Posted on 02/25/2025 11:10:32 AM PST by BenLurkin
The subject of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel has fascinated Biblical researchers for centuries, if not longer. One theory which started becoming popular in the sixteenth century is that some, if not all, of these Ten Tribes migrated to ancient Britain.
The theory is much less popular today than it once was. However, it has experienced something of a resurgence in recent decades.
According to proponents of the theory connecting the Israelites to the Britons, the Cimmerians can be identified as the deported Israelites. There are two main pieces of evidence for this. The first is that they appear in the historical record in the same place that large numbers of Israelites were deported to, and at the same time. The second piece of evidence is that the Israelites were supposedly known in Assyrian records as the “Khumri” which is remarkably similar to “Kimmeroi” the Greek name for the Cimmerians.
Promoters of this theory claim that the Israelites are known as the “Khumri” in the Assyrian records. But this is not the case. They are known as the “Bit Khumri”. This is a very important distinction. The word “Bit” means “House”, while “Khumri” is a form of the name “Omri”, a powerful Israelite king from before the time these records were made. So the Assyrians referred to the Israelite dynasty as the “House of Omri”, because Omri was an important founding figure. This is equivalent to the expression “House of David”, used in reference to the southern dynasty. The Assyrians evidently referred to the Israelites by this term because Omri was a powerful king who left an impression on them.
In contrast, there is no evidence that the Greeks had ever heard of King Omri.
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Also held by Grace Communion International (formerly “Worldwide Church of God”, formerly “The Plain Truth”). Those were the folks who used to give away the Plain Truth Magazine in airports. They tithe at 30% or more, and featured self-proclaimed Scripture expert Herbert Armstrong. Also ran the TV show “The World Tomorrow”.
Yeah mon!
Remember Dr. Gene Scott? He did too I think. He also had wild theories about the Great Pyramid. Ancient Aliens stuff but without the aliens.
Remember when that was released. Got played a lot.
So King Arthur was Jewish? How about Merlin?
And there’s a possibility that the Prophet Jeremiah was entombed in Ireland in a place called T-Cairn? And prior to going there he went with the daughter of the king Zedekiah to Egypt where she was married and re-united the breech of Judah’s first twin son. Just a thought.
Something about the Stone of Scone
This argument is silly. Here’s why…Before God destroyed Israel (the Northern Kingdom) in the 8th Century BC, the Believers of the north came south to Judah (the southern kingdom). The size of Jerusalem doubled in a few days. So actually, the 10 tribes are represented in Israel today. They are not lost. The unbelievers of Israel were dispersed among the Assyrian Empire. They have assimilated with those cultures.
For the same reason the Black Israelites started to falsely claim this in the late 1800s.
Or people identify with protagonists in stories and begin to imagine themselves as Luke Skywalker.
The English all read these stories and want to claim the mantle of their heroes, so they look for something to potentially make it true.
We are what we are because of geography and climate.
Britons and Israelis? Hmmm.
I have read a few books on the subject, and use to listen to ole Gene Scott, am no expert certainly, but it us amusing how he hangs his entire arguments on two concepts that don’t really amount to much.
Cyrus H. Gordon wrote that the early Greeks were Israelites, of the the tribe of Dan, who left Egypt before the main exodus under Moses.
Josepheus said the Trojans were Jews.
Thanks BenLurkin, nice twofer.
One of *those* topics.
This is actually different from the similarly odd contention that the UK royals are descended from the Bible’s King David.
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