Show Exile and Persecution Long Familiar to Jes J Abraham brnham was u-as the first Hebrew ys rs n a l writer In the Chicago o Journal Commerce one CIne of the car early coples who Included the ancient Phoenicians Babylonians Arabians and amI A Semite laa L n a descendant of Shem one of n a Cau Can Caucasian casian race The fhe Jewish prophets of the Old Testament were among others other Elijah h Ellsha Elisha Jonah Amos AmM Joel Hose Zachariah MIcah Isaiah Zephaniah and Jeremiah We need nee not here go Into the government that Moses gave ga the Jews during his life Since the destruction de of Jerusalem which followed the death ath of or Christ Chrs the history of the Jews has been heen one ot of exile and persecution The Chris Chris- Christian Christian Christian tian church of the Middle ages thought that it honored Christ by despising and maltreating the Jews s but that attitude ha has greatly changed In later ater and more enlightened cen cent centuries centuries |