Summary of Howard Fast's The Jews

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#1 The Desert tribes were herdsmen, and their wealth was in sheep and goats. They moved often, from one sparse pasture to another, from one water hole to another. Their community was tribal, and their chief was the patriarch of the tribe, the ruler absolute, the dispenser of justice and lord of life and death.

#2 The Israelites were a collection of tribes that lived in the Sinai Peninsula. They were constantly looking over their shoulders at the pastures of Eden, which were well guarded by powerful cities and disciplined armies.

#3 The Beni-Yisrael were shepherds who grazed their herds upon the land of milk and honey, but they were not strangers to it. They had touched and rested on places that were sacred to them, and they had built stone altars for worship.

#4 Without Moses, the Jews are unthinkable. He was the Jew, and in due course this will be explained. Moses was the Jew, and he stepped into history as the Jew.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822519282

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Desert tribes were herdsmen, and their wealth was in sheep and goats. They moved often, from one sparse pasture to another, from one water hole to another. Their community was tribal, and their chief was the patriarch of the tribe, the ruler absolute, the dispenser of justice and lord of life and death.

#2

The Israelites were a collection of tribes that lived in the Sinai Peninsula. They were constantly looking over their shoulders at the pastures of Eden, which were well guarded by powerful cities and disciplined armies.

#3

The Beni-Yisrael were shepherds who grazed their herds upon the land of milk and honey, but they were not strangers to it. They had touched and rested on places that were sacred to them, and they had built stone altars for worship.

#4

Without Moses, the Jews are unthinkable. He was the Jew, and in due course this will be explained. Moses was the Jew, and he stepped into history as the Jew.

#5

The Bible states that Moses was a prince of the Egyptian royal house, and that he led his people out of Egypt at the command of the Egyptian gods. However, the word leper is a mis translation. The meaning of Manetho’s label was unclean, and was applied to those Moses led.

#6

The Levites, who were led by Moses, were not monotheists. They had many gods, and they were not exclusive to the Beni-Yisrael tribes. The Jews eventually became monotheists, and their concept of God joined to man was not developed until centuries later.

#7

The Bible is extremely confusing when it comes to the different gods the Beni-Yisrael worshiped. When Moses sees the burning bush, he is told that the Lord Yahweh is in it, but the modern concept of angels did not exist back then.

#8

The Levites, the priestly tribe, were not peasants. They were herdsmen, and they had a god who was their God, and they eventually constituted themselves as a tribe of priests because their God conquered all other gods.

#9

The story of Moses and the Israelites is a prime example of how the God of the Old Testament, Yahweh, is a volcano that must be feared. He is a god who lives on a mountain, and his location has been forgotten except for it being in Sinai.

#10

The Yehudim were the tribes that were led by Judah, and they were the ones who venerated