THE ABRAHAM'S JOURNEY

 

About 1900 B.C. Canaan was not inhabited. Indeed, this family does not belong to anyone. Somewhere among the plowed fields were fortified with towers. On the surrounding slopes to grow vineyards or fig and date palms.

Abraham, as the Bible tells us, chose with its first study of Palestine deserted and the hard way, which led to the South: here the wooded slopes of the hills an unfamiliar country gave shelter and a safe haven, but the open plots served as grazing ground for his Stud.

Between sedentary farmers and pastoralists and wild hordes, nowhere bound, whose houses were tents of goat hides somewhere in the desert under the stars, was in constant war. And it is in this troubled country went to Abraham, his wife Sarah, his nephew lot, with their families and their livestock.

We are grateful to the dry sands of the Egyptian desert: it has full - with the majority of the hieroglyphic texts, including valuable written evidence of Semitic in the Nile Valley. And yet the best and precise evidence is the images, one of which - the Semitic family.

In 1890, the Cairo authorities have charged a British professional Percy e. Newberry explore several ancient tombs. The expedition was funded by the Egyptian Research Fund.

Having spent a lot of time and effort, Newberry eventually made it to the great stone house. In the light of torches, he managed to make out in three land protruding out of the crypt and the remains of two rows of columns. Bright walls were covered with magnificent coloured paintings on wet plaster. They carry depictions of scenes from the life of a person, learn about the harvesting, hunting, dancing and competitions. In one of the paintings on the North wall, immediately on the portrait of a nobleman in life-size, Newberry found figures of people, looked like. They were fair-skinned persons, with pointed facial features and unusual for the Egyptians. Two Egyptian officials portrayed in the foreground, represented this group of aliens noble dignitary. What were their people?

The style and the color of their clothes played with great precision. Rectangular woolen capes, reaching to the knees for men and calves in women moved through one shoulder. They are made of multicolored striped fabrics and cloaks. If they do not resemble us the famous "coat of many colors", which Jacob, to the great annoyance of his other sons, gave his beloved son Joseph? Men-trimmed beard is gabled. Women's hair free fall to the chest and bandaged shoulders and a narrow white tape around the forehead.

For the dating of this picture approximately 1900  B.C. (the time of the Patriarchs), we can imagine that Abraham (then still called Abram) and his family looked almost the same.