process of elimination, is the mere myth from which the term Semite is derived. What  we have been taught is dogma from a Biblio-Centric mode of authoritarianism, whereby the myth has succeeded in usurping reality, and propaganda in superseding actual history. The Profane, as a consequence of this, are experiencing the calculated aftereffects of ancient Priestcraft:  a state of self-perpetuating DELUSION!