Posted on 03/06/2010 5:29:06 AM PST by decimon
In many ways, the Lemba tribe of Zimbabwe and South Africa are just like their neighbours.
But in other ways their customs are remarkably similar to Jewish ones.
They do not eat pork, they practise male circumcision, they ritually slaughter their animals, some of their men wear skull caps and they put the Star of David on their gravestones.
Their oral traditions claim that their ancestors were Jews who fled the Holy Land about 2,500 years ago.
It may sound like another myth of a lost tribe of Israel, but British scientists have carried out DNA tests which confirm their Semitic origin.
These tests back up the group's belief that a group of perhaps seven men married African women and settled on the continent. The Lemba, who number perhaps 80,000, live in central Zimbabwe and the north of South Africa.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
for latter reading
These people have been a well known fact for a very long time
So....that second wife of Moses... The one Aaron and Miriam had a problem with, a Cushite. (the one they were cursed for their actions) Were there children from that marriage? Who knows? Any children of Moses would have been Levites? Correct?
I thought it was the Etheopians who claimed to have the Ark.
Let me guess, they’re not slaughtering or terrorizing their neighbors, or saying it’s God’s will that they should take over the earth?
All I know is they came wholesale.
Levi was a son of Jacob. The book of Genesis gives all the information on lineages. Moses doesn’t hit the scene until the book of The Exodus.
I read the linked article. I may be mistaken but I think it said this group had an artifact they called Ngoma that they claimed was the original ark.
I have seen a couple of Discovery Channel type shows about the Ethiopian Ark, I would like to see pictures of that one too, but I’m pretty sure none are available. The Ngoma is supposed to go on display this summer.
A tremendous post, Decimon. Stuff like this is why I love FR.
Yeah that's where I learned about it too. Extremely interesting. I saw it either on the National Geo or History International Channel (Premium Cable channels). (1)
(1) I don't watch the Discovery Channel any longer (Basic Cable Channel). Their programming went down hill. 'Dirty Jobs' is now on, whoopee ;-)
Ummm...Moses belonged to the tribe of Levi. Doesn’t matter “when he hit the scene.” Levi had children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, etc. Moses was one of them although his name doesn’t appear until the Book of Exodus. Do you want a lineage chart? :) The PRIESTLY system, did not hit the scene until Exodus and the Tabernacle.
There are other Y-chromosome stories similar to this in that the Jewish men (like other men) often went out on their own and settled down with indigenous women. When maternal DNA from mitochondria are looked at in Jews, many of the European Jews have non-Jewish origins.
Here’s a link to a picture of the “ngoma lungundu”:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8522097.stm
“On each corner there is the remnants of a wooden ring, and obviously at one point, it was carried by inserting poles through these two rings on either side,” he said.
“Of course in the biblical account, that’s precisely how the Ark of the Covenant was carried across the wilderness.”
---- and I thought I was lost on the Buzzards Bay Rotary in '74.
I thought the Great Zimbabwe Ruins were Mugabe & his government.
Thanks.
Do they drink orange soda with a passion?
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