Brit-Am Research Sources (23 August 2015, 8 Elul 5775)
Contents:
1. Stephen Phillips: Celtic Tribal Names in Britain
2. Esau the Dwarf? Does this explain the "Superman" Obsessions?
3. Jacob versus Esau in Geopolitical Reality Eve of World War 2
Brief Excerpts from Naill Ferguson: "The War of the World", UK, 2006
4. Faience in Britain and the Tin Trade
5. The Liguri Tribes of Northern Italy. Were Israelites Amongst them?
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1. Stephen Phillips: Celtic Tribal Names in Britain
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Warrior Celtic Israelites
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/secular/geber.html
Shalom Yair
Re the Gabrantovices, I would suggest you proceed with caution. This 'tribe' is conjectural based purely on the name 'Gabrantuicorum bay with many harbours' in Ptolemy's geography of England. There is absolutely no reference to a tribe by this name. Whilst I would not disagree with what you say in that places were often named after the people who dwelt there, there is actually no evidence that a tribe by the name of Gabrantovices actually ever existed. Many tribes, however, carried more than the one name, hence the Novantae who settled in southern Scotland were also known as Silures, the Scottish writers inform us. The Silures who settled in Wales were also a branch of the Novantae. Pliny tells us that the Turduli of Spain were also known as Bardili (i.e. Bards) etc etc.
The Parisii (also known as Brenni) were Cimmerians who gave their name to Wales (Cymru) and northern England (Cumbria), but they were at that time too far south to have given their name to this region. It can be inferred from Ptolemy's Geography that it was named by the Otalini (vars Otadini and Votadini) who arrived sometime towards the end of the first century CE. I do not presently know who they were or where they came from. The Welsh called them Gotadin (Gododdin in later texts), which is but a corruption of Votadini. It would certainly be foolish to jump to the rash conclusion that they were a tribe who were descended from Gad. If you have any plausible suggestions?
Regards,
Steve
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Brit-Am Reply:
Numbers 10:24 Gideoni in the Tribe of Benjamin may have given his name to a sub-clan.
This possibility has intrigued me for some time.
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2. Esau the Dwarf? Does this explain the "Superman" Obsessions?
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The Rabbis emphasize the fact that Esau's "hairy" appearance marked him a sinner (Gen. R. lxv.) and his "red" ("edom") color indicated his bloodthirsty propensities ("dam" = "blood"; Gen. R. lxiii.); they make him out to have been a misshapen dwarf (Gen. R. lxv.; Cant. R. ii. 15; Agadat Bereshit xl.) and the type of a shameless robber, displaying his booty even on the holy "bimah" (Midr. Teh. to Ps. lxxx. 6); but his filial piety is nevertheless praised by them (Tan., Kedoshim, 15, where his tears are referred to; ib., Toledot, 24, where the fact that he married at forty, in imitation of his father, is mentioned approvingly).
Brit-Am Comment:
The idea that Esau was a dwarf does not have to be taken literally BUT it opens up interesting possibilities.
If Esau was like that does this explain the obsession many of his descendants appear have had (e.g. Spartans, Romans, Germans, even Russians) with physical perfection and lack of toleration for physical impairment in others?
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3. Jacob versus Esau in Geopolitical Reality Eve of World War 2:
Brief Excerpts from Naill Ferguson: "The War of the World", UK, 2006
# For rearmament in the 1930s , if one wished to possess the most up-to-date weaponry, required copious supplies of a variety of crucial raw materials... the lion's share of the world's accessible supplies lay within the borders of one of four rival powers: the British Empire. the French Empire, the Soviet Union, and the United States... (p.179)
# The concept of lebensraum, or living space had been devised in the late 1890s by Friedrich Ratzal, professor of geography at Leipzig, and developed by the Orientalist and geopolitical theorist Karl Haushofer....
# Another way of looking at the problem was to relate arable land to the population employed in agriculture...Canada was ten times better endowed that Germany and the United states six times better. Even Germany's European neighbors had more "farming space": the average Danish farmer had 229 per cent more land than the average German; the average British farmer 182 per cent more and the average French farmer 34 per cent more... (p.182)
# Just as important [as coal and iron] were oil and rubber. The production of these commodities was dominated by the United States, the British Empire, and the Soviet Union or countries under their direct or indirect influence. American oil fields accounted for just under 70 per cent global crude petroleum production... Modern planes, tanks, and ships which could be manufactured only with the admixture of more or less rare metals like antimony, chromium, cobalt, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, titanium, tungsten, and vandium.. here too the situation of the Western powers and the Soviet Union was dominant, if not monopolistic (p.284).
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4. Faience in Britain and the Tin Trade
British Archaeology
ISSN 1357-4442
Editor Simon Denison
There is independent support for the idea that the appearance of faience in Britain and Ireland was indeed related to the tin trade. First, a composite necklace found in a bog at Exloo in the Netherlands contained beads made out of tin, together with others of faience and amber and one made of old, recycled tubular sheet bronze. Some of the tin beads are shaped like segmented faience beads. These echo the famous but lost segmented tin bead from Sutton Veny in Wiltshire that the antiquary Richard Colt Hoare illustrated in 1812.
The sixth button was made of a steatite-like stone called lizardite, which outcrops at the Lizard in Cornwall and may have been imported from there. Its surface is covered by an inorganic, orange-yellow translucent material. It looks like beeswax, but analysis at Bradford and Cardiff Universities has concluded that it is probably a glaze of some sort. Research is continuing, but it poses the question, do we have here a unique glazed stone item, reminiscent of the glazed steatite of 5th millennium Mesopotamia?
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5. The Liguri Tribes of Northern Italy. Were Israelites Amongst them?
Liguri: Epanteri, Eburiati, Taurini, Levi, Liburni, Ingauni, etc.
Brought to our attention by Aharon Menazzi