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III. Israel (Hebrew) Ancient Development of Israel The Hapiru who entered Canaan around 1200 B.C. came from Egypt. The name is thought to mean outsider or marauder and is the probable root of the term Hebrew. The invaders were a Semitic group of mixed ancestry whose forebears had left Mesopotamia some six hundred years earlier during the conquest of Sumeria by Babylon. They lived for several generations as pastoralists in the trans–Jordan highlands and then emigrated to Egypt. With the revival of the New Kingdom under native Egyptian dynasties, the situation of the Semitic immigrants became mo