BARS-129

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BARS-129. Brit-Am Research Sources
http://hebrewnations.com/features/bars/bars129.html
Contents:
1. Where did the Philistines come from?
2. Tin from the British isles, Copper from Ross Island
3. Philistine Origins-DNA
4. Nordic Israelism
5. French Israelism
6. British Israelism
7. Robert Ley: Nazis  Equated England with the Jews
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1. Where did the Philistines come from?
https://www.quora.com/Where-did-the-Philistines-come-from

Asked to answer:

Where did the Philistines come from?

According to a feature in Bible History Daily, an archaeological find of a nearly4-foot-tall, two-horned altar from the site of Tell es-Safi (Gath of the Philistines) suggests the origins of the Philistines are to be sought in the Aegean world. http://www.biblicalarchaeology.o...

The Aegean world is composed of three distinctive regions, all located at the Eastern edge of the Mediterranean: the island of Crete, the mainland of Greece, and the islands between the mainland and the coast of Anatolia. The people of the mainland, the Mycenaeans, were Greek-speaking. The inhabitants of the island of Crete were the Minoans, who spoke an as yet undeciphered language. The islanders were apparently non-Greek,and fell into the political and cultural orbit of the Minoans and later the Mycenaeans in the second millennium bce. The Aegeans sharedmany cultural traits with the Near East, but retained a distinctive regional character. The Minoans and Myceneans had palace cultures shortly after 2000 bce, but for the people of the islands, no such claim can be made. http://www.encyclopedia.com/envi...


Linda Olsvig Whittaker,
Exctract:

Good question! I work with Aren Maeir of Bar Ilan University, an authority on the Philistines (Tel es-Safi is his site). He tells me culturally they are mostly Aegean, but there seem to be elements from as far away as Sardinia, and as close as Anatolia.


We now have Philistine DNA so hopefully we can start pinning it down a bit better.
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2.. Tin from the British isles, Copper from Ross Island
The Provenance, Use, and Circulation of Metals in the European Bronze Age: The State of Debate
Journal of Archaeological Research, , 2018

Kristian Kristiansen
Miljana Radivojevi
+ 17 More

https://www.academia.edu/37026723/The_Provenance_Use_and_Circulation_of_Metals_in_the_European_Bronze_Age_The_State_of_Debate?email_work_card=view-paper
It is within this context that the recent development of tin isotope analysis�cur-rently by the ERC-funded, Tin Isotopes and the Sources of Bronze Age Tin in theOld World (BronzeAgeTin) Project (Table
 
1) may enable small variations in thetin isotope abundance ratios of the tin sources of Bronze Age bronze objects to beidenti ed. The pioneering application of tin isotope analysis on the Nebra Sky Discfound in Germany indicated that the tin within the bronze did not derive from therelatively close tin ores in the Erzgebirge (Figs.
 
1 and2) but instead is consistentwith ores in Cornwall in southwestern England (Haustein et
 
al.2010).
SAM suggested that the copper group in Britain ultimatelyderived from central Europe, while today it is known that Ross Island was a majorsource of arsenical copper for the British Isles in the late Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age.The Oxford Group maintains that the

On the other hand, tin ore deposits are far fewer than copper deposits and are extremely unevenly distributed. The largest deposits are in western and central Europe e.g., Cornwall, Brittany, the western Iberian Peninsula, and the Erzgebirge(Giumlia-Mair and Lo Schiavo2003; McGeehan-Liritzis and Taylor1987; Merideth1998; Penhallurick1986) with much smaller tin mineralizations found elsewhere(e.g., Ireland, southern France, Italy, and the Balkans) (see Fig.
 
1).
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3. Philistine Origins DNA

Know thine enemy: DNA study solves ancient riddle of origins of the Philistines

https://www.timesofisrael.com/know-thine-enemy-dna-study-solves-ancient-riddle-of-origins-of-the-philistines/?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral
High-tech analysis finds empirical proof that the Kingdom of Israel's biblical foes came to the Holy Land from southern Europe

By AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN3 July 2019, 9:00 pm1

DNA analysis was completed on samples from three periods within the Bronze and Iron ages (~3,600-2,800 years ago) from remains of Canaanites and early and late Philistines, which were taken from three sites: a Philistine cemetery discovered in 2016, graves discovered in the 1990s, and infant burials uncovered under Philistine homes.

Through analysis of ten ancient individuals' DNA, the study suggests that Philistines reached Ashkelon from Europe by the early Iron Age. After two centuries, however, the European genetic markers were dwarfed by the Levantine gene pool, suggesting intensive intermarriage. The Philistine culture and peoplehood remained distinct from other local communities for six centuries.

'With this study we finally have direct evidence that fits and builds upon the hypothesis of Philistine origins from the western Mediterranean,' Daniel M. Master, director of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon and head of the archaeological team, told The Times of Israel this week.
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4. Nordic Israelism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Israelism
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Extracts:
History
Early predecessors

Henry Spelman, who in 1620 connected the Danes to the Tribe of Dan
A 15th-century Latin chronicle, "Chronicon Holsatiae vetus", found in Gottfried Leibniz's Accessiones historicae (1698), states the Danes were of the Tribe of Dan, while the Jutes the Jews.[1] Later the antiquarian Henry Spelman in 1620 had further claimed that the Danes were the Israelite Tribe of Dan, based on the apparent similarity in name.[2] In the 18th century the Swedish historian Olof von Dalin believed that the ancient Finns (alongside Lapps and Estonians) who sprung from the Neuri descended ultimately from the lost tribes of Israel:

...the Neuri seem to be remnants of the Ten Tribes of Israel which Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, brought as captives out of Canaan... [When one realises that] the language of the ancient Finns, Lapps and Estonians is similar to the Hebrew and even that this people in ancient times reckoned their year's beginning from the first of March, and Saturday as their Sabbath, then one sees that the Neuri in all probability had this origin."[3]

John Eurenius (1688-1751), a Swedish pastor in Torsaker, Angermanland, Sweden, also connected the Israelites to the Nordic countries, in his Atlantica Orientalis (1751) he theorised that the Gods of Norse mythology were deified ancestors from the Levant, who he connected to Israel.[4] Olof Rudbeck the Younger in the 18th century also attempted to prove that the Nordic languages sprung from Hebrew.[5]

Anna Larssen Bjorner (1875-1955) and Sigurd Bj-rner (1875-1953), the founders of Danish Pentecostalism and the "Apostolic Church" in Denmark are considered to have been early pioneers in the Nordic-Israelism movement. They published from the 1920s a quarterly magazine entitled Evangeliebladet which covered identifications of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel with Denmark, other Scandinavian countries and published some British Israelism literature.[2] They also published regular articles from other proponents of the Nordic Israel identity, including those of Ole Jorgen Johnsen, a Norwegian preacher from Hasla who authored Israel i de siste dage ("Israel in the Last Days") in 1924.

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5. French Israelism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Israelism

French Israelism (also called Franco-Israelism) is the belief that people of Frankish descent are also the direct lineal descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, and it is often accompanied by the belief that the Merovingian dynasty is directly descended from the line of King David.

One of the earliest scholars who claimed that he could trace the ten lost tribes of Israel to France was the French Huguenot writer, Jacques Abbadie, who fled French Roman Catholic persecution and later settled in London, England. In his important 1723 work, The Triumph Of Providence, he wrote:

God opened, as one might say, the tomb of the Ten Tribes by the conversion of the Northern Peoples... Certainly, unless the Ten Tribes have flown into the air, or been plunged into the center of the earth, we must look for them in the North, and in that part of the North, which at the time of Constantine was converted to the Christian faith...The Ten Tribes have since seen conversion into Christian nations, which they are, having thousands of God-fearing ministers in their midst, a people marked by physical possession of the Gospel as servants of God, and reunited with many of their brethren of Judah in the Christian church. This explanation allows us to see the historical fulfillment of the prophetic picture in the Gothic warriors, prepared for conquest, destined for empire, and ancestors of the tribes who inhabit this nation [France]. (Translation from the French by M.F. Bennett, The Servant People.[1])

The claim became the foundation for the Priory of Sion hoax created by Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Ch�risey in the 1960s, and it was further popularized in 1982 with the book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail,[1] and in 2003 with The Da Vinci Code.
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6. British Israelism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Israelism
According to Brackney (2012) and Fine (2015), the French Hugenot magistrate M. le Loyer's The Ten Lost Tribes, published in 1590, provided the first expression that "Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Scandinavian, Germanic, and associated cultures"[6] were direct descendants of the ancient Israelites.[1] Anglo-Israelism has also been attributed to Francis Drake and James VI and I,[6] who believed he was the King of Israel.[1] Adriaan van Schrieck (1560-1621), who influenced Henry Spelman (1562-1641) and John Sadler (1615-1674), wrote in the early 17th century about his ideas on the origins of the Celtic and Saxon peoples. In 1649, Sadler published The Rights of the Kingdom, "which argues for an 'Israelite genealogy for the British people'".[6]

Aspects of British Israelism and its influences have also been traced to Richard Brothers' A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies and Times in 1794, John Wilson's Our Israelitish Origin (1840s), and John Pym Yeatman's The Shemetic Origin of the Nations of Western Europe (1879).

In 1919, the British-Israel-World Federation (BIWF) was founded in London, and Covenant Publishing was founded in 1922. William Pascoe Goard was the first director of the publishing house. During this time, several prominent figures patronized the BIWF organization and its publisher; Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone was Patron-in-chief in pre-World War II days. One of the highest profile members was William Massey, then Prime Minister of New Zealand. Due to the expansive nature of the British Empire, believers in British Israelism spread worldwide and the BIWF expanded its organization to the commonwealth. Howard Rand promoted the teaching and became National Commissioner of the Anglo-Saxon Federation of America in 1928. He published The Bulletin, later renamed The Messenger of the Covenant. More recently, it has been renamed Destiny.[7]:57

During its peak in the early 20th century, British Israelism was also supported by John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher.[citation needed] A prolific author on British Israelism during the later 1930s and 40s was Alexander James Ferris.[citation needed]
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7. Robert Ley: Nazis  Equated England with the Jews

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ley
He was aware in general terms of the Nazi regime's programme of extermination of the Jews of Europe. Ley encouraged it through the virulent anti-Semitism of his publications and speeches. In February 1941 he was present at a meeting along with Speer, Bormann and Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel at which Hitler had set out his views on the "Jewish question" at some length, making it clear that he intended the "disappearance" of the Jews one way or another.

During the Second World War Ley was considered an important figure in Hitler's government. W argued on radio on 9th January, 1940, that Ley was "one of the most important members of the Nazi regime". He quoted Ley as saying: "We know that this war is an ideological struggle against world Jewry. England is allied with the Jews against Germany. How low must the English people have fallen to have had as war minister a parasitical and profiteering Jew of the worst kind... England is spiritually, politically and economically at one with the Jews. For us, England and the Jews remain the common foe." (59)

 Robert Ley, suicide note (24th October, 1945)
# We have forsaken God, and therefore we were forsaken by God. We put human volition in the place of His godly grace. In anti-Semitism we violated a basic commandment of His creation. Anti-Semitism distorted our outlook, and we made grave errors. It is hard to admit mistakes, but the whole existence of our people is in question; we Nazis must have the courage to rid ourselves of anti-Semitism. We have to declare to the youth that it was a mistake. #