Hi Joe

Thanks. I've no doubt they could and did serve as military men, but this is little different than Aramaeans being used as such by the Neo-Assyrians. The Sumerian logogram is only translated into Akkadian as saggasu because of a pun on words in my opinion. You don't make real brigands and murderers into field battalions, charioteers, and troops. The Hapiru were obviously an ethnic group with a common language and possessing all kinds of useful talents but they were also an underclass with a reputation of causing trouble.

Regards Tory