[SunkenCiv]

Map of Assyrian conquest of Judah |

[Darksheare]

“Following the destruction of all the key sites in the north and the deportation of thousands, the Assyrians resettled the area with displaced peoples whom they had conquered and deported from other regions of the Near East, including Syria and the Transjordan. The practice shredded the social and cultural fabric of the region so that it could never recover, while providing some revenue from a foreign population now rendered homeless. “

Odd, sure sounds like the unfettered illegal immigration efforts by world governments.
Gotta wonder about that.

[nickcarraway]

Have you ever noticed tribes are always at the last place you look for them?

[Carry_Okie]

The world’s first experiment in tribal federalism.

[Carry_Okie]

If they'd kept the land Sabbath as originally designed, said conquest would never have been attempted. That defensive system is laid out in Shemitta, a brilliant multidisciplinary design.

[RoosterRedux]

Bfl

[Uncle Miltie]

There are still 860 Samaritans in Israel, about half in Nablus at their ancestral temple mount of Gerizim, a competitor to Jerusalem. They have an essentially complete and identical Torah, celebrate most of the same holidays, use an ancient hebrew script, have strong Cohain DNA, and historically (~2,000 years ago) intermarried substantially with Southern Israelites from Judea.

I’m stunned, and studying.

[Dave W]

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[Red Badger]

No GPS.......