[LostTribe]

This "Lost Tribes of Israel" book review in a respected newspaper demonstrates in a classic manner what happens when a fundamental premise of a search is defective. The rest of the search (and book) simply falls apart.

The faulty premise in this case is that the Lost Tribes of Israel must exhibit Jewish characteristics such as following customs, language, etc. Therefore, if some obscure group is found which exhibits those characteristics the members are probably from the Lost Tribes.

This premise conveniently ignores the reason the Northern Kingdom (Lost Tribes) were sent into Assyrian exile. It was because they had abandoned their Hebrew (they were not Jewish) customs, traditions, and religion and had become heathens. (If these characteristics had been abandoned, why then go around looking for them?) Their exile and subsequent diaspora, plus "not knowing who they were" for a time were key elements of Gods punishment.

Books like this one, and TV shows appear often in an attempt to "find" or to "dilute" or to "prove" something about the Lost Tribes, especially that they do not exist as a "great nation", as promised. To find out the real story of the Lost Tribes of Israel please click on my LostTribe profile below and read the 3-MINUTE HISTORY.

[andy_card]

Now would you happen to be an eccentric, an obsessive, a misinformed autodidact, a lonely widow or a bored pensioner?

[blam]

My obsession is large enough to include the Lost Tribes.

Now, can someone tell me who were the Argippari people?

(bump)

[LostTribe]

Bump.

[DensaMensa]

}If these characteristics had been abandoned, why then go around looking for them?

You hit it right on the head.

[William Terrell]

There's no reason to assume the tribes moved as tribes and retained identity as tribes. Mixing it up with the Assyrians in alliance with other peoples and then getting out of the area probably did some real damage to their tribal structure.

It does appear that memory is returning, though, but probably as members of the Northern Kindom, not of a specific tribe therein, would be my guess.

[SunkenCiv]

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