Penelope
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Eridu, a Sumerian city, was founded in 5,400 BC confirmed by archeological/scientific analysis. Thousands of years before the other civilizations, Chinese,Greeks and Jews included. There's a reason why the area is called the cradle of civilization.
The Minoan civilization go's back at least that far as well. No one is claiming the Jews are the first to write their history. They are the first to write history for the region of JERUSALEM. Kind of supports the claim that they originated there ...eh?
The letters from Jerusalem (written as “Urusalim” in the Amarna texts) are from a Canaanite ruler named Abdi-Heba. He states that he is a “soldier for the king, my lord” and requests that the Egyptian monarch send him a messenger and some military men to help resist his enemies. In multiple letters he states that he “falls at the feet of my lord the king, seven times and seven times,” a stock phrase and common ancient Near Eastern motif that conveys his faithfulness to his Egyptian suzerain. He also makes clear that it was not his “father or mother who put me in this place” (on the throne), but rather the “strong arm of the king.” Here Abdi-Heba reveals that he was not the heir to the throne but given the throne of Jerusalem by the Egyptian king himself. He goes on to state that for this reason he will always be a faithful vassal of his Egyptian lord, regardless of any accusation by an enemy to the contrary. Among the enemies he refers to in his correspondence are the “Apiru” (people living on the fringes of society in the second millennium B.C.E., sometimes serving as mercenaries) and the Kashites (a Hittite people from Anatolia).
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Jerusalem in the Amarna Letters