Brit-Am Anthropology, DNA Update, and Creation Science
14 May 2023; 23 Iyar, 5783.
Contents:
1. Most Adulterous Nations (Men and Women).
2. Were Early US Pioneer Settlers often of Jewish Descent!!?
Challenging the Fundamental Premise of White Supremacy: DNA Documents the Jewish Origins of the New England Colony
by Elizabeth C. Hirschman.
3. Philistine DNA - Early Samples from Southern Europe?
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1. Most Adulterous Nations (Men and Women)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/adultery-countries-most-unfaithful-5188791
10. Finland 36%.
9. United Kingdom 36%.
8. Spain 39%
7. Belgium 40%
6. Norway 41%
5. France 43%
4. Germany 45%
3. Italy 45%
2. Denmark 46%
1. Thailand 56%
Note:
We do not know what these figures really mean but it is not positive.
The list place seven Israelite Nations (Denmark, France, Norway, Belgium, UK, and Finland in the top 10!
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2. Were Early US Pioneer Settlers often of Jewish Descent!!?
Challenging the Fundamental Premise of White Supremacy: DNA Documents the Jewish Origins of the New England Colony
by
Elizabeth C. Hirschman
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/10/6/232
Recent DNA research on the descendants of the colonial settlers of Central Appalachia (Hirschman et al. 2019a), the Mayflower/Plymouth colony (Hirschman et al. 2018), the Roanoke Colony (Hirschman et al. 2019b), and the Post-Civil War outlaws Jesse and Frank James, the Cole Younger gang, and the Hatfield Clan of West Virginia (Hirschman and Vance 2021) have shown that these persons were of Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jewish ancestry, supplemented with Southeastern Europe and Southern India ancestry. The present study extends these findings to men in the Colonial Massachusetts colony.
One may ask when and how Ashkenazi Jews, who we usually associate with Eastern Europe, could have arrived in England? The answer lies in the Norman Conquest of 1066. Documents dating from this period show that William I brought large numbers of Ashkenazi Jews from Normandy in Northern France near the Alsace Lorraine Region into England during and after his conquest of that country. According to some records, he believed Jews were needed to serve as bankers and financial agents so that he could enact his ambitious post-Conquest building program. Christians, at that time, were not allowed to engage in usury, and William may have had pre-existing relationships with the large Ashkenazi community in Northern France (see, e.g., Golb 1998; Jacobs [1887] 1893; Samuel 2004).
Over the next few centuries, this led to several Jewish families becoming large landowners and government administrators, often with noble titles (Jacobs [1887] 1893). Some Jewish bankers, such as Aaron of Lincoln and Licoricia of Oxford, became extremely rich. However, most of the incoming Jews filled a range of occupations within their English communities as doctors, goldsmiths, silversmiths, vintners, cloth merchants, and fishmongers. They lived in many parts of England and Wales, sometimes in distinct communities practicing their rituals, but often alongside the wider population (Jacobs [1887] 1893). Jews were allowed to travel freely across England and Wales and were granted a 'Charter of Liberties' by King Henry I, meaning they could shelter in any of the King's castles if they were in danger (Jacobs [1887] 1893).
Our principal hypothesis is that the Massachusetts Bay Colony was settled by persons whose male ancestors were Ashkenazi Jews arriving in England from 1066 CE to the early 1200s CE. These persons had been living in northern (Normandy) France and migrated to England at the invitation of William I after his Conquest of England in 1066 CE. The original Ashkenazi Jewish population was formed in the Holy Roman Empire during the late 900s CE by Jews moving westward from the Holy Land, Italy (formerly the Roman Empire), and the Mediterranean Region, and the population was located primarily in northern France and Germany (Vital 1999).
This research has examined male colonists emigrating from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early 1600s for whom DNA samples are available. By using public genealogical databases, we have shown that most were likely of Ashkenazic Jewish descent.
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Brit-Am Note:
I am not qualified to judge the above book. Our impression however is that it may be exaggerated and perhaps mistaken.
Elizabeth C. Hirschman co-authored a similar work, "When Scotland was Jewish."
When Scotland Was Jewish: DNA Evidence, Archeology, Analysis of Migrations, and Public and Family Records Show Twelfth Century Semitic Roots
https://books.google.co.il/books/about/When_Scotland_Was_Jewish.html?id=Op3cC6_UNnQC&redir_esc=y
We read that work and also followed a long and laborious debate about it on an on-line DNA Discussion group.
The argument of the authors did not emerge as convincing.
We for our part would be only TOO happy if it was otherwise.
Nevertheless, it is may be a good sign that such research is underway and arousing interest.
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3. Philistine DNA - Early Samples from Southern Europe?
https://www.science.org/content/article/biblical-philistines-archenemies-ancient-israelites-hailed-europe-dna-reveals
The team analyzed 1.24 million sites across the genomes of 10 skeletons. Three of the oldest individuals, who lived 3500 to 3700 years ago, were not distinguishable genetically from local Levantine people. But DNA from four infants buried beneath the earthen floors of homes in Ashkelon 500 years later, when Philistine culture first appears, told a different story. They had inherited 25% to 70% of their DNA from southern European ancestors, and the closest matches were to ancient people from the Aegean, Sardinia, and Iberia. The remaining DNA was from local people, suggesting their European ancestors had quickly mated with their new neighbors. Indeed, two styles of pottery in neighboring houses suggest that Philistines and Levantines lived side-by-side in Ashkelon.
Just 200 year later, however, the DNA of three adults, presumably Philistines, fully matched that of local Levantine people. Intermarriage had swamped the genetic heritage of the European immigrants, Krause suggests.
With the study "we finally have real scientific proof that people moved into Ashkelon from Europe," says Kristian Kristiansen, an archaeologist at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, who suspects they hailed from Italy. But it will take ancient DNA from across southern Europe to pinpoint their homeland.