[Jeff Gordon]

I am only interested in historic truths.

Anthropological DNA studies will uncover the truh behind this. There have some very interesting results from tracing the DNA of the Jewish Cohan family name and the profession of Rabbi.

[Inyokern]

There have some very interesting results from tracing the DNA of the Jewish Cohan family name and the profession of Rabbi.

I think you mean the priests, not the rabbis. A rabbi is just a guy who goes to rabbinical school. Priests are hereditary. The Hebrew word for priest is Cohen.

There have indeed been DNA studies showing that Cohens all around the world are descended from the same man. Theoretically, that man should be Aaron.

[blam]

"There have some very interesting results from tracing the DNA of the Jewish Cohan family name and the profession of Rabbi."

I found that study interesting also. (I am still suspicious of DNA studies though)

[LostTribe]

>There have some very interesting results from tracing the DNA of the Jewish Cohan family name and the profession of Rabbi.

There were several long and interesting threads here on FR last year (before you joined us) regarding the apparent fraud which was an integral part of several such DNA "studies". The techniques, objectivity and alleged "results" were roundly denounced by world-class DNA scientists.

The common thread which seemed to hlld these "studies" together was the consistant "proving" of what the financial sponsors set out to prove, without regard to scientific integrity.