Brit-Am Research Sources. Information of potential interest to Brit-Am/Hebrew Nations Research concerning the Lost Ten Tribes.
Contents:
1. Film About Zebulon in the Netherlands.
2. Early Dutch Traditions Concerning their Israelite Ancestry.
3. Chronicles of Eri.
4. Source on the British Empire. The Glory of Empire.
5. Some English Words with Suggested Hebrew Equivalents.
1. Film About Zebulon
Shalom Yair
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Film About Zebulon
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2. Early Dutch Traditions Concerning their Israelite Ancestry.
Is het Nederlandse volk een stam van Israel - Pentahof
Adrian van Scriek, Originum rerumque celticarum et belgicarum libri XXIII (Index I-II),1614
Traces Nederlanders to Hebrews who went North and became Celts.
I. Smallegange in "Chronijck van Zeelandt", 1696, traced Dutch peoples such as the Batavians, Frisians, Menapians, and others to ancient Hebrews.
Robertus Albertoma, Groningen, 1736 wrote in "Elia de profeet" that the Hebrews came to the Netherlands.
Quotes Petrus Keuchenius (his grandfather?) that Nederlanders came from Gilead.
Quotes the Dutch Jewish poet Isaac da Costa (1798-1860) as identifying Nederlanders with Israelites.
The Wikipedia entry on Da Costa indicates that he was a prolific and proficient historian with access to a great number of sources.
4. Source on the British Empire.
The Glory of Empire
Extracts:
During the reign of Victoria, the British Empire's holdings around the globe expanded until it had become the largest empire in history. Though Great Britain was a small island nation, by the end of the 19th century it was said that the sun never set on its territory. With its colonies, protectorates and territories, the empire included over 14 million square miles of land and 450 million people, more than a quarter of the global poopulation. With supremacy at sea, Britain took on the role of global policeman, and came to dominate world politics.
The vast tracts of lands it possessed to harvest natural resources brought great wealth into the empire. Owning such a large amount of the planet gave Britain unparalleled power in world trade, and granted it significant influence over the economies of countries like China, Siam (Thailand) and Argentina. In Britain's ports, ships arrived from all over the globe carrying goods and raw materials that fueled the local economy. The wealth supported an age of scientific, industrial, cultural and military advancement within the United Kingdom.
Author and historian Kirk Emmert explored Churchill's devotion in his excellent book, Winston S. Churchill on Empire. He wrote, "The word 'empire' in the title is to be taken on many levels. The glory of the British Empire was its service TO A CAUSE THAT TRANSCENDED BRITAIN, THAT TRANSCENDED HISTORY, THAT TRANSCENDED TIME ITSELF."
Emmert wrote that in Churchill's view, the British Empire acted to "lift human life away from barbarism and savagery towards civilization and human excellence."
Historian and Harvard professor Niall Ferguson explains in detail the good work of the British Empire in his book Empire. Despite the wide criticism leveled at the British Empire today, he writes, "the fact remains that NO ORGANIZATION IN HISTORY HAS DONE MORE TO PROMOTE THE FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS, CAPITAL AND LABOR THAN THE BRITISH EMPIRE in the 19th and early 20th centuries. And NO ORGANIZATION HAS DONE MORE TO IMPOSE WESTERN NORMS OF LAW, ORDER AND GOVERNANCE AROUND THE WORLD."
Ferguson does a very good job making the case that the world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain's age of empire.'He documents Britain's towering contributions to the lands it colonized, and to humanity in general, contributions that included the English language and literature; English forms of land ownership; Scottish and English banking; Common Law; team sports; representative assemblies; and modern notions of freedom and liberty.
All these things were rooted in Judeo-Christian values, which the British shared with mankind during their global rule.
On July 10, 1833, Lord Macaulay stated in a speech before British Parliament, # There is an empire exempt from all natural causes of decay. THAT EMPIRE IS THE IMPERISHABLE EMPIRE OF OUR ARTS AND OUR MORALS AND OUR LITERATURE AND OUR LAWS.#
Emmert explained that Churchill believed that the # fostering of civilization [is] the highest purpose of empire.#
# True imperialism develops manhood,# Churchill said.
James Anthony Froude (1818-1894), ...in his book Oceana:
# A man who is more than himself, who is part of an institution, who has devoted himself to a cause or is a citizen of an imperial power EXPANDS TO THE SCOPE AND FULLNESS OF THE LARGER ORGANISM; and the grander the organization, the larger and more important the unit that knows that he belongs to it. HIS THOUGHTS ARE WIDER, HIS INTERESTS LESS SELFISH, HIS AMBITIONS AMPLER AND NOBLER. A GREAT NATION MAKES GREAT MEN, A SMALL NATION MAKES LITTLE MEN.#
Froude was talking about the British Empire.
In case we are tempted to discredit our heritage think:
*Ghandi praised the British Empire
*The Royal Navy - Britain's empire-builders in Africa - ended the slave trade
*No power on earth ever did more to advance free trade and free institutions than the British Empire
* The British Empire once stood alone against the combined forces of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, imperial Japan and Soviet Russia.
(H.W. Crocker III)
5. Some English Words with Suggested Hebrew Equivalents.
Online Etymological Dictionary
lady
c.1200, lafdi, lavede, from O.E. hlifdige "mistress of a household, wife of a lord," lit. "one who kneads bread," from hlaf "bread" (see loaf) + -dige "maid," ...The medial -f- disappeared 14c. Not found outside English except where borrowed from it.
Hebrew: Yaldah girl, Laydah birth. cheled - mortal
lad
c.1300, ladde "foot soldier," also "young male servant" (attested as a surname from late 12c.), possibly from a Scandinavian language (cf. Norw. -ladd, in compounds for "young man"), but of obscure origin in any case.
Hebrew: Yeled - boy, cheled - mortal
child
O.E. cild "child, infant," from P.Gmc. *kiltham (source of Gothic kil�ei "womb," Dan. kuld "children of the same marriage"); no certain cognates outside Germanic.
Hebrew: Yeled - boy, cheled - mortal
Balk
14c., "to leave an unplowed ridge when plowing," from balk (n.). Extended meaning "to omit, intentionally neglect" is mid-15c. Most modern senses are figurative, from the notion of a balk in the fields as a hindrance or obstruction: sense of "stop short" (as a horse confronted with an obstacle) is late 15c.; that of "to refuse" is 1580s. Related: Balked; balking.
Hebrew Bachal - draw back in revulsion from.
elf
"race of powerful supernatural beings in Germanic folklore,"
Hebrew elef, aluph, - leader, champion, mighty bull.
help
help (v.) ...."help, support, succor; benefit, do good to; cure, amend," ...cf. O.N. hjalpa, O.Fris. helpa, M.Du., Du. helpen, O.H.G. helfan, Ger. helfen
Hebrew elef, alaf, ha-alef - train, teach, guide, lead.