Research Sources from Brit-Am Now nos. 1401-1450 (Posted on 12 May, 2015, 23 Iyar, 5775)
Contents:
1. Amnon Goldberg: The Caucasus as a Border of Israel!
2. Why did the Lost Ten Tribes Get Lost? What was the Purpose?
3. Canada as the North Land
One of the major places in which the Lost Ten Tribes are to be found is the Land of the North
4. The Name Aegel in England as a Place-Name
5. The River Jordan, Dan, and the Rhine [ Eridanus] River in Europe
6. Models of Phoenician Boats found in the British Isles
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1. Amnon Goldberg: The Caucasus as a Border of Israel!
From: thaxted@netvision.net.il
This looks interesting!
http://moshiach.freeforums.org/biblical-borders-of-israel-t422.html?sid=d7f7676114a856829938ce584a324f06
Re: Biblical borders of Israel
by Reuven Chaim on Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:51 pm
Continuing from lectures with Nazir Elkanah Eliav
Israel's northern border is the river Dan in honor of the tribe of Dan who lived there. Actually, it's correct to say Don - because in this case, vocalization kamatz is read as "o". River Don, which flows from the "abandoned" sea, in Hebrew to leave, to abandon - "Azov" - leaves the boundaries of the holy land, in other words, the upper limit of ancient Israel was the Don River, which flows from the "abandoned" sea, Azov Sea.
Next come the Golan Heights, which is modern Dombay and Teberda - North Caucusus. Caspian Sea - Lake Kineret, which really does look like a violin, "Kinor" in Hebrew. Our sages of blessed memory called Lake Kineret a sea and described trade routes of ships in it, which hardly can be said about today's "Kineret". The town of Derbent - this is the real biblical Tveriya [i.e. Tiberias], fortified walls of which impressed and amazed everyone who was there. These walls "Homot" reach Kineret and there is no trace of such fortifications in the city which is today called "Tveriya". Furthermore Talmud says that in the north of Tveriya there are natural hot springs and they are in the north of Derbent in Kayakent. Besides ancient Tveriya was rich with vineyards, and olive trees did not grow around it.
Georgia or Gruziya as it must be correctly pronounced, for example, is named in honor of the mountain "Grezim" The Georgians themselves call their land Iberia from the Hebrew word "Ivri" or "Ever" - Avraham's great grandfather. Chechnya, North Ossetia and Dagestan - are all parts of ancient Galilee. Azerbaijan, Turkey, Armenia - region Gilead. There is a Turkish city called Tushba or Tishbi - where Eliyahu haNavi [Elijah the Prophet] was from. He is also called Eliyahu a-Tishbi, Eliyahu a-Gilyadi. This topic is very, very big and I can further delve into it, but we do not have enough pages.
Just wanted to lift a veil a little to those unhappy ones that build absurd theories and fictions about how the Jews were in the Caucasus. And these imaginary and false "historians" do not have any archaeological or cuneiform evidence confirming their false theories. We first and foremost have our Torah and statements of our sages, moreover every modern archeologist - Egyptologist will be able to confirm to you authentic borders of ancient kingdom of Israel, that stretched from Yemen in the south to the Don River in the north, from the Nile River in the west to India in the east.
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2. Why did the Lost Ten Tribes Get Lost? What was the Purpose?
Why did the Lost Ten Tribes Get Lost?
What was the Purpose of the Almighty in allowing this to happen?
We have dealt with this question in the articles:
The Divine Purpose for the Exile and Division of the Tribes
http://britam.org/tape3.html
The Yearning of Ephraim For Redemption
http://www.britam.org/kook8.html
A recent talk we had showed us that the explanation we have may be presented in a more simple straight-forward manner.
We would like to point out that the explanation we propose is distinct from the phenomenon, i.e. even if you do not accept the reason we suggest you cannot deny the fact of it having happened.
Our suggestion is that originally the existed:
Plan A that was the original intention.
Plan B that was to go into effect if Plan A proved unworkable.
Plan A said that the Hebrews were to receive the Torah, conquer and settle Canaan, keep the Torah, induce all of mankind to correct their ways and follow their example.
The Israelites proved inadequate so plan B was put into effect.
Plan B was that the Israelites would split in two.
One portion (Judah) would keep the Torah.
The other portion (Israel-Joseph) would loose its identity, become assimilated by the Gentiles, following an ancestral instinct elevate itself whilst dragging all other peoples in its train, and finally re-unite with Judah.
It appears that we may well be in the final stages of plan B as we shall explain elsewhere.
The sources for this explanation comprise Biblical and Rabbinical passages as partially explained in the above articles.
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3. Canada as the North Land
One of the major places in which the Lost Ten Tribes are to be found is the Land of the North
The Lost Ten Tribes
IN THE NORTH
http://www.britam.org/Proof/geo/geoNorth.html
[Jeremiah 3:12]
"GO AND PROCLAIM THESE WORDS TOWARD THE NORTH, AND SAY, RETURN, THOU BACKSLIDING ISRAEL, SAITH THE LORD; AND I WILL NOT CAUSE MINE ANGER TO FALL UPON YOU: FOR I AM MERCIFUL, SAITH THE LORD, AND I WILL NOT KEEP ANGER FOR EVER".
[Jeremiah 3:18]
" IN THOSE DAYS THE HOUSE OF JUDAH SHALL WALK WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, AND THEY SHALL COME TOGETHER OUT OF THE LAND OF THE NORTH TO THE LAND THAT I HAVE GIVEN FOR AN INHERITANCE UNTO YOUR FATHERS".
We see from the above notes that when Canada was given its name, other alternatives were considered.
Among the names that it was proposed for Canada were
Borealia from 'borealis', the Latin word for 'northern'; compared with Australia (Meaning South Land)
and
Norland.
Both Borealia and Norland connote Land of the North.
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4. The Name Aegel in England as a Place-Name
One of our proofs is that the Hebrew Name Aegel meaning "bull-calf" and a nickname for Ephraim (
Jeremiah 31:18)
http://www.britam.org/Proof/Joseph/joBull.html
was also used in Europe as an alternative for, or another way (as possible in Hebrew) of pronouncing the ethnic term "Angle".
England means Angle-Land and therefore means "Aegel-Land" i.e. Land of Ephraim.
In this connection it is interesting to note the use of the term "Aegel" in English place-names.
The following example applies to the area of Kent and to the name Ailesford which it is suggested derived from Aegelesthrep.
This is a specific circumstance in which the term "Aegel" was recalled incidentally.
Examples could not doubt be multiplied from all over England.
The Anglo Saxon Chronicles mentions the place Aegelesthrep.
### which is undoubtedly [now] Aylesford, given the following names recorded over the years: Ailesford (ME), Aegelsford (ME), Aeglesforda (OE), Elesford (A.Nor Domesday 1086 a.d.). I suggest the name is derived from the place 1 mile uphill from here, called Eccles. This would be logical as Eccles was the original church and parish in the area, and Aylesford as a village on the Medway below it would likely have been called Eccles-ford originally or that ford was appended to the current name for Eccles e.g. Aiglessa-ford. It's a short step from here to attested names for Aylesford, of Aeglesforda etc. ###
Regards
Herbie ###
Source:
brittonica@yahoogroups.com
Mon Nov 23, 2009 5:45 am (PST)
1a.
Origin of the name Aylesford
Posted by: "Herbie Blackburn"
Note also:
From Elesham to Aylsham . . .
## 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. ##
http://www.edp24.co.uk/Content/Community
/Aylsham/asp/history.asp (URL apparently now expired).
Aegel House in Norfolk named after a Saxon named Aegel.
http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/consumption/
groups/public/documents/general_
resources/ncc051028.pdf
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5. The River Jordan, Dan, and the Rhine [ Eridanus] River in Europe
Question:
k wrote:
I was interested in reading your article. I have been wondering how the name Jordan could possibly be connected to Dan. Land of Dan was located near or at the head waters of the Jordan River. I would love to find out that my ancestry was from Israel.
Does Jordan have any connections to Israel?
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Brit-Am Reply:
The Jordan in Hebrew is pronounced Yardan. The Sages explained the name to mean "Yored (Descend from) Dan: since one of the major water sources of the Jordan is a spring that emerges from the site of Dan in Galilee.
Neverthless, chances are that the two names Dan and Yarden are not related to each other and the Sages merely made the association for illustrative purposes.
The River Rhine in Ancient Times was called Eridanus. This name, in our opinion derives from the word Jordan. Israelites on their way northward named the Rhine after the Jordan!
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6. Models of Phoenician Boats found in the British Isles
Extracts from:
The Phoenicians in West Europe: From Canaan to Cornwall & (?) Cork
by Harry Bourne
http://phoenicia.org/canaancornwall.html
The Atlanto/Celtic connection seems reinforced by the fact that it seems the combination of the Mediterano/Atlantic features are also shared with the ships of the Celtic or Gaulish tribe of that part of Gaul (= most of modern France) that was Armorica/is Brittany called the Veneti.
These were the Venetic ponti that represent the high point of Celtic ship-building and were admired by no less than Julius Caesar (1 st c. B. C. Roman) as being superbly adapted for Atlantic conditions. If this is correct, clearly Phoenico/Punic shipbuilding was more influential than might be supposed. The Atlantic linkage continues with the saviero/xavega only rarely having sails and this is so for most of the Celto/Irish currach; both the saviero/xavego and the currach had oars retained on thole -pins not rowlocks and the saviero in Johnstone's Plate 8:8 plus the currach depicted on a slab at Bantry Bay (west Cork in s/west Ire.) are adorned with crosses at one end.
There are three other other vessels from find-spots in the British Isles that may just belong here. They are the boat-(?) bowl found at Caregwle (north Wales), the so-called "Monk's Boat" form Lough Lene (Westmeath, Ireland), the gold model of a boat from Broighter (Derry/Londonderry, Ireland).
The bowl or model of a boat/ship from Caergwle was for a very long time described as a bowl made from wood that was generally accepted as being oak, covered in gold leaf and repeating the dimensions of a currach. Recent studies have led to somewhat different conclusions. They have shown that under the gold-leaf covering is not an object of oak or any other kind of wood but shale. Also differing from past conclusions is Christopher Hawkes (cited by Johnstone ib.).
Hawkes (ib.) argued that the shape is not that of a currach but that of a Phoenician tub-shaped golah. If accepted, the attested Phoenic/Punic presence on the coasts of Portugal plus a possible analogy from north Wales in west Britain would closely parallel the 10 Greek ships proven by anchor-shanks from Setubal Bay (Portugal) and echoed by another again in north Wales but this time at Porth Felen. The Caergwle boat is of the Bronze Age but the anchor-stocks are said by Eric Boon (Antiquaries Journal 1975) to be of Iron Age date.
Another possible is the Broighter vessel according to Paul Ashbee (The Bronze Age Barrows of Britain 1960). The gold of the vessel has been attributed to gold from India, Ireland and Germany on various grounds. Now that the analysts of prehistoric gold at Stuttgart (Germany) have identified that the gold of the equally famous torc, boat model plus the other objects at Broighter are probably of Group-PC which is of German origin, we can now be reasonably certain of the date for the Broighter hoard. PC-group gold usually has an Iron Age date in Ireland and with the Broighter torc plus the boat-model being of gold from the same source and the torc being of the Iron Age, this self-evidently proves the boat is also of the same date.
Much the same argument about whether a wooden vessel or a currach is represented at Broighter as was seen to pertain to the Caergwle object. With it having been said that there are opinions regarding as likely that Venetic ships were known in the British Isles, John de Courcy Ireland (Ireland & the Irish in Maritime History 1986) would add to this by seeing the Broighter boat as a model of a Venetic ship. It is usually regarded as having the dimensions of a currach but if de Courcy Ireland could be proved to be correct and given possible Phoenico/Punic influences on the ancestral Venetic form, there might be the linkage sought by Ashbee (ib.) but at rather more remove in time than he thought was the case.
The boat from Lough Lene may just belong here. The boat has been variously placed in the in the Irish Iron Age, a date equivalent to the Roman period in Britain or the Medieval period (hence the epithet of Monk's Boat). The earliest possible interpretation of the C14-date with calibration may just lift it into an era possibly relevant for us here. If so, the fact of Mediterranean traits seen above as of probable Phoenico/Punic origin included use of mortice and tenon joints, those of the Lough Lene boat may just belong here too.
The direct Mediterrano/southern linkage is presumably strengthened by the find of a skull of Barbary ape (the type well known to us in Britain via those at Gibraltar) at Emain Macha (close to Armagh) as part of an apparent ritual deposit.