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  Hebrews - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Interestingly some Habiru names listed on the Tikunani Prism are Hurrian, while other names associated with the Habiru have Hittite or Amorite onomastics.
Most Hebrews were likely a branch of Canaanites that clung to the older religious preferences of El at the head of the pantheon, rather than his son, Adad.
The Habiru prism of King Tunip-Teßßup of Tikunani.
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 Encyclopedia: Habiru
Tikunani was a small city-state in Mesopotamia which thrived around the middle of the second millennium BC.
Tikunani is best-known for a cuneiform document from the reign of Tunip-Teššup (a Hurrian-named king, contemporaneous with Hattusili I of the Hittites, around 1550 BC) containing a list of...
The Habiru name list on the Tikunani Prism (from Mesopotamia, about 1550 BC) indicates they were originally nothing more than a wandering tribe of Hurrians, but some argue for the disappearance of this ethnic distinction at a very early stage making them a non-exclusive ethnic group.
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 hebrews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In the Levant, Hebrews spoke a local Canaanite dialect (see Hebrew language) though the ancestral proto-Hebrews around present day Urfa or 'Ur of the Khaldis', from whence the Hebrew Patriarch Abram came, dwelt amidst the Hurrians.
Interestingly Habiru names listed on the Tikunani Prism are also Hurrian.
Though important in some Christian theologies, the distinction is not recognized by the Jews themselves who still call themselves Hebrews in Hebraic.
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 Read about Hebrews at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Hebrews and learn about Hebrews here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Tiberian Hebrew ʿIḇriyyîm) were who lived in Syria, Palestine, and Canaan and as far as present day Egypt and Kuwait in the
Tikunani Prism are Hurrian, while other names associated with the
Mari documents, academic scholars now believe the term we know as Hebrew originally meant a stateless individual or tribe, which didn't pay taxes or tribute to a ruler as such.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page : T/TI/TIK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Its latitude is 71.63 degrees N and its longitude is 128.87 degrees E. Tikunani
Tikunani is best-known for a cuneiform document from the reign of Tunip-Teššup (a Hurrian-named king, contemporaneous with Hattusili I of the Hittites, around 1550 BC) containin..
The discovery of this prism generated substantial excitement, for it brought much-neede..
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The Tikunani Prism is an eight and a half inch square clay artifact with an Akkadian cuneiform inscription listing the names of the Habiru soldiers of King Tunip-Teššup of Tikunani,
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 Hebrews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
They are most commonly identified in contemporary records of neighbouring regions as Hurrian mercenaries called Habiru apparently based in the valley of Habur between the Euphrates and Tigris.
In the Levant, Hebrews spoke a local Canaanite dialect (see Hebrew language)though the ancestral proto-Hebrews around present day Urfa or 'Ur of the Khaldis', from whence the Hebrew Patriarch Abram came, dwelt amidst the Hurrians.Interestingly Habiru names listed on the Tikunani Prism are alsoHurrian.
Many Hebrews were originally Canaanites who gradually distinguished themselves based upon a religious difference by adoptingHurrian themes like the specific biblical version of the story of Noah.
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 IBSS - Biblical Archaeology - Evidence of the Exodus from Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
There is a newly discovered prism of a new king named Tunip-Tessup of the kingdom of Tikunani that names a number of Hapiru (438) who were soldiers or servants (Shanks 1996, 22; Salvini 1996).
When this is translated this may give us some more clues to who are the Hapiru.
The Habiru Prism of King Tunip-Tessup of Tikunani.
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 An identification for Tikunani?
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Tuneinir is an urban site along the Khabur River (i= n the Gezira province of Syria) that has an occupation ranging from Ni= nevite V (ca.
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 Amazon.com: The Habiru prism of King Tunip-Tessup of Tikunani (Documenta Asiana): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
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Subject: ane Tikunani/Tuneinir Dear listmembers, Michael Fuller wrote: "Tuneinir is an urban site along the Khabur River (in the Gezira province of Syria) that has an occupation ranging from Ninevite V (ca.
Reading your post made me wonder if the name of Tuneinir might be a corruption of Tikunani." I am sorry, but I can see no relationship between Tuneinir and Tikunani (probably Tigunane).
I am also unable to relate the name Tikunani to any known Hurrian roots.
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 Archaeology Odyssey May/June 2001: Editors Page
The AIA insists that its members pretend that such objects do not exist.
But the prism does exist, and it is an object of great interest: Its cuneiform text mentions an otherwise unknown kingdom, Syrian Tikunani.
The text is mainly a list of names, mostly Hurrian, possibly suggesting that its king,
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 Habiru by Lucy Price   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
See the discussion below in the section Relevance for the Old Testament for more details.
The most recent discovery is on a carved prism from King Tunip-Tessup of Tikunani, a small kingdom located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the middle of the second millennium BC.
This prism contains names of servants of the king, who are identified as Habiru.
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 Encyclopedia Overflow pages
The Italian cuneiform specialist, Professor Mirjo Salvini, translated the cuneiform text of an 8 ½ inch tall square prism of unknown provenance but judged to be authentic.
On the bottom is a colophon, which describes the prisms contents: a list of 438 workers who served king Tunip-Teššup of the kingdom of Tikunani probably located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
The name of the month used to date the baked clay document is Babylonian.
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