Research Sources from Brit-Am Now nos. 651-675
Contents:
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A. General, Bible and History.
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1. The State of Israel HAS to Succeed OR Judah (God forbid) May be Punished yet Again!
2. Minoans (Crete) or Philistines in North-Germany Denmark
3. Ancient Swedish Links to Greece and Phoenicia?
4. The Children of Rachel (Benjamin and Joseph) Will Prepare the Way
5. Canaanite-Religion in Scandinavia
6. Present-Day Descendants of King David
7. The Red-Haired Man
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B. DNA-Hereditary Connected Entries
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1. Changes in Human Skulls
2. Ethnically Selective Plague in Britain?
3. 'Four mothers' for Europe's Jews
4. Cane Toads Change Type of Offspring According to Group Requirement
5. DNA Findings: The USA is Different?
6. DNA and Surnames
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A. General, Bible and History.
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1. The State of Israel HAS to Succeed OR Judah (God forbid) May be Punished yet Again!
"Brit-Am Now"-653
#3. Should the Present State of Israel Have Used the term "Israel"?
http://www.britam.org/now/653Now.html
... Isaiah (30:13-17) prophesied that if Judah fails in this task it is liable to be punished
(God forbid) and those of Joseph who could have helped Judah and did not will also be liable.
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2. Minoans (Crete) or Philistines in North-Germany Denmark
"Brit-Am Now"-660
#4. New Find: Bronze Age Crete-North Frisia [Northwest Germany] Connections
http://www.britam.org/now/660Now.html
Note from "Dirk" in [Germanic-L] Digest Number 1786
The most shocking find was Minoic [Minoan] ceramic dated to the 13th and 14th
centuries BC, including characteriistic three-feet pots. This suggests,
according to the article that trade links existed between Crete and
the North Frisian Coast as early as 1400 BC. The finds come from a
Bronze age layer and cannot have been dropped into the site in modern
times. The objects were likely not transported to Rungholt by
intermediate traders over land, but were likely shipped directly from
Crete.
"Rungholt was the main town of the Edomsharde" [Edom's District?]
Area spoken of: Northern Schleswig (North Friesland just south of Denmark) in Germany in region of Pellworm Island (54.5 N, M38) considered to have once been part of a peninsula connected to the south to the German mainland.
Map:
<http://www.uni-/>http://www.uni-
kiel.de/Geographie/lehrv_online/Pellworm/pellwormcd/enken/enken.html
German-language reference entry:
http://www.geo.de/GEO/wissenschaft_natur/2005_11_GEOskop_rungholt/
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3. Ancient Swedish Links to Greece and Phoenicia?
"Brit-Am Now"-660
#9. Ancient Swedish Links to Greece and Phoenicia?
http://www.britam.org/now/660Now.html
http://arno.daastol.com/history/NordicBronzeAge.html
In 2005, the Nordic state television companies have co-produced and broadcasted a documentary (three episodes, each one hour), called "Stenristerna" - or 'Helleristerne' - the stone carvers.
Reinterpretation indicates not only that the bronze age technology in Scandinavia was second in Europe only to Mycenae in Greece, but also that contact was particularly strong between Scandinavia and the eastern Mediterranean areas and with Greece, in particular, in addition to India, Africa, Egypt, Phoenicia, and Italy. (the later Vikings also had contact with all these culture including India). When seen as an ideographic language (like Chinese and Egyptian hieroglyphs) the carvings tell stories of humans and Gods, of technology and travels.
'Recently' researchers started to compare the carvings and housing technology, ship and sail technology, chariots, burial techniques, armament, art and jewellery etc, - with other cultures and found amazing and very close similarities:
E.g. between Bohusl n (north of Gothenburg) and Ulster (Ireland); between Fyn (Danish island) and the Villa Nova culture in the Italian Alps; between Bergen (western Norway) and Spain; between Trondheim (middle Norway) and Egypt. There are close similarities to images (wall paintings, pottery etc) in Egypt and Northern Africa, but above all the similarities are between Scandinavia and Mycenae (90 km NW of Athens). The mythology and Gods seem similar. The Phoenician god Baal could well be the Nordic god Balder.
The Swedish archaeologist Sven Nilsson suggested 100 years ago that Scandinavia was a Phoenician trading outpost. He was never taken seriously. This may be supported by the "fact" that this culture appeared suddenly, similarly disappeared suddenly, and accordingly the following civilisation was less advanced. (I wonder how the archaeologists can be so sure of this 'fact' of sudden appearance and disappearance, some 3-4000 years ago - and what is "suddenly".)
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 4. The Children of Rachel (Benjamin and Joseph) Will Prepare the Way
"Brit-Am Now"-663
#1. The Children of Rachel Will Prepare the Way
http://www.britam.org/now/663Now.html
From: Atlas or Janet Laster
Here is an interesting commentary from page 391, chapter 23, verse 4 of the ArtScroll Tanach Series Yechezekel/Ezekiel concerning Oholah and Oholivah. Please comment or provide a link to your previous commentary.
It is the destiny of Rachel's [Joseph and Benjamin] descendants to prepare the way for Leah's descendants to serve God in the ideal manner, in much the way that the Josephic Messiah is to prepare the way for the Davidic Messiah.
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5. Canaanite-Religion in Scandinavia
"Brit-Am Now"-665
http://www.britam.org/now/665Now.html
#5. Canaanite-Religion in Scandinavia: Brought by Israelites?
Quotations from:
[Germanic-L] Digest Number 1835
<<I am now reading professor Gunnar Ekholm "Forntid och fornforskning i
Skandinavien".
http://www.stavgard.com/preiron/fornforskn_/bronsoversikt/default.htm
<<In his opinion at the end of Bronze age fertility religion with
Astarte and even close contact to Italian religion was present.
Nature religion is also visible.>>
<<I get more and more convinced about the Mediterranean influence in
the North Sea and the Baltic.
<<I have also read about the finds in Rungholt.
<<Professor Sven Nilssons ideas about having great influence on the
Early Bronze age were not accepted at the time but 130 years later
are getting greater acceptance.
http://www.stavgard.com/Gotland/preiron_/urinvanare_/default.htm
<<There are plenty of artefacts that can be compared with Mychaenean
and Cretean culture.
<<And via these cultures the Egyptian culture.
<<There is research that at time of publishing was not accepted by the
"MAIN STREAM". However it is now considered more favourably.
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6. Present-Day Descendants of King David
"Brit-Am Now"-667
http://www.britam.org/now/667Now.html
1. Present-Day Descendants of King David
Through the Male Line
http://www.davidicdynasty.org/descendants.php
<<Jewish descent from the Royal House of David can be traced through oral tradition, rabbinic sources, historical data and/or extensive research. Most families claim descent from King David through Rashi. Several families claim descent "ben akhar ben"(father to son) in a direct line, most notably the Dayan, Shealtiel and Charlap/Don Yechia, families.
<<There have been many great rabbis and rabbinical houses that trace their ancestry back to David Hamelech. This group of great scholars and leaders include: Hillel, Rabban Gamliel, Rabbi Yehuda Hanasi, Yochanan Hasandler, Rashi and Yosef Karo as well as the more contemporary gedolim like the Vilna Gaon, the Baal Shem Tov, the Breslevor Rebbe and the first Lubavicher Rebbe, Shneur Zalman of Liadi, to name but a few.
<<Here we will enumerate some of the well-known family names that trace their ancestry back to David Hamelech. Since well over 100 generations have passed between the time of King David to the present, there might be hundreds, even thousands, of family names that can legitimately trace their family line back to David Hamelech. ...
See the URL for the complete list of names.
Here are what they consider "Primary Names":
Abarbanel*
Babad/Heschel*
Charlap*
Dayan*
Don Yechia/Ibn Yechia*
Frenkel/Frankel*
Frenkel-Teomim*
Heilprin/Halperin*
Heller*
Heschel/Babad*
Hillel and the Nesi'im*
Horowitz/Hurwitz
(various Chassidim)*
Isserles/Isserlin*
Jaffe/Yoffe* / **
Kalonymus*
Karo/Caro*
Katz (Maharal of Prague)
* / **
Katzenellenbogen*
Klausner*
Loeb*
Lowe*
Lurie/Luria*
Maharal of Prague * / **
/Margaliot*
Meisels*
Rapaport*
Rashei Galut (Exilarchs)
male descent from David*
Sassoon*
Shapiro/Shapira.Spiro/Spira*
Shealtiel/Sealtiel*
Shrentzels*
Teomim/Teomin-Frenkel*
Treves/Dreyfus*
Weil *
Weisblum
(Lizhensk Chassidim)*
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7. The Red-Haired Man
"Brit-Am Now"-659
http://www.britam.org/now/659Now.html
3. The Red-Haired Man
We used the parable of the Red-Haired man several times
but cannot find it now and new people have joined and we need to refer to it
so here it is again.
"The Red-Haired Man" is similar to the principle mentioned in
"Brit-Am Now"-574
item #Statistical Analogy
http://britam.org/now/574Now.html
This says that a combination of many relatively common features when found in
one subject almost certainly will not be found elsewhere and if found elsewhere
will mean that the subject (or part of
the subject) has moved from one place to another.
This is the principle behind DNA testing through which criminals are found guilty of crimes
and others gain inheritance and paternal recognition, etc.
"The Red-Haired Man" had red hair was named John Smith had a wife named Sarah
two children named Bill and Anne. He was five feet six, wore glasses for short-sight,
and stuttered.
Jack was told by his employer that a "Red-Haired Man" and his family according to the above description would meet him in the main square of the city.
Jack did not go to the meeting.
When his employer asked "Why"?
Jack replied that the description was not precise enough:
Many people have red hair; John Smith is a common name; a lot of women are named "Sarah";
quite a few boys are called "Bill" and many girls reply to the appellation "Anne".
Five feet six is the height of a good portion of the male population;
The city has many squares and a lot of people stand around in them.
The employer was justifiably irritated.
We too have an obligation to "Our Employer" to clarify where the Lost
Tribes of Israelites are today.
We were given signs of identification more than a hundred of which
are presented
on the Brit-Am Web Site:
http://britam.org/Identity-Proof-of-the-lost-tribes.html
"DID YOU KNOW THAT....." According to the Bible ten out of the twelve tribes of Israel split away (2-Kings 12:19), formed their own kingdom of "Israel" (2-Kings 12:20) and were exiled by the Assyrians (2-Kings 17:18). They forget their identity (Hosea 1:9 7:8 Isaiah 49:21) and became the Lost Ten Tribes. In the future they will re-unite with the Jews (Ezekiel 37, Isaiah 11:13 Jeremiah 3:18) of "Judah", but until then they have a role of their own to fulfill. They were destined to be situated at the continental extremities of the earth such as North America, the British Isles, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa (Deuteronomy 33:13 Isaiah 24:16 26:15 41:8-9 49:6), to be the richest (Genesis 27:28 49:25 Deuteronomy 33:13-16 Hosea 2:8), and most powerful (Numbers 24:8-7 Micah 5:7-9) nations on earth and to control major international strategic bases (Genesis 22:16-17 24:60). All of these points together with numerous others show that descendants of the Lost Ten Tribes can only be found amongst Western Nations especially the English-speaking ones. The correctness of our interpretation of the relevant verses, and your destiny, may depend upon this information. You need to know!!
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B. DNA-Hereditary Connected Entries
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1. Changes in Human Skulls
2. Ethnically Selective Plague in Britain?
3. 'Four mothers' for Europe's Jews
4. Cane Toads Change Type of Offspring According to Group Requirement
5. DNA Findings: The USA is Different?
6. DNA and Surnames
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 1. Changes in Human Skulls
"Brit-Am Now"-651
#2. Changes in Human Skeletons: Brit-Am Understanding Vindicated Yet Again
http://www.britam.org/now/651Now.html
Time changes modern human's face
By Rebecca Morelle
BBC News science reporter
Researchers have found that the shape of the human skull has changed significantly over the past 650 years.
Modern people possess less prominent features but higher foreheads than our medieval ancestors.
Dr Peter Rock, lead author of the study and director of orthodontistry at Birmingham University, told the BBC News website: "The astonishing finding is the increased cranial vault heights.
"The increase is very considerable. For example, the vault height of the plague skulls were 80mm, and the modern ones were 95mm - that's in the order of 20% bigger, which is really rather a lot."
He suggests that the increase in size may be due to an increase in mental capacity over the ages.
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2. Ethnically Selective Plague in Britain?
"Brit-Am Now"-652
#1. Jay: Was There An Ethnically Selective Plague in Britain?
http://www.britam.org/now/652Now.html
Hello Yair:
May I offer a speculation about the demise of a tribe or race of people
650 years ago in England. Drawings I have seen dating from the middle
ages often depict people with a very low forehead along with people who
look more like "modern" English people. These people with low foreheads
appear as if they are severely handicapped, though possibly before 1350,
these people were a significant presence in medieval England. If you are
considering an evolutionary change in such a short period, I have strong
doubts and I would say, "forget evolution", even if you believe humans
evolved from something that looked like a monkey. In more modern times
we have an example of a race of people being almost wiped out by
disease. In and after 1492, the small pox virus was introduced to the
natives of North America by explorers. Theories are that almost the
whole population died long before there were settlements established in
the US. The devastation seems to have been most severe in the central
US, near our Mississippi River. But this occurred even before the time
of the French Explorers from New France (Quebec) and so there is no
record except maybe from a few priests who recorded the stories of those
natives they preached to. Could it not be that those in England, who
died en-mass, during the plague were of a tribe, which had no immunity,
what-so-ever, to such a virus, whatever it was; just as the Native
population of North America, especially the inhabitants near the
Mississippi River, had no immunity to the plague of the Europeans, the
smallpox virus? Again, I am speculating and I welcome comments from
other readers so that I will be better informed.
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3. 'Four mothers' for Europe's Jews
"Brit-Am Now"-657
#3. DNA Four Mothers of Present Day European Jews?
http://www.britam.org/now/657Now.html
From BBC News
'Four mothers' for Europe's Jews
Almost half of Europe's Jews are descended from just four women who lived 1,000 years ago, a study says.
Scientists studied the mitochondrial DNA - passed from mother to daughter - of 11,000 women of Ashkenazi Jewish origin living in 67 countries.
The Ashkenazis moved from the Mid-East to Italy and then to Eastern Europe, where their population exploded in the 13th Century, the scientists say.
One of the authors said the study shows the importance of Jewish mothers.
"This I could tell you even without the paper," Dr Doron Behar of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology told Reuters news agency.
Genetic signature
The four women are thought to have lived in the Middle East about 1,000 years ago but they may not have lived anywhere near each other, according to the study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics.
However, they bequeathed genetic signatures to their descendents, which do not appear in non-Jews and are rare in Jews not of Ashkenazi origin.
The Ashkenazis are thought to have travelled from the Middle East to Italy in the first or second Centuries.
In Central and Eastern Europe, many spoke Yiddish - a form of German, mixed with Hebrew.
Ashkenazi comes from an old Hebrew word for Germany.
By the outbreak of World War II, there were some nine million, some two-thirds of whom were killed by the Nazis.
There are now some eight million people of Ashkenazi origin living around the world, the researchers say.
Some 3.5m, or 40%, of them are descended from the four women, they say.
Story from BBC NEWS:
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4. Cane Toads Change Type of Offspring According to Group Requirement
"Brit-Am Now"-666
#3. Cane Toads Prove Brit-Am Point?
http://www.britam.org/now/666Now.html
Note: Brit-Am holds that organisms adapt in response to environment
according to existing genetic programing.
This is not evolution but rather the opposite
\though it does explain phenomenon that otherwise
might considered as evidence of evolutionary adaptation.
In the case below, we would explain the phenomenon
of the "pioneer" toads having longer legs by the organism as a whole having need
of such "pioneers" and therefore producing them. When the need is fulfilled they disappear.
http://johnhawks.net/weblog
Cane toad invasion and evolution
The Hawaiian cane toad is a classic case of an invasive species, and its genetics have long been a subject of study for those interested in the spread of species into new habitat.
That's why it's so interesting to me that a new study in Nature(subscription) has shown morphological differences (LiveScience) between the initial wave of toads and later populations. The fastest colonizers have the longest legs:
From the 1940s through the 1960s, the toads were invading at a rate of about 6 miles per year; now they're taking over at a rate of about 30 miles a year.
To find out why the toads are spreading so fast, researchers stationed themselves about 40 miles east of Australia's port city of Darwin, in a region where the cane toads had not yet spread.
When the toads arrived, the researchers found that those in the vanguard of the invasion had legs that were up to 6 percent longer than average; shorter-legged stragglers followed. The study showed that newer populations of toads tended to have longer legs than those in long-established populations.
These are BIG toads, by the way -- weighing up to 2 kg. Leg length does lead to faster dispersal:
The morphological trait most often linked to locomotor ability in anurans is leg length, both among and within species8. Our trials (see supplementary information) confirm that cane toads with relatively long legs are indeed faster over a short distance (regressing time taken to cover 1 m against residual leg length: r=-0.44, n=29, P<0.02). But, more important, longer-legged toads moved further over 24 h (maximum displacement of radio-tracked toads versus relative leg length: r=0.46, n=21, P<0.04) and over three days (r=0.58, n=21, P<0.006; Fig. 1a). Longer legs therefore facilitate more rapid dispersal.
Of course, the idea that longer-legged toads would move faster and colonize more quickly makes perfect sense.
The mystery is: Why do leg lengths subsequently decline?
References:
Phillips BL et al. 2006. Invasion and the evolution of speed in toads. Nature 439:803.
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5. DNA Findings: The USA is Different?
"Brit-Am Now"-659
http://www.britam.org/now/659Now.html
#4. DNA Findings: The USA is Different?
A new DNA study
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/211979.pdf
and the Discussion around it
has tentatively led to the following
suggestions:
a. DNA mutations occur at a faster rate in North America than in
Europe?
b. A type of DNA considered especially typical of people of Sephardic Jewish
descent is characterized by a haplotype that is extra frequent in North America:
"The most common European haplotype, 14-(11,14)-13-16-24-11-13-13,
is found in 3.1% of 9,972 individuals in the Y-STR HRDatabase.
This haplotype was found at 5.4% in the European-American sample."
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6. DNA and Surnames
"Brit-Am Now"-666
#5. World Science: Your DNA may reveal your last name
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/060221_surnamefrm.htm
Feb. 21, 2006
Extracts:
At least in Britain, a new study has found that men who share a surname often are indeed related.
Whats more, detectives could make good use of this information, the researchers added: it suggests it may be possible to predict a persons last name from his DNA. But this may work only for less common names, for which the relatedness is stronger.
The scientists compared DNA from 150 pairs of men who share British surnames, and found that about a quarter of pairs are linked genetically. The link was via the Y chromosome, the part of our genetic material that confers maleness and is passed, like many surnames, from father to son.
In the new study, Turi King at the University of Leicester and colleagues recruited pairs randomly from the population. Pairs sharing surnames are on average much more likely to have matching Y chromosomes than pairs with different names, they found. The link becomes stronger as names become rarer. For example, there was no link for Smith, Jones, and Taylor, but a clear link for Attenborough, Widdowson, and Grewcock.
Linked men share a common ancestor from less than 20 generations ago, about 1300 AD, when last names were founded, the researchers said, adding that the findings will also be helpful to genealogists seeking to work out family trees.
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