Posted on 06/10/2010 9:08:00 AM PDT by GOPGuide
Thanks, that’s what I thought. I have known very few blond and/or blue-eyed Jews. A few redheads. That’s why “so many” in the article stuck me as odd.
there is some validity to that but in a cultural tradition whereby being in the tribe is mostly a birthright it comes with the territory and for no small reason academia in Israel spends a lot of time and money on this subject
Columbus, based on several biographies, was from Genoa. And an often used shorthand, Genevoese, referring to Jewish Italians is common, yet I believe that there isn't any evidence that he was Jewish. Will Durant in his "Story of Philosophy" speculated on this as well suggesting that 1492's Voyage to the New World was not a search for riches but for a refuge for the Jews as the date coincided with the beginning of the Inquisition in Spain. Would appreciate references for Columbus and DaVinci as well.
Sure...Rome was known as Hymietown [Hymianus Urbs...]
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The blond hair and blue eyes are because Jewish women have for centuries been the object of cruelties at the hands of the minions of many emperors, chieftains, sultans, boyars, kings, czars, and fuehrers.
There is a sad but pragmatic reason that Jews trace their ancestry matrilineally.
Whenever you see the Rothschild’s name brought up, you know you’re dealing with a crackpot.
The Jewish people, according to(ignorant) archaeologists, originated in Babylon and Persia between the 4th and 6th centuries BC.
No, the Jews were descendants of Abraham (2000 BC) and he originated from Ur in Chaldea (whey they are genetically close to Persians). The Exodus is 490 years later, and King David approx.900 BC.
The professor asked,”Oh my, what do they teach in schools these days?”
Jews adopted matrilineal descent prior to the diaspora...sometime around Augustus I think
btw...
all women were subject to the sexual whims of the nobility and conquerers
not just Jewish women
my own ancestors too I’d reckon
Celts by Romans..
then Pax Romana Britons by Saxons
then Saxons by Danes
then all by Normans and so forth
I’ve seen studies that Med peoples were fairer in Biblical times than now....Romans and Greeks for sure and Phonecian type and Jews too possibly..who knows
the wackiest is that Iceland is really the Lost Tribe of Benjamen
http://www.artisanpublishers.com/icelands-great-inheritance-reprint-1937-p-25742.html
some of these folks are sincere...some are Pete Peters.
not too hard to distinguish
I still struggle to understand the concept of Jewishness. At times it seems like a genetic lineage, at other times it seems like a faith. I could convert to orthodox Judaism, but since I have no Jewish ancestry (that I know of), it seems that I would still not really be part of the “tribe”. As for genetic lineage, it seems that a completely nonobservant Jew with the proper ancestry is still a Jew. In Islam, the lineage comes from the father but if a child rejects Islam, they are not only infidels but apostates worthy of death. In most other faiths, genetics has nothing to do with them. You either adopt the faith or don’t.
I wondered how many posts I would have to scroll down on before someone pointed this out. Once again science proves the Word of God.
Hey there! I havn’t noticed you posting lately. A Freeper asked me today about whatever happened to Laurie Dhue. I told him I didn’t know but I remembered a Freeper named “Do the Dhue”! LOL!
Ping.
I would take a gander and say that was because of the conquering Ottomans...
Here's a LINK to one of many online articles based on those 2 books.
As for Jawabac's swipe against America - "residents of Iroquois territory" - the Iroquois nation was itself built on warfare against other tribes, enslavement of the conquered and occupation of their lands. Many other Native American tribes were wiped out by the Iroquois. They make a poor choice for poster children against the morality of colonial European Americans.
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