Posted on 10/13/2024 12:46:41 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian
Columbus’ lineage unveiled through DNA analysis The centuries-old mystery of Christopher Columbus’ lineage has been solved. Scientists revealed the explorer’s roots after DNA analysis in a documentary aired on Saturday, October 10th on Spanish television.
Researchers, led by forensic pathologist Miguel Llorente, examined microscopic samples of remains buried in Seville Cathedral. They compared them to those of his known relatives and descendants. The DNA study confirmed that the remains of Christopher Columbus are indeed buried in Seville. Llorente, briefing reporters on the findings, confirmed this.
He specifically stated: “Today it became possible to verify with new technologies, definitively confirming the previous partial theory that the remains in Seville belong to Christopher Columbus.”
The ethnicity investigation was more complicated due to several factors, including the vast amount of data, but “the result is almost completely reliable,” Llorente added.
Christopher Columbus and the Spanish-Jewish connection There has long been almost conclusive evidence that Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew, meaning a Jew of Spanish and hence Western European descent. In particular, one element that had led scientists to this conclusion, even prior to DNA analysis, was the limited information available about his early years.
He may have actively hidden his Jewish roots to avoid persecution by the Catholic Spanish monarchs. In the 15th century, most Sephardic Jews were indeed Crypto-Jews. At the same time, historical evidence indicates that Columbus often made personal use of Jewish symbols.
Mystery of Christopher Columbus’s roots Writers have produced more content on Christopher Columbus than anyone else except Jesus Christ, yet his past remains shrouded in mystery.
The majority of historians generally agree that Columbus’ family was from Liguria. Christopher was born in the city of Genoa, the son of Domenico Columbo, a local weaver. However, the exact origin of Christopher Columbus has been a source of speculation since the 19th century. Recently, many published texts have claimed that the great admiral could have been Portuguese, Catalan, Polish, or Greek.
Is Christopher Columbus buried in both Seville and Santo Domingo? Columbus died at the age of 55 in the northwestern Spanish city of Valladolid in 1506. However, his last wish was to be buried on the island of Hispaniola. Both the Dominican Republic and Haiti share this island.
His remains were thus moved there in 1542 and then relocated to Cuba in 1795. Finally, in 1898, they were believed to have been moved to Seville, Spain.
In 1877, workmen in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, discovered a lead coffin buried behind the shrine in the Santo Domingo Cathedral. The coffin contained bone fragments, which the Dominican Republic claims are Columbus’ remains.
Llorente believes that the claim that Christopher Columbus is buried in both Seville and Santo Domingo could be valid, as the remains in both locations are in fact incomplete.
No idea.
The Mexican inquisition was particularly corrupt and lasted into the 1800s
Indeed, the major impetus for the Texas revolution is Mexico demanded the Protestant and Jewish settlors in Texas convert to Catholicism or leave, directly contrary to the promises made to them when lured into Texas territory.
And they continued to say the Shema until they died. Of course, not all would have the strength to resist.
I wonder if this is similar to how gays think all historical people were gay and how blacks think everything was actually invented by black people.
Now we are going to start hearing that everyone was secretly Jewish.
Nah, the Columbus family was repeatedly accused of being Jewish back in the day. (They denied the claims.)
Coupled with the DNA, the murky family history (it stops dead with the parents), and his consistent use of Hebrew, this case appears closed.
So does this make the Indigenous People’s Day proponents anti-Semites?
Bwah hah hah hah hah!
:^)
Sure we can still eat ham. Just bless it with holy water and convert it to a turkey.
Kamala Harris: I'll eliminate Columbus Day, make it Indigenous People's Day
Of course, with Deep State's base, that's likely a selling point...
His so called Jewish parents named him
Christopher, after Christ?
“His so called Jewish parents named him”
As a half-Ashkenazi/half-Sephardic Jew (Texan, by way of Mexico), I have entire branches of my Mexican family who did their best to blend in, including taking overtly Nazarene names. Some were Catholic. Some were not.
My family fled to Texas in the early 1800s because of the promise that they could practice Judaism openly. Lots of Protestants did, too. This turned out to be a lie, and hence the Texas Revolution.
That said, it’s very possible Columbus’s family were sincere converts. Probable, even. I have no idea. It doesn’t change that he and his family would hide their heritage.
Marranos (literally means “pigs”, the Spanish name for Jewish converts) were treated poorly in Spain and always suspect. It was pretty routine for false accusations to be made that someone was secretly Jewish (or Protestant), some money paid to someone, and suddenly the person was on trial.
Hence, Marranos did their best to hide their heritage, regardless of whether secretly Jewish or actually converted.
Long way of saying his name means nothing, one way or the other.
It’s more interesting to me that Columbus would write out the acronym for the Shema in letters to his son. Tells me his Judaism was not forgotten.
His birth name was Shlomo, but then he changed it to Christopher.
I don't think Samaritans are even mentioned in the Gospel according to Mark. In Matt. 10.5 Gentiles (ethnon) and Samaritans are treated as separate categories.
Luke 9.52-53 says that a Samaritan village refused to receive Jesus and gives the reason that he was on his way to Jerusalem. Then there is the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10. Why does Jesus make the one whose behavior should be imitated a Samaritan, if not to challenge the general prejudice against Samaritans among the Jews who were listening to him. John 4.1-42 has Jesus' conversation with a Samaritan woman and many Samaritans coming to believe in him.
You might want to learn some Greek and try again.
You’re wrong, but will not ever acknowledge it. So you are a waste of time.
So, I guess Ishmael was Jewish since his dad was Abraham.
This is grave news to the Palestinian Arabs. They now how to commit jihad against themselves.
Sorry VR, Ezra was (and is) correct. The children of Jewish fathers and non-Jewish women are not Jewish (unless they convert, which is very common).
More importantly, you have zero evidence to proclaim that the age-old traditional interpretation of scripture by Jewish people is incorrect or was ever different than it is today.
According to Acts 16.1-3, Timothy was the son of a Jewish woman and a Greek--Paul had him circumcised to make him acceptable to the Jews, so merely having a Jewish mother was not enough at that time.
I'm not questioning the present-day rule that someone has to have a Jewish mother to be considered Jewish (without converting), just whether that rule always existed. Is there any evidence in the Hebrew Bible?
I think DNA studies show that the Palestinian Arabs are related to the Jews--which makes sense if most of them are descended from the non-Jewish inhabitants of the Land of Canaan, or from people of Jewish or Samaritan ancestry who became Christian in the centuries before the Arab conquest, than over the centuries became mostly Muslim (but a minority remained Christian).
Ya, entirely nonsense but this flavor is for elements on the right.
Got it.
You think Ishmael was Jewish because Abraham was Jewish.
HaShem disagrees.
According to Genesis 25, after Sarah's death, Abraham married Keturah and had 6 sons by her. The Midianites were among their descendants. Ishmael was Abraham's son by his Egyptian slave Hagar.
The Edomites were also descended from Abraham (and Isaac) but were not Jewish. That Herod the Great was Idumaean (Edomite) was held against him even though he practiced the Jewish religion (more or less--he observed the prohibition against eating pork, but he killed his own son, which is not part of Jewish law).
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