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I believe in the Genesis account of the dispersal of the nations following the Tower of Babel and the confounding of the languages as described in Genesis 11. Given that mankind slowly spread across the earth in the centuries following that event, it is likely that while the descendants of Ham migrated to Africa, for the most part, and those of Japheth to Europe, residual populations remained in the Middle East. Thus the Egyptians and the Canaanites, who were Hamitic, and the Persians and the Hyskos, who were Japhetic (Indo-Europeans) were close physical neighbors to the Semitic nations. The Semitic and Indo-European language families are clearly different in vocabulary and grammar, and their sepration occured at the Tower of Babel. The breakdown from the original Indo-European into Germanic, Keltic, Italic, Sanskrit, etc., took place as the various tribes descended from Japheth spread northward, westward, and eastward from the Middle Eastern point of origin. However, the Tower of Babel event and the subsequent dispersion of humanity began well before 2000 BC, the approximate date of the birth of Abraham, the founder of the Jewish nation. By the time the 12 tribes were conquered and expelled from the Holy Land (7th and 6th Centuries BC), the proto-Celts had settled a large portion of Western and Central Europe, with some Celts also living in Turkey and the proto-Germans had established their territory in northern Germany and Scandinavia, with some possibly in Ukraine.

"I believe in the Genesis account of the dispersal of the nations following the Tower of Babel and the confounding of the languages as described in Genesis 11. "

I'm not very religious so, a lot of the bibical things are unknown to me. My main interests are anthropology/archaeology but, they do cross paths with the religious from time to time.

"By the time the 12 tribes were conquered and expelled from the Holy Land (7th and 6th Centuries BC), the proto-Celts had settled a large portion of Western and Central Europe, with some Celts also living in Turkey and the proto-Germans had established their territory in northern Germany and Scandinavia, with some possibly in Ukraine.""

Does this make it impossible for any link between the 10 tribes absorbed into Assyria and the early Celts?
Did the Assyrians allow the 10 tribes to have the freedom of maintaining their bloodlines pure?

Based upon what tid bit of historical writings can you claim Ham went to Africa? I cannot find anything in the Word that even comes close to making Ham the father of the Egyptians

The Tower of Babel which you seek to make the dispersal of people was long before Abraham, and THAT PROMISE.

Those 12 tribes were distinct individuals, and each was given a distinct blessing. Abraham was told that his seed would be as numerous as the sands of the shore and stars in the heavens, ever tried counting either.

Personally I don't care what you believe, but I will respond when you put forth "JUNK" to disprove cause it is not PC to even consider.

Don't you consider it just a least bit telling that Christ first instruction was to go to but the lost sheep of the house of Israel and just who the "free" blessed nations of this day are?

This is not about a super race, cause if one reads about those children of Israel, they were stubborn, stiffneck and would not listen, but that promise to Abraham still holds to this day.

I believe in the Genesis account of the dispersal... the descendants of Ham migrated to Africa... Japheth to Europe... The Semitic and Indo-European language families are clearly different in vocabulary and grammar, and their sepration occured at the Tower of Babel.

May I ask the origins of the Oriental peoples? Although the Latter-day Saints do not have an official position in the matter, many (not all) believe the Asians to be Japhethites and subscibe to some variation of the British-Israel theory for the origins of the northern Europeans.