Hebrew is just Aramaic for Semitic, meaning a family of languages and people distantly related by a common ancestry. Aramaic-speaking herders frequently raided the settled lands from Gaza up through Syria and then down to the Persian Gulf through Iraq during the Bronze Age.
The ancient Israelites were very likely those same people who settled in some small cities they had conquered, much like the Vandals settled in Carthage millennia later.
My point is the Vandals came from at least as far as Poland, and the Israelites' ancestors probably wandered around in an area far vaster than just the Sinai in the decades before they found cities too weak to resist them.
Hebrew is just Aramaic for Semitic, meaning a family of languages and people distantly related by a common ancestry. Aramaic-speaking herders frequently raided the settled lands from Gaza up through Syria and then down to the Persian Gulf through Iraq during the Bronze Age.
The ancient Israelites were very likely those same people who settled in some small cities they had conquered, much like the Vandals settled in Carthage millennia later.
My point is the Vandals came from at least as far as Poland, and the Israelites' ancestors probably wandered around in an area far vaster than just the Sinai in the decades before they found cities too weak to resist them.