Ivri: naming ourselves.

Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought | January 1, 2005| | Copyright

WE THINK OF OURSELVES AS JEWS, AS OTHERS AND WE NOW call us--Yehudim, from our ancestor, Judah, Yehudah. The Bible, however, has other names for us beginning with [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] Hebrew and Israelite, from [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] the children of Israel as Jacob came to be called. Names are powerful markers. These names--[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (Ivri, Hebrew), [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (yehudi) and [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (Ben Yisra'el, an Israelite) are often used as synonyms, [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] probably being ...

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