Brit-Am Research Sources. Information of potential interest to Brit-Am/Hebrew Nations Research concerning the Lost Ten Tribes.
1 November 2012 15 Cheshvan 5773
Contents:
1. Was Columbus secretly a Jew? [Abarbanel Financed Columbus.]
2. Celtic Vows re Nazirites.
3. List of Celtic Tribes
4. Minoans and Israel
5. O Neill, Neill, Neale, Neil
6. Words. Honor (Hadar), hod (head), Use (As), Two Meanings of Brook.
7. Some Other names for Joseph
1. Was Columbus secretly a Jew? [Abarbanel Financed Columbus.]
By Charles Garcia, Special to CNN
May 24, 2012 -- Updated 1832 GMT (0232 HKT)
Extracts:
In Simon Weisenthal's book, "Sails of Hope," he argues that Columbus' voyage was motivated by a desire to find a safe haven for the Jews in light of their expulsion from Spain. Likewise, Carol Delaney, a cultural anthropologist at Stanford University, concludes that Columbus was a deeply religious man whose purpose was to sail to Asia to obtain gold in order to finance a crusade to take back Jerusalem and rebuild the Jews' holy Temple.
Columbus' voyage was not, as is commonly believed, funded by the deep pockets of Queen Isabella, but rather by two Jewish Conversos and another prominent Jew. Louis de Santangel and Gabriel Sanchez advanced an interest free loan of 17,000 ducats from their own pockets to help pay for the voyage, as did Don Isaac Abrabanel, rabbi and Jewish statesman.
Brit-Am Note:
Don Isaac Abrabanel (or "Abarbanel") who according to the above helped fund the voyage of Columbus was also the author of a comprehensive commentary on the Bible.
We have used this work in our studies.
Two points in particular in which we found Abarbanel of value are:
a. The inclusion of the Island of Britain (called "Angleterre" by him) in the concept of Zerephat in the Book of Obadiah 1:20.
b. The explanation of the term "Notsrim" as referring to Christians.
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# There was also many references (spanning a huge time period) to the practice of leaving one's hair uncut and unkempt until an important vow had been fulfilled. You mentioned Julius Civilis, who dyed his hair red and swore not to cut it until he'd won a victory against the Romans. #
4. Minoans and Israel
Who Were the Minoans?
The Minoans were from Crete. In conventional terms they were at their height between 2700 BC and 1500 BC,
They were conquered and replaced by the Myceneans from Greece.
The Mycenaean period was from 1600BC until 1100BC.
The Greek Mycenaeans later took over Crete and the islands of former Minoan civilization and adopted some aspects of it as seen in their pottery, and ships.
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"The Biblical record states that [the Philistines] came from Caphtor (Amos ix. 7; Deut. ii. 23), that they were Caphtorim (Deut, l.c.), and that they were "the remnant of the seacoast of Caphtor" (Jer. xlvii. 4, Hebr.). The table of nations (Gen. x. 13, 14) names the Philistines and the Caphtorim as descendants of Mizraim. The gist of these references leads one to look for Caphtor as the native land of the Philistines. There is a variety of opinion as to the location of this place. The Egyptian inscriptions name the southern coast of Asia Minor as "Kefto." The latest and with some plausibility the best identification is the island of Crete. The Septuagint makes the Cherethites in David's body-guard Cretans. Others have identified Caphtor with Cappadocia, or Cyprus, or with some place near the Egyptian delta. The prevailing opinion among scholars is that the Philistines were roving pirates from some northern coast on the Mediterranean Sea." (Emphasis added.)
5. O Neill, Neill, Neale, Neil
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Heremon reigned singly for fourteen years; during which time a certain colony called by the Irish Cruithneaigh, in English "Cruthneans" or Picts, arrived in Ireland and requested Heremon to assign them a part of the country to settle in, which he refused; but, giving them as wives the widows of the Tuatha-de-Danans, slain in battle, he sent them with a strong party of his own forces to conquer the country then called "Alba," but now Scotland; conditionally, that they and their posterity should be tributary to the Monarchs of Ireland.
6. Words. Honor (Hadar), hod (head), Use (As), Two Meanings of Brook.
(a) Honor.
The English word, honour, is traced to the Latin honorem (nom. honos, later honor)
In Norse (Old Norwegian, Icelandic) the word is Hadar (Hathar) this is similar tot he Hebrew Hadar which could also be pronounced as Hathar.
Hebrew Hadar (HDR) meaning honor, glory.
(b) Head
The Hebrew Hod (HOD) is related to the Hebrew Hadar and means head, ability, honor.
It gives us the English word "head".
Considering that the Hebrew word has elastic vowels and could easily have been also pronounced as "Head" notice how exact the correspondence is. This especially stands out when we compare conventional attempts at giving this (and most other words) "Indo-European origins:.
Etymology
From Middle English hed, heed, heved, heaved, from Old English h afod ("head; top; source, origin; chief, leader; capital"), from Proto-Germanic *haubudan ("head"), from Proto-Indo-European *kaput ("head"), a variant of *kap lo ("head, bowl"). Cognate with Scots heid, hede, hevid, heved ("head"), Old English hafola ("head"), North Frisian hood ("head"), Dutch hoofd ("head"), German Haupt ("head"), Swedish huvud ("head"), Icelandic h�fu� ("head"), Latin caput ("head"), Sanskrit (kap la, "cup, bowl, skull"), Hindi (kap l, "skull"), and (through borrowing from Sanskrit) Japanese (kawara, "a covering bone: kneecap, skull"), (kawara, "a roof tile").
The Hebrew Hod also means ability and could be pronounced as "heath". This is also found in English and Gothic:
cf.
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# English has the suffixes -head, and -hood "condition, rank, quality".
# The (Visi-)Gothic form is haidus "manner". This word seems to have been continually confused with the similar "heath", Gothic hai�i "field", Norse f. hei�r "heath".#
(b) Use.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=u&p=18&allowed_in_frame=0
use (v.) mid-13c., from O.Fr. user "use, employ, practice," from V.L. *usare "use," frequentative form of pp. stem of L. uti "to use," in Old L. oeti "use, employ, exercise, perform," of unknown origin. Replaced O.E. brucan (see brook (v.).
cf. Hebrew "as" do, make". Takes the Imperative Plural Ta-oos or "oos" i.e. use.
(c) Two Meanings of Brook
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=brook&searchmode=none
brook (n.)"small stream," O.E. broc "flowing stream, torrest," of obscure origin, probably from P.Gmc. *broka- which yielded words in German (Bruch) and Dutch (broek) that have a sense of "marsh." In Sussex and Kent, it means "water-meadow," and in plural, "low, marshy ground."
brook (v.) "to endure," O.E. brucan "use, enjoy, possess; eat; cohabit with," from P.Gmc. *bruk- "to make use of, enjoy" (cf. O.S. brukan, O.Fris. bruka, O.H.G. bruhhan, Ger. brauchen "to use," Goth. brukjan), from PIE root *bhrug- "to make use of, have enjoyment of" (cf. L. fructus). Sense of "use" applied to food led to "be able to digest," and by 16c. to "tolerate."
Hebrew Parallels.
(a) Brica (Brayca) meaning pond of water.
(b) Barac meaning bless, or blessing, enjoyment.
7. Some Other names for Joseph
Adon
Ben Porat
Asaf
Asenath (i.e. Osnat, his wife)
Serapis (Talmud) later identified (by Egyptians and Greeks) as Osiris.
Asopis.
Seth