Live about ancient hebrew civilization

In at least one branch of their descendants the Semitic peoples of Babylonia still live. Ancient Babylon has disappeared, and its land has become a waste, inhabited by a feeble folk bearing little or no kinship to the mighty race of earth's first empire builders. But the Hebrew of today are the living tree that has sprung from that marvelous root of Babylonian culture, character, and religion.

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 They pastured their scanty flocks on the herbage of Sinai, a barren land, but by no means so desolate as the earlier home of their Semite ancestors in Arabia. Finally, feeling themselves strong enough, the wanderers advanced northward into Palestine. They found it no longer the thinly peopled country it had been in Abraham's day. Under Joshua they waged battle after battle against its Canaanite cities before becoming masters of the land.