I like to know...why the Jews call themselves a Jew...why not a call themselves a Hebrew?

Question

Just one more thing read Exodus 3 verse18

Answer 1

"Jew" actually comes from the name "Judah", which was the ancestral territory left to the people of Isreal after the Kingdoms were torn apart and conqured. The 10 northern tribes became the "Kingdom of Isreal", and the 2 southern tribes became the "Kingdom of Judah".

"Isreal" was couquered by Assyria, and its survivors were deported. Their decendents never returned; instead, people from other countries were moved into the recently conquered territory. These people were the ancestors of the Samaritans and Palestinians of today (some of them).

"Judah" was conquered by Nebuchanezzer of Babylon (modern Iraq), and its survivors were also deported. Unlike "Isreal", the decendents of the deportees (and some of those refugees!) were repatriated 70 years later. The Repatriates settled in what had been "Judah" territory, and the name stuck.

"Hebrew" simply refers to a wandering person, or Nomad.

Answer 2

Its a matter of acceptance. The world called Jews Jews so the Jews adopted it themselves. Once upon a time they would've gone by Hebrews (until officially becoming a Jewish Nation at Sinai) and then Israelites. By the destruction of both temples the hardest to conquer location was Jerusalem in the Kingdom of Judah (there was dual kingship until the end of the first temple after Solomon died) coinciding with the province of Judah (where the tribe dwelled). So after conquering all of Israel the Romans wrote on their coins "Judea was conquered" or something of the like. So the term Judeans came into use and now we have the term Jew.

Answer 3

Hebrew is a name connected to nomadism. The Hebrews were called by that name during their sojourn in the wilderness fleeing from slavery in Egypt and trying to figure out a future in what's today Palestine (at that time Canaan). Many prophets of the Bible lamented the movement from being Hebrews to becoming a monarchy, as the foresaw the establishment of a little fiefdom that would long to be styled after grandiose dreams as if they were Egypt or Babilonia... but I'm speaking of the old pre-modern times.

Answer 4

I think that Hebrew is more like the origin, the Jews genetic background. Judaism is the nation itself and also the religion of the Hebrews.

Since most (and more likely- all) Jews today share a little resemblance to the Hebrews, it is more accepted to call us "Jews".

Answer 5

In ancient times, the term Hebrew was considered offensive to the Jewish people. It was a matter of humility when Jonah, for example, told the sailors he was a Hebrew. That was the same as calling himself a dirty word. I don't know that things would have changed in the Jewish mind from then till now.

Answer 6

you're top. No Jew defines themself as 'non-Messianic'. it somewhat is a term utilized by skill of those Christians who term themselves 'Messianic Jews' and then declare that 'different' Jews are 'non-Messianic'. this is completed so as that they might attempt to declare that they are the 'real' Jews. on condition that their undemanding perception (that Jesus became into the messiah in accordance to the Christian definition of what a messiah might desire to be that's only different from the Jewish definition) is one that is pointed out with the religion time-commemorated as Christianity, their declare that there are those 'different' 'non-Messianic' Jews is in basic terms too absurd. it somewhat is the pastime - you declare to be somebody else and then declare that the individuals who've that id are lacking in some thing which you have further wherein completely distorts, even negates, the unique meaning. Bonkers or what? And confident, you have each top to experience aggravated by skill of individuals who play such idiotic be conscious video games. undergo in thoughts Humpty Dumpty in Alice in the process the finding Glass? He claimed that words meant in spite of he needed them to intend. that's what Messies do. something of the international would not comprehend what on earth they're banging on approximately, yet they insist that their definition of the be conscious is the main remarkable one......

Answer 7

hebrew, from the hebrew word "ever" refers to being "over" something -- either abraham was over the river from the rest of his family, or he passed over to monotheism. However, the people who followed him were called "sons of israel (as israel was jacob and it was his 12 sons who populated the nation). Then, when the 2 kingdoms split up, the kingdom of judah, made mostly of the tribe of judah, lent its name to the remaining people, thus they were called Jews (from the hebrew for judean...now, hebrew is just a language.

Answer 8

Well Jews were called Hebrews at one time and also Israelites..now they are called Jews =Judah (Kingdom of Judah)

Answer 9

ROFLMAO
It was a derogatory name much like the "N" word.
It comes from the tribe of Judah. thus Jewish, and Jew!
Better they could and are called Israelian.

Answer 10

Jewish is the religion, Hebrew is the language.