Posted on 03/14/2005 6:53:09 PM PST by blam
We had a FReeper named 'LostTribe' (he got banned), who thinks the Celts were the Northern Tribe(s).
No, I am not saying, nor trying to imply, that. Post 30 was inadvertently sent to this thread. My mistake.
Unfortunately, it took several attempts through the afternoon to get it removed.
Lemba? Isn't that where the elves get thier grain for Lembas, the fabulous trail mix of the Middle Earth?
I'm not a big fan of "lost tribes" theories, but this is a better story than those people in Uganda (with the long name) who "converted" to Judaism in the Twenties. They are under the influence of "Reform" and subscribe to liberal Biblical theories--downright bizarre when you think of how alien their culture must be from that of Western liberals.
Hers are two more
http://www.cohen-levi.org/the_tribe/kohanim_forever.htm
http://www.khazaria.com/genetics/abstracts-cohen-levite.html
bttt
Very interesting, as Arte Johnson used to say. Here's what I said about the Lemba on an African history webpage I wrote last year:
Most of the West African kingdoms that came along after Ghana also gave their monarchs a foreign origin, usually declaring that an Arab or Berber founded the dynasty. Though possible, such stories should be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism, since the Arabs and Berbers are white, while these kings and their people were always black by the time historical records about them appear. Likewise, the city-states on the East African coast, like Kilwa, claimed that their first kings were Arabs. They probably made such claims to give the royal family an impressive Islamic lineage, just as the Christian kings of Abyssinia claimed descent from Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (see Chapter 4).
However, in at least one case such legends may be correct. In 1999 members of the Lemba, a small South African tribe that claims Jewish ancestry, submitted to DNA testing, and their men have the so-called "Cohanim gene," a structure on the Y chromosome that so far has only been found with Levites. White Jews are debating whether the Lemba are really Jewish as we go to press, just as they did when Ethiopia's Falashas moved to Israel in the 1980s.
Source: http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/africa/af05.html , footnote #8
Glad you did. . .very interesting; and a great break from the politics of the day.
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I also heard about a group of Yemeni Jews that actually settled the East African coast called the Ha-Redeye. Some pages state that the Lemba come from them, which adds more plausability to the story.
Welcome to FRee Republic. I did a search on the Ha-redeye people and all I could find was thing about a guy named Omar Ha-redeye. Can you provide a link?
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