Who has based their arguments on the fact that English isn't identical to Hebrew? I've seen that nowhere on this thread. Vade says that Hebrew isn't related to latin. So since the British and Americans speak a language that is in the latin family rather than in the Hebrew family that we can't be genetic descendants of Hebrews. That argument is senseless. Language is learned, we're not born with it.
Interestingly, I addressed Italian and Japanese progeny living in America at #343. To say that they don't speak a lick of their ancestral tongues isn't accurate.
They had to make an effort to do it. Are they going to continue this effort for 2500 years? My Indian friends don't speak Indian. LOL
Sushi and spaghetti are preserved, as are other words.
As are Hebrew words in modern language. If you're really interest grab a Strong's concordance and start comparing. I did and found a hit in Gen 1:1, the very first one I looked at. Earth and erets. There are plenty more and you can see for yourself if you really think this is important. I don't think it's importasnt because I know languages are learned from environment and the Israelites were in a whole different environment as they fought their way across Europe.
Not only that, they've entered the common parlance of American English, despite vastly more methodic and comprehensive forces for assimilation. Linguists of the future will be able to infer interaction between America and both Japan and Italy from these relic words.
And there are a lot of Hebrew words that are with us also.
Where are the corresponding relic words from which we can infer any interaction between the Celts and the Lost Tribes?
Look yourself. I found one in the very first verse I looked at Gen 1:1. See what you can find yourself. This argument is dumb and a diversion started by an atheist.
Maybe they exist, but I'm still waiting for evidence of them.
Look, look, look and you'll will find. I'm not doing your work for you. It doesn't prove anything to me. Learned language is highly innaccurate way of following the movements of people. If you had a time machine and went to England in 1500, you wouldn't understand anything they were saying.
Vade says that Hebrew isn't related to latin. So since the British and Americans speak a language that is in the latin family rather than in the Hebrew family that we can't be genetic descendants of Hebrews. That argument is senseless. Language is learned, we're not born with it.
I don't believe he made the genetic equation (though I could be wrong, so I'll flag him here), he was saying that since Hebrew is a Semitic language, and that English (like Latin or German) is an Indo-European one, that poses problems for a Celtic theory of the Lost Tribes.
He's right, it does, though as I've tried to make clear, the problems aren't necessarily insurmountable, they simply need addressing.
My Indian friends don't speak Indian.
Do they read "pundits?" Wear "pajamas?"
As are Hebrew words in modern language. If you're really interest grab a Strong's concordance and start comparing.
What I'm really interested in is seeing people making claims doing the work to support their claims. When I make claims, I will do likewise.
And there are a lot of Hebrew words that are with us also.
Great. I'm all ears.
Understand, I believe in the contemporary existence of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. I'd be tickled to see someone conclusively sew this up, and I don't care if the answer is the Celts, the Afghans, the Kashmiris, pre-Columbian Americans, or Oompa Loomas on the dark side of the Moon.
This argument is dumb and a diversion started by an atheist.
#1, that is a double ad hominem, and #2, while VadeRetro is an agnostic with whom I've butted heads on theological and scientific questions in the past, I am a Christian and his linguistic question here is absolutely legitimate.
Look, look, look and you'll will find. I'm not doing your work for you.
It is not my work, it is properly the work of those who are championing the the Celtic Lost Tribe theory.
If I was to make a claim that the Lost Tribes settled Easter Island, then it's up to me to support that claim. You get to sit back and ask the questions in such an instance.
This is how it is, this wheel needs no reinvention.
