Brit-Am Research Sources
Contents:
1. Source on Ancient Britain
A. R. BURN, M.A., HOLY MEN ON ISLANDS in pre-Christian Britain
2. Rediscovering Western.Christian Civilization
The Antiquity of the Anglo-Israel Thesis by Reed Benson
3. Early British Imperial Interest in Palestine.
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1. Source on Ancient Britain
A. R. BURN, M.A., HOLY MEN ON ISLANDS in pre-Christian Britain
https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/gas.1969.1.1.2
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2. Rediscovering Western.Christian Civilization
The Antiquity of the Anglo-Israel Thesis
By Reed Benson
http://www.reedbenson.com/Antiquity%20of%20Israel%20Thesis.htm
Extracts:
Mainstream academics posit that an eccentric English gentleman, Richard Brothers (1757-1824), developed the notion rather recently, only about two hundred years ago. Brothers also claimed that he himself was to inherit the throne of England and went on to be incarcerated in an insane asylum for several years on the grounds of possible treason. He thus gives the appearance of being non-credible. If he were the founder of the Kingdom Israel message, it indeed got off to a rocky start.
John Bunyan (1628-1688), the author of Pilgrim's Progress (written from a prison cell), believed he was an Israelite according to the Jewish Rabbi Louis Finkelstein who analyzed his works: "Bunyan actually fancied himself an Israelite . . ."
Johannes Jacobi Eurenius (1688-1751), a Swedish dean and pastor in Angermanland and Torsaker, was an advocate that the Hebrews had many connections to Western European regions in ancient times and believed the Swedes, along with the other Europeans, were Israelites. Among his other arguments he observed a linguistic relationship and stated in his book Atlantica Orientalis: "Furthermore, the language which we have kept confirms that our ancestors have sprung from the fled Israelites and Scythians, since we have an extraordinary mixture of the languages through which the Israelites stayed during their exodus out of the Orient and wandered through."
Dr. Jacques Abaddie, a French Huguenot who was forced to flee France, eventually settled in Ireland and became the Dean of Killaloe. In his four volume-work Le Triomphe de la Providence et de la Religion, published in 1723, he wrote this: "Certainly, unless the Ten Tribes have flown into the air, or been plunged to the earth's centre, they must be sought in that part of the North . . . namely among the Iberians, Armenians, and Scythians; for that was the place of their dispersion, the wilderness where God caused them to dwell in tents . . . Perhaps if the subject was carefully examined, it would be found that the nations who in the fifth age made irruption into the Roman Empire, and who Procopius reduced to ten in number, were in effect the Ten Tribes who made their home in Europe . . . Everything fortifies this conjecture; the extraordinary multiplication of this people, marked so precisely by the prophets, the number of the tribes, the custom of those nations to dwell in tents, according to the oracles, and many other usages of the Scythians similar to those of the children of Israel."
Henry Spelman (1562-1641) was a noted English scholar of church history, the author of Concilia Ecclesiastica Orbis Britannici and Glossarium Archaiologicum. According to his eighteenth century biographer Peter Suhm, Spelman believed that the Danes, Norwegians, and Goths were Hebrews and that the Danes were in particular of the tribe of Dan.
Adriian van der Schriek was a Dutch scholar who published a book in 1614, Troost Mijn Volk. In the subtitle he stated: "The Netherlanders with the Gauls and Germans together in the earliest times were called Celts, who came out of the Hebrews."
Councellor Le Loyer, a French Huguenot, wrote in 1590, in his work, The Ten Lost Tribes Found: "The Israelites came to and founded the English Isles."
William Tyndale, the famed English Bible Translator, like Johannes Eureius, observed a surprisingly close affinity between Hebrew and the Germanic languages of northwest Europe (German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and English). In 1530 he stated, "The properties of the Hebrew tongue agreeth a thousand times more with the English than with the Latin. The manner of speaking is both one; so that in a thousand places thou needest not but to translate it into English, word for word "
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3. Early British Imperial Interest in Palestine.
Source:
The Rape of Palestine
By William Bernard Ziff
Reaching far back into the 1840s, Lord Palmerston had compiled for his Government thorough material on Palestine,
considering the possibility of exercising a British protectorate over that region in the Jewish interests.
Wedgwood admitting rather shamefacedly in this respect that the Jews were
"almost the only non-Anglo-Saxon people who seem to believe that on the whole England does try to behave decently towards
other people."
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