Who Are the Hebrews? (A Practical Approach)
In this post I'm going to use some terms that are familiar to almost everyone yet due to overuse, interchangeability and in some cases I would say an attempt to intentionally cause confusion have somewhat ambiguous meanings. However for the sake of this article I'm going to define specifically what I mean when I refer to each, and I think in general these definitions are in agreement with how most people understand them: Hebrew - a direct biological descendant of the Biblical patriarch Abraham . For a person to prove they came directly from Abraham - or any human being who lived thousands of years ago - is virtually impossible , but apparently some can still make stake such a claim based on their land of ancestry ( Palestine ) and oral tradition. Israelite - a descendant of Abraham who has/had accepted and practiced Mosaic Law , especially if such a person lived in Palestine . Also a foreigner who practiced Mosaic Law, specifically one who lived amongst the Israelite...