Posted on 03/09/2010 10:19:33 PM PST by Mount Athos
The Lemba people of Zimbabwe and South Africa may look like their compatriots, but they follow a very different set of customs and traditions.
They do not eat pork, they practise male circumcision, they ritually slaughter their animals, some of their men wear skull caps and they put the Star of David on their gravestones.
Their oral traditions claim that their ancestors were Jews who fled the Holy Land about 2,500 years ago.
It may sound like another myth of a lost tribe of Israel, but British scientists have carried out DNA tests which have confirmed their Semitic origin.
These tests back up the group's belief that a group of perhaps seven men married African women and settled on the continent. The Lemba, who number perhaps 80,000, live in central Zimbabwe and the north of South Africa.
Members of the priestly clan of the Lemba, known as the Buba, were even discovered to have a genetic element also found among the Jewish priestly line.
"This was amazing," said Prof Tudor Parfitt, from the University of London.
"It looks as if the Jewish priesthood continued in the West by people called Cohen, and in same way it was continued by the priestly clan of the Lemba.
"They have a common ancestor who geneticists say lived about 3,000 years ago somewhere in north Arabia, which is the time of Moses and Aaron when the Jewish priesthood started."
The Lemba have a sacred prayer language which is a mixture of Hebrew and Arabic, pointing to their roots in Israel and Yemen.
Despite their ties to Judaism, many of the Lemba in Zimbabwe are Christians, while some are Muslims.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
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So that’s how to find lost tribes, starve them out.
ggg
Ridiculous.
They must be like the Jews who wandered the desert, walking round the same mountain for 40 years, because this LOST tribe has been ‘found’ about 40 times.
How did they reproduce? Not the act, but meaning with whom?
The Ancient Egyptians couldn’t even get along with nations south of Ethiopia. Neither could the Ethiopians.
With women, African ones, too. In what later became Zimbabwe. When in Rome and all that, you know.
Did you read the article, lol?
What once was lost, now is found...again...but this time for sure...
Nothing new. Almost all of the original Christians were Jews.
Are they black? In which case that should tell us something about how long it takes for “races” to develop. I believe we’ve been told it takes millions of years.
“Nothing new. Almost all of the original Christians were Jews.”
Including Jesus and all the disciples/apostles!
Sure they're black. And the situation tells us precisely nothing about "the development of races". A small group of Semites migrates into an area of Negroids, and intermarries. Does it surprise anyone that their descendants have the characteristics of the majority population??
Dude, if they have a smidgeon of semitic ancestry that’s all well and good, but the whole “intermarrying with the native black folk” thing would require that the output of their unions, 3,00 years later, would most likely appear to be 100% african folks, albeit with little skullcaps on their heads and Stars of David on their tombstones.
I guess I was assuming they had females as well as males among them, and that they followed the laws against intermarriage with non-Jews.
They were following other laws, so of course I thought they were following all of them.
As I posted above I did not assume intermarriage, since that’s against the OT law.
As an aside, there were jews in Peking hundreds of years ago. They looked asian!
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