Where did the Hebrews live during the time of Moses?

Answer 1

Biblical tradition says that the Hebrews were among the nations descended from Abraham, that they lived in Egypt for 400 years and then conquered the entire land of the Canaanites, eventually even including much of trans-Jordan and Syria.

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a different pattern. The Hebrews were Canaanites who migrated from the region of the rich coastal cities and settled peacefully in the hitherto sparsely populated hinterland, where they made their homes. For the most part of history from around 1200 BCE to 722 BCE, the Hebrews lived in the hinterland from the Jezreel valley down somewhat to the south of the Dead Sea. After the destruction of Israel in 722 BCE, the homeland was the small enclave of Judah, west of the Dead Sea, with Philistia between Judah and the Mediterranean Sea. However, refugees from Israel also established a small colony in Egypt.

Answer 2

Abraham was born in Ur. Subsequently, his father Terah relocated to Harran; and it is here that Abraham began to develop a circle of disciples (Rashi commentary, on Genesis 12:5). Later, God told Abraham in prophecy to move to the Holy Land, which is where he raised his family.
All of the above places are in the ancient Fertile Crescent.

• Is the Jewish tradition trustworthy? Or should we trust secular scholars?

"Although critics contended that the Hebrew Bible is untrustworthy, time and time again, the archaeological record supports places, times, and events mentioned in Scripture." (Professor John Arthur Thompson, The Bible and Archaeology). The personal names Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are names of the time and area mentioned in the Bible (ibid).

"One city after another, one civilization after another, one culture after another, who were known only from the Bible, have been restored to their place in ancient history through archaeology" (Prof. Gleason Archer, A Survey of Old Testament Introduction).

No parchment, scroll, or inscription has ever been found that would support the Bible-critics' JEPD (different sources) hypothesis, which remains a set of mere postulates. And those ancient writers who mention, describe, summarize or translate the Torah (Josephus, Samaritans, Targum, Septuagint etc.), describe it in its complete form.

Archaeological finds, such as the Ugarit documents and those of Nuzu, Mari, Susa, Ebla, and Tel el-Amarna, have repeatedly caused the critics to retract their claims. The entire social milieu portrayed in the Torah, once criticized as anachronistic, has been shown to be accurate, including customs of marriage, adoption, contracts, inheritance, purchases, utensils, modes of travel, people's names and titles, etc. Professor Gleason Archer states: "In case after case where inaccuracy was alleged as proof of late and spurious authorship of the biblical documents, the Hebrew record has been vindicated by the results of excavations, and the condemnatory judgment of the theorists have been proved to be without foundation."

Answer 2

A historical answer to the question of where the Hebrews lived, is that they emerged out of the Canaanite milieu in the last two centuries of the second millennium BCE and established themselves in the mountainous hinterland of Palestine. The southern Hebrews established a kingdom called Judah, to the west of the Dead Sea. The northern Hebrews established a kingdom called Israel, which eventually extended to include the rich Jezreel Valley. Depending on the fortunes of war, their territory expanded briefly and contracted. By the beginning of the eighth century BCE, the Hebrew territory had contracted, with Israel being gradually restricted to the city of Samaria and its immediate environs. After 722 BCE, the sole remaining Hebrew territory was the small enclave of Judah. A brief period of expansion during the Maccabean period in the second century BCE did once again provide a larger domain, although arguably the people outside Judah were largely not of Hebrew ancestry.

Answer 3

The early Hebrews (before Abraham) lived in the northeastern Fertile Crescent, where places bearing their names have been unearthed. On the Euphrates River (present-day Iraq), ancient towns were named after the ancestors (Genesis ch.11) of Abraham:
The "city of Nahor" was found near the city of Haran which still exists to this day. The names of other towns found nearby were Serug (Assyrian SARUGI), Terah (TIL TURAKHI, "Mound of Terah"), and Peleg (PALIGA, on the Euphrates near the mouth of the Habur). At the time of Abraham, his branch of the family moved to Canaan and their subsequent history and location is covered in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible). The rest of Abraham's cousins, in what is now northern Syria and Iraq and southeastern Turkey, assimilated into the wider (non-Hebrew) population. Aramaic is a spoken language to this day in some towns there.See also the Related Links.Link: Where did the Jews come from?
Link: How Judaism was founded

Link: Archaeology and the Hebrew Bible

Answer 4

The people who became the Hebrews originally lived in Mesopotamia, around 1950 B.C.E. they moved to the land of Canaan (modern-day israel)

Answer 5

They lived in Egypt and during Moses' lifetime, they left Egypt and wandered in the Sinai desert.

Answer 6

Israel. The Hebrews people are Israelis.

Answer 7

Houses tents and huts

Answer 8

They lived in the land of Israel.

Answer 9

Israel

Answer 10

Israel.