ABSTRACT
In ancient times, Egyptian Bronze Age inscriptions and Assyrian and Babylonian documents also associate kin-based nomadic societies with pastoralism, as well as with a warlike, aggressive nature, opposed to settlement and government control. According to the Bible, long seen as the ultimate source of information for the region, the patriarchs of the Tribes of Israel were goat, sheep and camel breeders, wandering nomads, until they wandered into the Promised Land and became settlers. is picture is “conrmed” by travellers in their descriptions of the warlike tribes of the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula.
