Yet 30 years later, many questions about Jonestown remain only partly answered. Who was Jones, and what was life like in the jungle community built by his followers? Why did they believe in him so unquestioningly? And were their deaths a random act of madness, or could a similar horror ever happen again?
Another name used for the people is Children of Israel or Israelites, which refers to the fact that the people are descendants of Jacob, who was also called Israel. The word Jew (in Hebrew, Yehudi) is derived from the name Judah, which was the name of one of Jacob's twelve sons.Judah was the ancestor of one of the tribes of Israel, which was named after him. Likewise, the word Judaism literally means Judah-ism, that is, the religion of the Yehudim.rigins of the Words Jew and Judaism. The original name for the people we now call Jews was Hebrews. The word Hebrew (in Hebrew, Ivri) is first used in the Torah to describe Abraham (Gen. 14:13).
In studies of linguistics and ethnology, the term Semitic (from the biblical  Shem , Hebrew: ×©× â) was first used to refer to a family of languages native to West Asia (the Middle East). (Goettingen, gÃ¶ttingen) 1807 it had already become a fixed technical. Term the Word semitic is derived From, shem one of the three sons Of noah In genesis:5, 32 genesis:6, 10 genesis:10, 21 or more precisely from The greek derivative of that, name NAMELY (ÏÎ·Î¼); sÄm the noun form referring to a person Is. semite