[Dr. Frank fan]

Variants of the above, found in British Israelism and Mormonism, are without a shred of historical, archeological, anthropological, philological, genetic, or any other evidence.

Does this mean you actually understood the content of Library Lady's post?

I was intensely curious to discover what the heck it would mean for "the United States" to be descended from Manasseh. Which people in the United States? The Indians? The British colonists (but then why not just say all of England is descended from Manasseh)? the Dutch? I was dying to know.

And now you've burst my bubble saying there's nothing to it to begin with. Darn! ;-)

[aruanan]

There's a lot available on the web about this movement. Here's one that is fairly succinct and not hysterical.