How the Hebrews Have Impacted the World Through the Ages

The Jews impacted the world with religion in many different ways. Abraham/Abram, the first Jew, has his story told in the Old Testament/Torah book of Genesis. God told him that he and his wife would have a son. Being around one hundred years old at the time, and having a wife that was in her nineties, this took a lot of faith to believe. Unfortunately, Sarai/Sarah, his wife, had a slight lapse of faith. She told Abraham to lay with her maidservant, Hagar. With Hagar, Abraham had a son whom they named Ishmael. Ishmael has come to mean “a person who is rejected from society or home” because of what happened to him and his mother. They were sent away by Abraham because Sarah told him to.

Abraham and Sarah, at one point, did have a son together, whom they named Isaa

c. Isaac carried on the Israelite/Jewish/Hebrew faith, whereas Ishmael became the “father” of all Muslims. This “sibling rivalry”, as it were, is why there is why there is continued strife between the Jews and Muslims to this very day. That just goes to show how one little incident in history can have an enormous impact nearly six thousand years later.

The Egyptian king at the time, growing fearful that the Jews would try to revolt against him, ordered all Jewish children below two years of age to be slaughtered or thrown into the Nile. His wife came across a baby in a basket on the Nile river and gave him the name Moses. Moses grew up as the younger brother of Rameses II, the future Pharaoh that he would be pitted against.

Even there shear existence affected the world. Hitler, during WWII, began the slaughter of the Jewish people and excusing it to his own with his propaganda. The concentration camps he used to exact his cruelty upon them killed millions of innocent Jews. The effects of this are still felt today. There are many individual “Holocaust Museums” around the world.

Another way in which they impacted the world is through military conquest. Their faith in God led them to be great warriors and overcome many obstacles. After being freed from the Egyptians and crossing the red sea, the Jews wandered in the desert for forty years. At that time, they came to the land of Canaan, the “Promised Land”. In Canaan, they came to see giants (the Nephilim. Believed to be half-human, half-angel.) and many of them became scared. But there were two warriors, Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, had great faith in God and drove on, defeating the giants and taking the Canaan.

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