
Translator: Davood Salehan
Source: rasekhoon.net
Source: rasekhoon.net
Family of Aramaic kings of Damascus who have serious and decisive role in the internal developments of the tribes of Israel, are called Ben Hadad. The name means assigning their ancestry to a man named "Hadad". House of kings of Bani Hadad in Damascus are real characters not mythical ones, and in archeological discoveries bin Hadad’s rock motif has been obtained and also in Assyrian inscriptions Hadad family’s name is mentioned. Of this family three individuals came to power in Damascus with the name of "Ben Hadad". Ben Hadad the first had friendly relationships with the governments of Israel, but eventually by stimulation of the Jews, he attacked to the land of the ten tribes of the North. Ben Hadad the second had leadership of Alliance of twelve governments of Syrian and the East Mediterranean, including Arabs and Ephraim and Phoenicians against Shalmaneser III, king of Assyria, and in 853 BC, ruled a great battle against the Assyrians and pushed them back. Ben Hadad III (son of Hazael) was conquered by the Assyrians and became their tributary. Finally, in 732 BC, with conspiracy of Aahaz, king of the Jews, the Assyrian empire ended independency of state of Syria, which had begun the policy of fighting with Assyrians’ domination.
In our view, the link of name of "Nabat" with the ancient history of Israel is of serious importance.
In the "Old Testament", the name of "Nabat" has a special place in the two cases, and in both cases, it is related with two big rebellions to revive Mousavi monotheism against Phoenician idolatry. If we think os a symbolic content for the name that in new mythology such interpretations are common and note that in the Arab mythology also the elder son of Ishmael and the ancestor of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is called "Nabat" as well, this symbolic concept finds a serious importance.
Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who is known as the chairman of the "house of Joseph", is the leader of the revolt of the ten northern tribes of Israel against the aristocracy of the tribe of Judah and revival of the Phoenicians idolatry in their territory and the founder of " Ephraim’s Government ". We should note that this rebellion was led by a prophet in the name of Akhya’ Shyluny. Akhya is from Shiloh and lived in the city in his old ages. Shiloh is a city near the village of Wadi Musa in today Jordan (150 km of south-east of Jerusalem). This area, which was the home of indigenous people from the far past, was captured by the Jewish state in the ninth century BC. In the fourth century BC, we know the inhabitants of Shiloh with the name of Nabataean Arabs. In the early third century, they established a big government that Shiloh was its capital. The city, which its ancient ruins today are known with the Greek name of “Petra” (meaning "City of Stone") was of the major business centers of the world at that time and was placed in the heart of commercial thoroughfare of India and the Mediterranean.
Another case of presence of the concept of "Nabat" In the mythology of Israel is invasion to property and murder of a man named Nabat (Naboth) by Jezebel, Phoenician queen of the Israelites. The story has a central position in Aylya the prophet’s revolution and the fall of the aristocracy of Israel and the final destruction of the Phoenician idolatry in the land of the ten North tribes (country of Ephraim).
According to Jewish mythology, Isaac, was born after Ishmael from Sara, wife of Abraham. The boy, unlike Ismail is selected and chosen by "God of Israel": "I have established my covenant with him so that there would be an everlasting covenant with his generation after him." Isaac was born in "The Promised Land" (Canaan) and died in this country. The little boy of Isaac named Jacob who is the third "Israel’s Father" after Abraham and Isaac and is the founder of the Israelites.
"Israel" is a title that the revelations Angel gave to Jacob from God and promised him that a nation will grow from his descendants. Since then, Jacob calls his God " Al Alvah Israel" (God, the God of Israel), and in the "Old Testament" the Hebrew tribes are called under the name of "Children of Israel", "tribes of Israel", "the nation of Israel" and "the House of Israel".
Jacob's twelve sons or "the twelve tribes of Israel" founded twelve tribes of Israel. These tribes include: Rubin (Ruben), Simon (Simeon), Levi (Levy), Yehuda (Judah), Issachar (Yashhar, Yasaakher), Zebulun (Zeblun , Ziyalun), Don, Naphtali (Nftayil), Judd, Asher (Ashir, Ashr, Acer), Manaseh (Manasseh), Ephraim and Benjamin (son of Jamin, Benjamin). Manaseh and Ephraim the children of Joseph are eleventh and the most popular boy of Jacob and two half-tribe attributed to them are the same tribe of Joseph. The claim that tribes of Israel are all decedents of Jacob is not acceptable, but it is rational that based on traditions of tribal communities, children of Jacob, each one have had tribal head, and each tribe has found the name of his head’s name.
Jews’ tribe is attributed to Judah, the fourth son of Jacob. At the end of Jacob’s life, Judah was president of the largest and most populous tribe of the children of Israel, and since then, his tribe was considered as Israel's most important political power. In Jewish legends which have had an important role in the development of ethnic culture and psychology of Jews, Judah is the wisest and the most prominent rival brothers of Joseph, and his character is an acceptable model.
In these mythic symbols, for the first time we get familiar with the character of Judas as a rep old man who unknowingly blends with his daughter-in-law, fearing that she is a "whore", and for it he gives his "punch and staff and stick" as pledge. The result of this union is two boys (Perez and Zareh) who are the ancestors of the two tribes of Judah. The Jewish drafters of the "Genesis" promise to Judah the kingdom of mission to Israel and the world from the words of Jacob the prophet:
Judas ... your hands will be on the neck of your enemies, and the sons of your father will bow you ...the stick will not be far from Judah and nor be a ruler from between his legs so the "Shiloh" will come. And to him shall be the obedience of the Gentiles.
This is the same rod that Judah had earlier given it as pledge!
Judah is the symbol of hypocrisy and deception among the sons of Jacob. On one hand, in the story of conspiracy of brothers against the life of Joseph, he is the main role, and on the other hand, he shows himself to Jacob as lover of Joseph and blames the other brothers and he says he had saved his life.
He finally succeeded with this ruse to be the deputy of Joseph and the ruler of Israelites.
Judah prevents the murder of Joseph by other brothers and suggests throwing him in the well, but this is not euthanasia, death in a pit full of snakes and scorpions is certainly more painful a simple death. He is such a ruse so that Joseph sees him as compassion brother among others and for his rescue asks him. He is so cruel that plead of the little brother makes no change in him, and he is so shrewd that, in spite of superiority over other brothers and the ability to save Joseph, attributes the dire decision to them:
Joseph... held the skirt of Judah. Said: You are the elder brother, and you have more dignity and compassion, so do intercession. Judah said intercede has no profit. Saying, I repent. Said this is not the place to repent. Said ask them for my excuse that if I committed a crime I was a child and ignorance. Said: they do not accept excuses. Said: O Tell them to put this robe on me, as if I cover my private parts, and if I die be my shroud. Said they do not accept to.
He said: Brother do something for me. Said: nothing can be done...
When brothers go to Joseph's prison without knowing their prison guard, the first one that accuses the other brothers and attributes all the sins to them is Judah:
Judah said, I told you not to do this deal. You did not obey my command. Now our lives and the profit and loss and Khan, and the curtains are ripped.
And when Joseph, King of Egypt, threatening them to punish, Judah is the first one who pleads and cries:
Judah was on backward. He mourned and grieved that: Va Jacob, I wish I could see you to tell you when evil of our act came up, and our deception tore the curtains of our time.
And finally he is the one who takes cloth of Joseph for his father as he had already taken Joseph’s bloody shirt.
In the Quran we can see a tangible difference between the words "Israel" and "Jewish". In the Qur'an Children of Israel" is used for the people of prophets like Moses; the Lord gave the Israelites superiority, they did not thank his blessing and turned away Moses’s way and other prophets.
Word Jewish in the Quran refers to a new concept formed of the Jewish people" in the first century AD. Its remarkable symbol is Jewish Contemporary Centers of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) which were mainly deployed on the territory of Mesopotamia and Arabia, and were employed in the monetary transactions based on interest (usury); the action that Koran has strongly condemned it.
In the Qur'an, Jews are described as tribal people and highly ungrateful and greedy to the world. They have nothing to do with Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and Jacob's descendants, because they have hidden the Book of Allah and have preferred misguidance to guidance. Due to treason and blasphemy on the revelations of Allah and killing the prophets, God has set a seal upon their hearts and they will not believe except a few of them, and because of the receiving interest and eating property of people, a painful punishment awaits them. They deny the message of God and are enemy to it, and are the most venomous enemy of Islam and Muslims and make corruption on the earth and are cursed by God. Finally, God chose them as "the party of Satan."
Muslims also more or less distinguished between the concepts of "Israel" and "Jewish". For example, Meybodi (sixth century AD) speaks of "Jews of Israel" and generally distinguishes between "Israel" and "Jew". In Islamic tradition, the Jewish aristocracy hated hardly with the prophets of Israel. Meybodi writes:
It is narrated that Jews killed seventy Prophets in the first day and several hermits rose to enjoin and stop them of murder, and at the end of the day, they killed them as well.
Jewish aristocracy’s enmity with the prophets of Israel is so strong that according to the narratives of Meqatel Ben Solomon, God banned Dhul-Kifl the Prophet from interacting with them.