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To: LostTribe
Personally, i've always thought the Jews were one of the lost Hindu tribes ;)
31 posted on 07/21/2002 10:30:57 AM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: swarthyguy
>Personally, i've always thought the Jews were one of the lost Hindu tribes ;)

Well, there's certainly nothing that prohibits a few "strays" from any of the tribes ending up somewhere. As you can see from the population numbers at my Profile, we are talking LOTS and LOTS of people, especially from the Northern Kingdom.

Since only ~50,000 Judeans returned from Babylon, that leaves another half million unaccounted for. Technically they are not Jews since only those who returned from Babylon were accorded that name, but they certainly were Judeans, and essentially the same people. They also knew and practised the tradition (we assume), even though they didn't return. Maybe some of them ended up in India?

That cannot be said for the Northern Kingdom taken into Assyrian captivity. They had lost virtually all contact with their religious and cultural roots even BEFORE their captivity. That, along with their diaspora was part of their punishment. They carried little or none of it into captivity or beyond. That's why its such a big error to attempt to find the Lost 10 Tribes of Israel practising any ancient Israelite customs. And that's why obscure little tribes found here and there, practising ancient Israelite customs or claiming to be The Lost Tribes (for whatever reason) are most certainly not.

37 posted on 07/21/2002 10:46:36 AM PDT by LostTribe
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