Brit-Am Research Sources (9 March 2016, 29 Adar-A, 5776)
Contents:
1. Edomites in the Roman Ruling Class Confirmed by an Authoritative Rabbinical Source.
2. The Poet William Blake Identified England with Israel!
3. Valuable Linguistic Evidence.Tracing the Dispersion
By Terry M. Blodgett
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1. Edomites in the Roman Ruling Class Confirmed by an Authoritative Rabbinical Source.
Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz (1878 - 1953), otherwise known as the "Chazon Ish,"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avrohom_Yeshaya_Karelitz
is considered by many to have been the foremost Rabbinical authority of recent times.
Concerning Edom and the Romans, he says:
# In principle Rome came from the Seed of Esau... the Royalty [of Rome] remained as known [descendants of Edom] and not intermixed.# He quotes sources to substantiate these statements.
Source: "Chazon Ish," Iben Ha-Ezra, 8;5.
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2. The Poet William Blake Identified England with Israel!
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
edited by David V. Erdman (1982), with a new Foreword and Commentary by Harold Bloom (2008).
p.33 notes on "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell."
Edom is France. England is equated with Israel.
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3. Valuable Linguistic Evidence.Tracing the Dispersion
By Terry M. Blodgett
https://www.lds.org/ensign/1994/02/tracing-the-dispersion?lang=eng
Extract:
The basic conclusion of linguistic study into this subject is that as large groups of ancient Israelites left their homeland, first, following the Assyrian captivity of northern Israel (about 700B.C.) and the Babylonian captivity of Judah in the south (about 600 B.C.), and second, following the Roman conquest of Palestine (about A.D. 70), their language influenced the languages of some of the countries to which they migrated. This linguistic evidence can help us determine where some of these Israelites went and approximately when. Although ancient Israelites were eventually scattered throughout the entire world (see Amos 9:9), at least one general geographical area contains significant linguistic evidence to suggest that Israelite migrations did in fact occur there. That area is Europe.
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