historically who were the first people in jerusalem, the muslims or the jews?

Question

is there any historically proof for either group. and the torah and koran are not historical so i dont want examples from either book.

Answer 1

The Canaanites, then it was the Israelites. After Israel was divided into 2 kingdoms The people of the kingdom of Judah known as Judahites were the next ones their.

Answer 2

While David took possession of Jerusalem in 1000 BCE, the city was already occupied and clearly had earlier roots. "At the time of the Davidic occupation, Jerusalem was already two thousand years old. Its original inhabitants were not Jews but Canaanites, Amorites, Jebusites, Hittites and other races each of whom had a culture and language as well as art, industry and agriculture." See below for the full text of the interesting article.
For reference, the books of Kings and Chronicles are very accurate historical documents.
It is interesting to know that Abraham came to the city some 1000 years before.
A good book on the subject is Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths, (Alfred Knopf, New York, 1996) by Karen Armstrong.
Most interesting is the prophet Zechariah who talks about the end times when all peoples shall wrestle with Jerusalem. You didn't want Biblical examples, at least you know it's there.(Zech 12:3)

Answer 3

The Torah actually IS historical, since anyone at the time could have said, "you don't live in Jerusalem!" since it was written at that time. Anyway, it was the Jews...

Answer 4

Historically, no one can know, because the first people there were millions of years ago before written history.

Basically, trying to tie a place on the earth to a religion is just plain idiocy.

Answer 5

The Jebusites occupied the city prior to David taking it in 1004 BC. According to tradition, they had a covenant with Abraham that his people would not take the city against the will of the people. Joab first destroyed the engraved bronze agreement and then David occupied the city.

Answer 6

Semitic tribes who are called Arabs. Some of them were Jews. Islam came centuries after Judaism. Jews lived in Israel long before Muslims came along.

Answer 7

They were both late arrivals. We know little of the original population except that they were expelled by later groups including the Jews, Musilims and Christians

Answer 8

Well, since Islam wasn't even founded until the 6th Century and the Jews have been in Jerusalem since before Christ.......

Answer 9

The Jews were there first, seeing as how the Muslims faith came about in the 12th century.

Answer 10

It could be in all its probability the Jews, since muslim faith had originated very late in 12th century or so. After all, what does it matter?