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 Hebrews
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.
The Habiru prism of King Tunip-Teßßup of Tikunani.
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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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