The Celts are hardly "the Lost Tribes". Linguistically there isn't any connection, nor are Celts Semites. One major way the "Lost Tribes" became lost was through intermarriage with the Canaanite tribes around them. They lost their culture and left their religion, unlike their cousins to the south.
>The Celts are hardly "the Lost Tribes".
Make your case.
>Linguistically there isn't any connection,
Ask any real archeologist and he will tell you that language is the poorest way to attempt to determine who went where. Think about it, how many generations does it take immigrants to America to lose ALL linkeage with their ancestors language?
Having said that, there are a large number of links from ancient Hebrew to contemporary English. The author of the book on the
Assyrian Tablets in British Museum dedicates 12 pages in Chapter 11 just to that subject.
>nor are Celts Semites.
Would the Celts have to look like Yassir Arafat to be Semites? How may of these Jewish Semites could be easily confused for their Celtic cousins in Europe and America:
Joseph Lieberman, Paul Newman, Ted Koppel, Harrison Ford, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Kirk Douglas, Kevin Costner, Stephen Breyer, Yitzhak Rabin, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Mike Wallace, Benjamin Netanyahu, William Shatner, Douglas Fairbanks, Cary Grant, Leonard Bernstein, Paul Simon, Ariel Sharon, David Frost, Morley Safer, Ari Fleischer,
Jack Benny, Alan King, Casper Weinberger, Carl Reiner, George Burns, Red Buttons, Sam Levinson, Bernard Goldberg, Robert Downey Jr., Dustin Hoffman, Michael Douglas, Peter Sellers, Tony Curtis, Edward G. Robinson, Wolf Blitzer, Mel Torme, Paul Wellstone, Peter Falk, Leonard Nimoy, Jerry Springer, Arlen Spector, William Cohen,
Barry Goldwater, Robert Rubin, William Roth, Howard Metzenbaum, Hyman Rickover, Robert Reich, Russ Feinberg, Stanley Mosk, Arthur Burns, Milton Friedman, Bill Kristol, Victor Borge, William Kristol, Warren Rudman, etc., etc, etc.
The Celts and the Jews are genetic cousins. All are offspring from Jacob/Israel, and all are Hebrews, Semites, and Israelites. (See My LostTribe Profile below for more details...)
>One major way the "Lost Tribes" became lost was through intermarriage with the Canaanite tribes around them.
That is only speculation without any basis in fact. Besides, the Lost Tribes of Israel did not return to Canaan when they escaped the Assyrians. They went primarily to the West and NorthWest.
>They lost their culture and left their religion, unlike their cousins to the south.
That much is correct. Of course their cousins to the South (who much later became known as Jews) also left their Israelite religion for a time, and have been punished continuously for it ever since.