[decimon]

Lost and found ping.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Well, the Bible does say that the Jews would be scattered to the ends of the earth before their final ingathering....and this didn’t just mean to Elephantine in Egypt and Babylon in Mesopotamia!

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Has anyone ever performed DNA testing on the Jews that Koestler refers to as the 13th tribe?

[Tax-chick]

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.

Aside from the Star of David, those are Muslim customs as well.

[RightOnline]

Oy vey.

[blam]

The Great Zimbabwe Ruins

[JoeProBono]

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The clincher was some years ago, when it was discovered that these people had a very distinct DNA segment unique to the Jewish priestly subdivision of the Levi tribe, called the Kohanim, the modern descendants of which is Cohen, Kohn, and other variations of that name.

Unlike the other tribes, the Levi were not granted territory, but were supposed to be itinerant (travelers) in the territories of the other tribes. But with the diaspora, the Kohanim eventually settled down where other Jews lived, more or less. One of their big enclaves was in Yemen. And this is where this southern African tribe is believed to have originated.

In their tribal mythology, a great leader named “Bubu”, or something like that, took a large number of the Kohanim from Yemen and led them through Africa to their destination in the south of the continent.

[windsorknot]

Fascinating.

[pnh102]

Wow... neat.

[dangerdoc]

They claim to have the Ark, does anybody have a picture of their artifact

[madison10]

Awesome!

[SunkenCiv]

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[hennie pennie]

I still think that the articles about the Taliban being descended from Jews is more bizarre, LOL

[Hawthorn]

A well-known story. The BBC is a little late getting to it. PBS did an hour’s documentary on the matter about five or six years ago. But still fascinating!

[NYer]

Ping!

[Popman]

How can something be "found" when it was never "lost"

These people have been a well known fact for a very long time

[madison10]

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?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

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?

[La Lydia]

A tremendous post, Decimon. Stuff like this is why I love FR.