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From: "MichaelDaniels" <>
Subject: Re the current Jewish discussion and The Thirteen Tribe.
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 00:38:00 +0100
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From: "William Johnson" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 10:11 AM
Subject: [Huguenot] Re the current Jewish discussion


> One has to be careful of some books that intended as anti Israeli
material.
> I think the truth is actually that jews from the holy land settled in
> Khazaria (near Armenia, Kurdistan). After the King married a jewish girl,
> judaism was adopted as are an official religion of the kingdom. Later
> judaism was no longer held as the national religion and the people who
> wanted to keep their religion(maybe a few Khazar, probably most semitic in
> origin) moved up through Ukraine into Russia, Poland, Germany etc. This is
> backed up by recent genetic tests that show that many Ashkenazi jewish
> people share the same y chromosome as Kurds and Palestinians indicating a
> hebrew/semitic origin to these peoples.
>
> Regards,
>
> Will

Hi

Like 'evidence', 'statistics' on origins, family ancestry, we interpret
things
the way we wish to believe. What conflicts tends to be ruled out or
conveniently overlooked. Who's right and who's wrong, one takes ones
choice. DNA testing might give some indication of who our ancient
forebears were, but this approach is a means that produces data that
must be viewed with the greatest caution since the information is gathered
from such a minute sample of the world population. Many folk who it
might be interesting to test, may not, for religious, ethnicity reasons, be
prepared to take part. After all it is a scientific process and for a lot
of
people may have some dubious connotations. And DNA testing is now
a growth industry and there's money to be made by the laboratories
so their data may reflect a certain commercial requirement.

I think the point made in the book is that the Khazar 'Russian' tribe con-
sidered it a good proposition to embrace the Jewish faith. Not sure
their forerunners were from Abraham's homeland. They're just the
sort of candidates we need to step forward and undergo DNA
investigation.

Regards

Michael



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