somebody swore to me that ancient Celtic and other steppes tribes runes were closely similar to ancient pre-Aramaic Hebrew Runes...fwiw.
folks have long clamoured for a link to the ancients from whom we derive our faith and a good chunk of our later(maybe) culture.
That may well be. I've seen the translation of the words back and forth between different languages that tie the scythians and keltoi to one of the Israeli tribal names directly - as well as the term Samauria. These all generally are legends that derive from Assyria in one way or another and, as I noted earlier, Assyria kept the best of the Israelite warriors after they conquered the norther Kingdom. What groups were the best of their warriors... The coincidentals of the languages add up. It would be nice to see more facts.