Sources from Brit-Am Now nos. 301-350
Contents:
Betty Rhodes: The name "Aegel" was common amongst Saxons.
Yair Davidiy: Anecdote from Yemenite Rabbi on British Mercy
Phoenician-Viking Links: Ships, Eridanus (The Rhine) and Jordan
Theo Vennemann: English is a Semiticised Language
Four-roomed house of Hyksos and Israelites
Jews Pray for Return of the Ten Tribes
JFK: USA and Israel like America and Britain
Norway (Thule) Ancient Speakers and Good Words of Naphtali
Syrian-Chaldeans under Albyne Went to Britain
Nehallenia of the Netherlands and Zebulon
Ezekiel: Judah Needs Ephraim; Repentance of Ephraim After Return to Israel; Healing of the Land
Unicorn Rule of Joseph over the Earth
Professor Terry Blodgett: Similarities in Germanic and Hebrew
London an Ancient Phoenician Port
Betty Rhodes: The name "Aegel" was common amongst Saxons.
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1. Betty Rhodes: The name "Aegel" was common amongst Saxons.
From Elesham to Aylsham . . .
http://www.edp24.co.uk/Content/Community/Aylsham/asp/history.asp
It is thought that Aylshams history dates from around 500AD when a Saxon called Aegel (a common name) set up his homestead here. As Ham means homestead, the new village would have been known as Aegels Ham. About 300 years later, when the Danes arrived, the village would have been sufficiently well established to keep its Saxon name.Aylshams known history dates back to pre-Norman times. It was recorded as Elesham in the Domesday Book and had around 2370 cultivated acres, 25 of meadow and 640 of woodland. The remaining 1000 acres was wild.
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Yair Davidiy: Anecdote from Yemenite Rabbi on British Mercy
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2. More on the English
Almost two decades ago by chance I came across a book in Hebrew whose title
and author I have forgotten.
[With some effort and research however the matter could perhaps be
clarified]. The book was the autobiography
of a Rabbi of the Yemenite community in Israel. My impression was that the
book was been put in a limited printing
mainly for the sake of family and acquaintances. The Rabbi told about his
childhood and youth in Yemen, coming to
"Palestine" before WW11 and his experiences. The Rabbi gives the impression
of someone not overduly impressed
with western culture, not an intellectual in our sense, and whose closest
experiences with Gentiles was with Arabs whom he did not regard highly. He
had therefore no reason to be prejudiced one way or other.
The incident we are about to discuss sounds somewhat fantastic but it
apparently did happen, as described,
and it is actually quite realistic as those with military experience can tell.
The Rabbi recounts [I recall from memory: this incident made an impression
on me] that once (when the British ruled "Palestine") he was sitting at his
window overlooking the marketplace and he saw a group of British soldiers
making a search for illegal weapons amongst the Jews. One soldier became
separated from his fellows but continued
searching. He discovered a rifle and confiscated it. The Rabbi says that he
knew the British had a reputation for being merciful especially towards
women. He therefore sent his young wife over to the soldier and she grabbed
the rifle out of his hands. The soldier stood there non-plussed and
ashamed [apparently at having been treated such by a woman and not being
sure how to react] so the Rabbi approached him and invited him into their
house. They gave the soldier
a good meal, and a bottle of whisky for the soldier. The soldier finished
the meal in a happy state of mind and left wishing them well and saying
that he hoped the Jews would soon have a state of their own.
The British could be cruel and ruthless and in "Palestine" both Jews and
Arabs sometimes experienced this aspect of their character. They could also
be merciful and had a name for being merciful and it was possible to take
risks on occasion on the assumption that their quality of mercy would prevail.
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Phoenician-Viking Links: Ships, Eridanus (The Rhine) and Jordan
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5. Amber
Amber is hardened tree sap mainly from pine trees (?).
Some times flies and other insects were trapped in the sap before it hardened
and can still be seen inside the semi-transparent stone.
Most amber comes from the Baltic sea-shores in Northern Europe though it
can also be found elsewhere. In ancient times amber was considered to be
more valuable than gold.
Phoenician exploration of the northern shores of Europe could have been
partly in search of amber.
Some time ago we made the following note:
Phoenician Boats = Viking long ships?
Zevi Herman an Israeli authority on ancient shipping and author of a book
("Amin, Yamim, Oniot", written in 1962) describes Phoenician shipping.
Herman believed that the ancient Israelites were involved in Phoenician
sailing enterprises. He stated that Phoenician
ships reached Britain and Cornwall and possibly also the Baltic Sea in
northern Europe.
Herman said that the Phoenician small long range ship (known to the Greeks
as "Hyppo", i.e. the "horse") is in effect almost identical in both
structure and appearance with the later Viking longship of Scandinavia. The
"Hyppo" had the carved head of horse at the front and the tail of a fish at
the rear. He has illustrations proving his point showing the similarity
between Viking ships and Phoenician ones.
Herodotus writes in Book 3 of his Histories:
"...for I cannot accept the story of a river called by non-Greek peoples
the Eridanus, which flows into the northern sea, where amber is supposed
to come from.......Yet it cannot be disputed that tin and amber do come
to us from what one might call the ends of the earth........In any case
it does seem to be true that the countries which lie on the circumference
of the inhabited world produce the things which we believe to be most
rare and beautiful."
The Eridanus was a name applied to the Rhine River in Germany. The name
derives from the Hebrew "Yordan"
or "Jordan" which was understandable (says the Midrash) as meaning
"Yeridan" (and thus Eridanus) or "Yored-Dan"
since the Jordan begins at a spring on the site of Dan (also called Daphne)
and goes out (or "down") from there.
Amber is linked with the Tribe of Dan. Small quantities of amber occur
naturally at the site of Dan (Daphne)
in the Northern Galilee. Dan was also known as "Leshem". Leshem is said to
mean a precious stone that some identify as amber. Leshem has been identified as the stone of Dan in
breastplate of the Chief Priest in the Temple service. Other
identifications have also been suggested. Amber is usually yellowish in
color whereas Leshem is often described as a very light blue. At all events
the possible associations between leshem, amber, Dan, Eridanus,
Jordan, etc may be worth looking into.
[Joshua 19:47] AND THE COAST OF THE CHILDREN OF DAN WENT OUT TOO LITTLE FOR
THEM: THEREFORE THE CHILDREN OF DAN WENT UP TO FIGHT AGAINST LESHEM, AND
TOOK IT, AND SMOTE IT WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD, AND POSSESSED IT, AND
DWELT THEREIN, AND CALLED LESHEM, DAN, AFTER THE NAME OF DAN THEIR
FATHER.
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Theo Vennemann: English is a Semiticised Language
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3. Theo Vennemann
Theo Vennemann is a professor at Munich University. He heads a school of thought that says that in western Europe there once existed speakers of a Semitic Hebrew-like tongue who were absorbed by Celtic and Germanic speakers. Remains of the original Semitic language can still be discerned. These Semitic speakers were responsible for the dolmens and related monuments. Members of this school are presumably secular and may not necessarily agree with the explanations of Brit-Am or with our dating. Nevertheless their explanations are consistent with Brit-Am beliefs. We have received literature from Theo Vennemann that we are going through: A few lines I just opened up to by chance are worth quoting: <<English among all the non-Celtic Indo-European languages looks most similar to the Semitic languages precisely because English is the only one of them that was substantially Semiticized, namely by transitive loaning of Semitic structure, with Insular Celtic as mediator>>
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Four-roomed house of Hyksos and Israelites
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8. Archaeology: The Four-roomed house
The Four-roomed house is a type of dwelling that according to archaeologists
was peculiar to Israelites in Biblical times.
The Hyksos who once ruled in Egypt also used the four roomed house.
In "Lost Israelite Identity" we identified the Hyksos with Israelites and
showed how both
archaeology, Rabbinical traditions, and Irish Mythology throw light on this
identification that also
has implications for identifying the Lost ten Tribes,
An interesting article from BAR magazine concerning the four-roomed house
may be seen at:
http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/bswbba2905f2.html
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Jews Pray for Return of the Ten Tribes
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6. Theodor Opatowski: Prayer for Ten Tribes
As a matter if interest, did you know that Orthodox Jews pray for theÂ
restoration specifically of the ten lost tribes every day (including Shabbat)?
In the prayer just before the Amidah we say;
"Rock of Israel, arise to the aid of Israel and redeem, as you pledged,
Judah and Israel."
Now, since Judah is mentioned separately, Israel can only refer
specifically to the lost ten tribes.
Regards
Theodor Opatowski
topabook@aquanet.co.il
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Brit-Am Comment: There is also a blessing in the Main Prayer (said three
times a days):
# Blow with a great shofar for our liberty, and gather us together from the
four corners of the earth #
According tot he "Etz Chaim" commentary the first part of this phrase, Blow
with a great shofar for our liberty,
entails a request that the Lost Ten Tribes should return.
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JFK: USA and Israel like America and Britain
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4. USA, UK, and Israel = A Special Relationship
http://www.shalem.org.il/oren/book.doc
"The United States has a special relationship with Israel comparableÂ
only to that which it has with Britain" , he [President John F. Kennedy]
told Foreign Minister Meir; "I think it is quite clear that in the case of
invasion the United States would come to the support of Israel."
Kennedy quote from Foreign Relations of the United States 18, 1961-1963, pp. 280-81.
Brit-Am Note: Some people may not like Kennedy due to his alleged
personal life, etc, but he was President and as such was able to give voice to sentiments and
truth beyond himself.
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Norway (Thule) Ancient Speakers and Good Words of Naphtali
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3. Norway: New Insights?
Lars Ims:
The Greek traveler Pytheas from Massilia
(Marseille) traveled along the coast of what is now
known as Norway perhaps as far north as Bodo around
330 BC, and he called that land Thule, which a Norse
scholars like Ottar Groenvik understands as "the land
of the Thuls" or "the Thul land". If he is right,
that would definitely connect Odin to an early stage of
Norse religion, since Odin is both called "the old
thul" and "the great thul" (Fimbulthul). The word
means "speaker" in Old English, and Odin's pulpit or
speaker's chair is referred to as "the chair of the
thul" in Mnemonic lists of word synonyms are
called thulur in Old Icelandic literature. From all
this we might conclude that Odin as the thul is a
cultic or religious speaker whose lore is knowledge
such as runes and other intellectual skills.
[Genesis 49:21] NAPHTALI IS A HIND LET LOOSE: HE GIVETH GOODLY WORDS.
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Syrian-Chaldeans under Albyne Went to Britain
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4. Ancient British Civilization
http://www.arthurinamerica.com/blog/blog.html
# British histories confirm arrivals in Britain of the fleets of the
advanced Syrian-Chaldeans under Albyne around 1600 BC and the highly
advanced Brutus led second vast fleet migration into Britain from Asia
Minor around 504 BC. In "The Holy Kingdom", pub 1997, we let out some
information on the gigantic sunken harbour on the Afallach-Orchard levels
off the East Cardiff shoreline.
Now on 18 September 2002 the Guardian newspaper reported that
archaeologists had made unexpected discoveries when excavating Poole
Harbour in Dorset. They found that the many thousands of oak tree trunks,
driven down into the mud to stabilize the masses of rocks and rubble in the
ancient jetties, were radio carbon 14 dating at 250 BC. "The scale of the
construction work was atounding, and implied a large skilled and organized
workforce." It is described as "startlng evidence" and one wonders why;
unless of course the ridiculous phoney versions of British History as
invented around the 1840-60 era in Oxford and Cambridge are still being
believed.
Probably two 80 metre jetties, both 8 meters wide with paved flagstone
surfaces, reaching out into deep water. "Astounding", not really when you
take the trouble to read our native British Histories which were
politically and religiously assassinated in Oxford, Cambridge and London in
the mid 19th Century. Actually this huge Iron Age construction is a tiny
mini harbour when compared to the enormous ancient Great Stone Port built
at Cardiff.
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Nehallenia of the Netherlands and Zebulon
"Brit-Am Now" - 342
3. A Dutch Goddess from Zebulon?
I "Facing The Ocean: The Atlantic and Its
Peoples 8000BC-AD 1500" by Barry Cunliff:
"The two Roman temples at Colijnsplaat and Domburg on either side of
the wide estuary formed by the Rhine, the Maas, and the Scheldt were
evidently places where those about to commit themselves to the North
Sea paid homage to the Goddess Nehalennia, or did so on their safe
arrival in the estuary." (page 9)
Nehalennia is now considered to have been a local goddess of the ethnic Dutch
that had been adapted to Romanized form. No explanation of the name has
been accepted.
<<Nehelennia is mentioned and discussed in quite a few secondary sources.
There are some nice pictures of a votive altar. She is usually shown with a
ship, dogs, and apples. Today she is clearly the most "dutch" goddess there
is. Therefore you will find a lot of dutch sites and books about
her.>> Dirk Mahling
We pointed to the Hebrew word Nahal (Nachal) meaning "stream" or "flow of
water" as a possible source.
"Strange Parallels. Zebulun, Tribe of Israel" by Helen Koppejan, 1984
traced the name to the settlement of Nahalel
in Ancient Israel in the former territory of Zebulon.
[Joshua 21:35]... NAHALAL WITH HER SUBURBS>>. In this case the name would
be derived from "Halel" meaning
to praise.
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Ezekiel: Judah Needs Ephraim; Repentance of Ephraim After Return to Israel; Healing of the Land
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4. The Need of Judah for Ephraim
Highlights from the Brit-Am Commentary on Ezekiel
Ezekiel (11:18) hints that first the exiles will return to the Land of
Israel and after that they shall put away their idols and keep the Law
(11:20). Ezekiel says that Judah has an obligation to help the Lost Ten
Tribes return. The complete return of Judah is dependent upon the return of
Samaria(16:53, 55, 61) meaning the Ten Tribes especially Manasseh. Manasseh
today is mainly the USA. God will renew His covenant with Judah and with
Israel (16:62).
[Ezekiel 11:17] THEREFORE SAY, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; I WILL EVEN GATHER
YOU FROM THE PEOPLE, AND ASSEMBLE YOU OUT OF THE COUNTRIES WHERE YE HAVE
BEEN SCATTERED, AND I WILL GIVE YOU THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
Eisemann understands this following passage to be referring to all of
Israel, including the Lost Ten Tribes.
Malbim: In the future God will ingather the Ten Tribes who were in faraway
lands and did not return in the time of the Second Temple.
[Ezekiel 11:18] AND THEY SHALL COME THITHER, AND THEY SHALL TAKE AWAY ALL
THE DETESTABLE THINGS THEREOF AND ALL THE ABOMINATIONS THEREOF FROM THENCE.
The exiles (from the Ten Tribes) will remove their idols and cease their
paganism in their places of exile. OR ELSE:
They shall first come back to the land and then they shall cast aside their
idols?
[Ezekiel 16:53] WHEN I SHALL BRING AGAIN THEIR CAPTIVITY, THE CAPTIVITY OF
SODOM AND HER DAUGHTERS, AND THE CAPTIVITY OF SAMARIA AND HER DAUGHTERS,
THEN WILL I BRING AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY OF THY CAPTIVES IN THE MIDST OF THEM:
<<THE CAPTIVITY OF SODOM AND HER DAUGHTERS>>: Moshkovitz (Daat
Mikra) suggests that this refers to the revival of the Land of Canaan.
Sodom was overturned and all the area around destroyed. So too, after the
Roman conquest and the Arab and Turkish occupation was most of the Land
turned into a wasteland without trees or greenery. The British and the Jews
restored it in part. The State of Israel is continuing to do so but not as
much nor as well as it should be. We have also been responsible for
ecological abuses that should be corrected. There is much that could and
should be done.
Malbim says here that at the return Samariaand Sodom(?) will be the most
important section of the Israelite nation whereas Judah will be pulled
after them and returned through them. He repeats this message in 16:55.
The Lost Ten Tribes will return. Manasseh will return. The exiles of Judah
who remained in exile will return together with the Lost Ten
Tribes.
Abarbanel (1435-1509): The Ten Tribes will return to Samaria and its
daughter-regions and so will the scattered dispersion of Judah be gathered
in from the four corners of the earth.
[Ezekiel 16:55] WHEN THY SISTERS, SODOM AND HER DAUGHTERS, SHALL RETURN TO
THEIR FORMER ESTATE, AND SAMARIA AND HER DAUGHTERS SHALL RETURN TO THEIR
FORMER ESTATE, THEN THOU AND THY DAUGHTERS SHALL RETURN TO YOUR FORMER
ESTATE. UNTIL NOW THEY ARE STILL OVERTURNED AND HAVE NOT RETURNED UNTO
THEIR FORMER STATE.
This is a message for Judah: In order for Judah to realize
herself and to bring back all her exiles and rehabilitate herself Judah
must also seek the Lost Ten Tribes and cause them to return! This is
important to Judah for her own sake! It is also hinting that rehabilitation
of the Land itself is somehow connected with the return of the Lost Ten
Tribes. See our Commentary on Isaiah 56:8 and Hosea chapter six, where we
have explained that according to prophecy: part of Judah would return to
the Land and begin to build it up. Then the Lost Ten Tribes would return in
two stages together with the remnant of Judah. The first part of this
process is well on its way.
<<SODOM AND HER DAUGHTERS, SHALL RETURN TO THEIR FORMER ESTATE, AND SAMARIA
AND HER DAUGHTERS SHALL RETURN TO THEIR FORMER ESTATE>>: Malbim:
[addressing Judah] For they [the Lost Tribes] shall be the most important
section in the returning and you subservient to them, and you shall return through them.
Abarbanel: There is no doubt that this promised ingathering will occur in
the Times of the Messiah. Until now it has never been fulfilled.
[Ezekiel 16:61] THEN THOU SHALT REMEMBER THY WAYS, AND BE ASHAMED, WHEN
THOU SHALT RECEIVE THY SISTERS, THINE ELDER AND THY YOUNGER: AND I WILL
GIVE THEM UNTO THEE FOR DAUGHTERS, BUT NOT BY THY COVENANT.
Judah must seek to bring the Lost Ten Tribes back. God makes the
participation of Judah in the process of returning the Lost Ten Tribes a
prior condition for the rehabilitation of Judah herself!
<<I WILL GIVE THEM UNTO THEE FOR DAUGHTERS>>: Judah will have some degree
of directional task to play in helping the Ten Tribes return and showing
them the way in which they should go. Judah however is also obligated to
get his own act together or else (God forbid) be punished.
<<BUT NOT BY THY COVENANT>>: The Lost Ten Tribes will not necessarily have
to convert to Judaism in our sense of the word though they will renew the
covenant between Israel and the Almighty and Judah is obligated to assist them.
[Ezekiel 16:62] AND I WILL ESTABLISH MY COVENANT WITH THEE; AND THOU SHALT
KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD:
God will once again accept Judah and all Israel.
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Unicorn Rule of Joseph over the Eearth
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3. Unicorn: Joseph Shall Rule
Louis Ginzberg ("Legends of the Jews", 1911) vol. iii,
quotes from Sifre D., 353; from Targ. Jerush. Deut. 33 16 17; and from PR
II, 43b 44a.: "..as the unicorn with his horns pushes away all other
animals, so too, shall Joseph's sons rule the nations, even to the ends of
the earth".
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Professor Terry Blodgett: Similarities in Germanic and Hebrew
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1. Similarities in Germanic and Hebrew
'Phonological Similarities in Germanic and
Hebrew' by Prof Terry Blodgett - now available for free download
The entire PhD thesis by Prof Blodgett is now available for download from
http://www.originofnations.org
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London an Ancient Phoenician Port
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1. Phoenicians in Britain
In our study of Joshua chapter 19 we mentioned the presence of people from
the Tribe of Asher in Britain together with the Phoenicians and the importance of the tin trade.
In this connection the following may be of interest:
Michael Smith on another list reports:
In a 1935 school textbook "Foreign Lands And Peoples" by J. Russell Smith
(California State Series):
"A block of tin tells a tale. A few years ago some men were digging a
foundation for a building in a city on the south coast of England. The
earth was very soft, so they dug down and down to find a firm
foundation. After going down for many feet, they came to something that
seemed like a floor of strong oak planks. It was the deck of an old
ship. The place where the city stood had once been a harbor. The ship had
sunk in the harbor, and the harbor had been filled by mud brought by
streams. The men cut through the deck of the sunken ship and found that
the ship was still loaded with blocks of tin.
The writing on the blocks of tin in the old ship buried beneath
the English city showed that it was a Phoenician ship......Ships sailed
from Phoenicia to trade with many countries along the shores of the
Mediterranean. They even went out into the Atlantic and up to England to
get tin; this trade in tin from Britain was one of the early trades of the
world."
also, from the 1967 World Book Encyclopedia: "Phoenician traders carried
their goods far and wide in ancient Europe. They traded cloth and costly
goods for tin and other goods from southwestern England......Some
scholars believe that the Phoenicians may have sailed as far as Cornwall,
in southwestern Britain, and worked the tin mines there."
-Michael