Brit-Am Research Sources (6 May, 2015, 17 Iyar, 5775)
Contents:
1. The Relative Longevity of Jews Compared to Non-Jews in the USA a Century Ago
2. Did Cimmerians Rule Over Hittites in Anatolia?
3. More proof that Philistines [in the west] May be traced by Mycenean Finds!
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1. The Relative Longevity of Jews Compared to Non-Jews in the USA a Century Ago
William Z. Ripley The Races of Europe: A Sociological Study (NY, 1899)
Jewish population in creasing four times as quickly as the natives in the German and Austrian Empires. 373
Center of Jewish spreading out in Europe was Frankfort in Germany. 375
Jews heavily concentrated in cities.
p. 383
https://archive.org/stream/raceseurope00ripluoft#page/-117/mode/2up
# Despite the appearance of physical degeneracy which we have noted, the Jew betrays an absolutely unprecedented tenacity of life.
It far exceeds, especially in the United states that of any other known people.
This we may illustrate by the following example: Suppose two groups of one hundred infants each, one Jewish, one of average American (Massachusetts) parentage to be born on the same day. In spite of all the disparity of sociological advantages in favor of the latter, the chances, determined by statistical means, are that one half of the Americans will die within forty-seven years; while the first half of the Jews will not succumb to disease or accident before the expiration of seventy-one years. The death rate is but little over half that of the American population. This holds good in infancy as in middle age. #
Ripley suggests (384) that this longevity was due to the superior sanitary conditions for Kosher meat; Clean meat in the opinion of Ripley reduced the incidence of consumption and pneumonia which were major causes of death at the time.
relative lack of drunkenness; "temperate habits, a frugal diet"
Jews were more susceptible to nervous and mental disorders (385).
In Italy Insanity (Lombroso) is four times more prevalent amongst them than amongst gentiles.
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2. Did Cimmerians Rule Over Hittites in Anatolia?
Re: Assyrian reliefs and Hittite reliefs
Thu Apr 30, 2015 1:38 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
brockheathcotte
This theory is not affected by where the Cimmerians came from or what language they spoke because the Cimmerians were simply a warrior elite ruling over the Hittites like the Normans over the English. They melded with the locals when Cyrus conquered them, and their run as warrior kings was permanently ended. But maybe, just maybe, the reason we don't have any idea what language the Cimmerians spoke is because we put the Hittites and their multiple languages in the wrong millennia. After all, archaeologists pulled piles upon piles of written documents from the earth in the exact location that ancient people placed the Cimmerians (Gimrri, Gomer, whatever).
Brock Heathcotte
Phoenix, Arizona
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3. More proof that Philistines [in the west] May be traced by Mycenean Finds!
Mycenaeans in Western Anatolia
PROCEEDINGS OF THE DUTCH ARCHAEOLOGICALAND HISTORICALSOCIETYVOLUMES XXXVI-XXXVII (2004-2005)
Editors
:J.P. Stronk and M.D. de Weerd2006
pag 001-006 01-02-2007 09:17 Pagina 3
http://www.academia.edu/219026/Mycenaeans_in_Western_Anatolia
Myceneans in 1200s collapsed in Greece but then moved to east.
May have given rise to the Philistines. Also settled in Cyprus. Ugarit imported large quantities of Mycenean ware.
says that general speaking Mycenean finds in western Anatolia are relatively scarce especially when compared to the Levant and Egypt. p.51
cf. Amos ch.1 where the prophet speaks of Philistines and Phoenicians being condemned for delivering an Entire Exile (i.e. the Ten Tribes) to Edom.