Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3 Yehudim Israeli pronunciation [jehuˈdim]); (בני ישראל Standard: Bnai Yisraʾel; Tiberian: Bnai Yiśrāʾēl; ISO 259-3: Bnai Yiśraʾel translated as: Children of Israel or Sons of Israel) also known as the Jewish people are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating from the Israelites (Hebrews) of the Ancient Near East.According to Jewish tradition Jewish ancestry is traced back to the Biblical patriarchs Abraham Isaac and Jacob who lived in Canaan around the 18th century BCE.
