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Thanks for the link. However, it seems that issue is far from settled in that article:
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Which issue exactly?
Whether or not there are more than one egyptian reference or whether pr.w, habiru, hapiru are the biblical Hebrews?
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Perhaps Gillianren was referring to generally agreed upon references (I don't mean to speak for her, just wondering)?
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Perhaps, but I'd like to know which book says "the only egyptian record."
"In that vein, some modern scholars consider the Habiru to be more of a social designation than an ethnic or a tribal one. That does not, however, exclude the possibility that the Biblical Hebrews were descended from one specific group of Habiru and that with them it eventually became an ethnic name; such shifts in the meaning of names and designations are well-known elsewhere."