Prompt: What were some of the most interesting things you learned about by readi

Prompt:
What were some of the most interesting things you learned about by reading about the history of the ancient Hebrews in the textbook chapter and the primary source documents from the Hebrew Bible? Did this information change the way you understood anything about the ancient world, your understanding of the history of the Jewish people, or about your own religious background? In thinking about the ‘history’ of the Hebrews as represented in the primary source readings, to what degree to these accounts seem like ‘historical’ descriptions of events, and to what degree to they seem to be statements of faith or a manifestation of the relationship between a people and their god? Does reading this material in a historical context change your view of it at all? If so why? No not, why not?