Research Sources from Brit-Am Now nos. 451-500
Contents:
Bob Davis: Extant of British Empire
Andrew Martin: Israelite Victories
Iben Ezra: England and Edge of the Earth
Winston Churchill on Heredity
Chinese scholar traces Israelites and Esau to China
Israelites from Issachar in Troy?
Rochelle I. Altman: Phoenicians in Britain. Evidence from Scripts
Does The Name Ireland mean "Hebrew"?
The Passing of a Scholar (H. L. HOEH)
Zaharias P. THUNDY : Visigoths in England. Mercia
Bob Davis: Mercia in Spain as well as England?
Sparta from Edom and therefore Brothers to Israel?
The Coming of the White Man to North America. Corn in Africa and Population Explosion
William Rasmussen: Manasses Battle named by South, Bull Run by North
Edomite Homo Characteristics of Sparta. Lacedomonian Admixture
Steve Coneglan: Geometrical Points about the Union Jack
America = Ami & reuchma ?
Americans nicknamed "Amis" (i.e. Plural of "Ami")
Isacon Father of Brittus (Britain) and Albanus (Scotland)
David Faux: Steppe Peoples Migrated to Scandinavia after ca. 400 CE
Cyrus and American Presidents
Air-Travel Prophesied by Isaiah in Return of the Tribes. Assyria in Ashkenaz (Germany)? Tarshish and the US Dollar Sign.
Edom Returns; Sources
Early British Contacts with Carthage
Athol Bloomer : Spanish Marrano Black Irish
Bob Davis: Extant of British Empire
"Brit-Am Now"- 451
1. Bob Davis: Extant of British Empire
From: Bob Davis
Dear Yair
In looking at your web site it seems you may have underestimated the numbers
of countries that were part of the British Empire. This is the list. they
are almost all now voluntarily part of the Commonwealth which is still lead
by the Queen:
Antigua and Barbuda Australia, The Bahamas, Bangladesh Barbados Belize
Botswana Brunei Darussalam Cameroon Canada Cyprus Dominica Fiji Islands
The Gambia Ghana Grenada Guyana India Jamaica Kenya Kiribati
Lesotho Malawi Malaysia Maldives Malta Mauritius Mozambique
Namibia Nauru New Zealand Nigeria Pakistan Papua New Guinea St Lucia
St Kitts and Nevis St Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa Seychelles
Sierra Leone Singapore Solomon Islands South Africa Sri Lanka
Swaziland Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tuvalu Uganda United Kingdom
United Republic of Tanzania Vanuatu Zambia
Under "Lost or given back" you should add America and Ireland. However, if
you consider the countries that were invaded by the British army throughout
history, and then returned promptly for whatever reason, you would need to
include all of North Africa, The Middle East, the Near East, most of Europe,
Afghanistan (3 times so far) and even Peking! Most of the royal families of
Europe and Russia were also either related to or descended from Queen
Victoria. Of course, there is no country in the world where British
missionaries have not been.
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Andrew Martin: Israelite Victories
"Brit-Am Now"- 451
5. Andrew Martin: Israelite Victories
Subject: Ephraim
Dear Mr Davidiy,
I read with great interest some of the information posted on your website.
I also am of Ephraim (Australia) and was given to understand this by my
grandfather. I note with interest the convincing victory of 500 Scottish
soldiers over some 25,000 Russians in the Crimean War; the clear defeat of
the German Luftwaffe over British skies even though the British were
outnumbered 3: 1; and the overwhelming defeat of the Turks at Beersheva by
800 Australian and New Zealand Light Horsemen, even though they had to
cross several kilometres of open plains in the direct face of fire. I also
note with interest the defeat of Egypt by Israel in the Six Day War - when
the Egyptians fled before Israel when seeing an army of white soldiers on
the tanks of Israel (Psalm 91:7). The clear turning of Ephraim from
idolatry (Roman Catholicism) is also noteworthy.
Oh may that day come soon when Almighty HaShem brings the two sticks
together as He has promised even beyameinu [In our days]!
Yours Sincerely,
Andrew P. Martin
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Iben Ezra: England and Edge of the Earth
Brit-Am Now"- 452
7. Psalms 20
Iben Ezra (1080-1164 CE) says this Psalm is being expressed from the
point of view of the warriors of David (or of the Messiah) who go out with
him to war.
Iben Ezra was born in Spain and during his lifetime traveled in France,
Italy, North Africa, Egypt, the Land of Israel, and reached India. Towards
the end of his life he settled in England and apparently died there. One
report says he was killed by a "wild mob", whatever that means.
"Deconstructing the Bible. Abraham Ibn Ezra's Introduction to the Torah,"
by Irene Lancaster, London 2003 (p.17):
# One of the most puzzling questions in Jewish intellectual history is why Ibn Ezra should have come
to England? The answer may well lie in the contemporary cultural and
financial links between the Jews of Normandy and England described above.
However, other reasons may well have been equally important for Ibn Ezra.
In many ways England could be considered as prime virgin territory for the
implanting of Sephardic [i.e. Spanish Jewish] cultural seeds at the end of
one man's very long life. In those days 'Angleterre' was regarded as being
at the 'edge of the earth', and was therefore of great interest to someone
of Ibn Ezra's evangelical and messianic mentality #.
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Winston Churchill on Heredity
Brit-Am Now"- 454
3. Winston Churchill on Heredity
"What a strange thing heredity is. We are really only variants of what has
gone before"
Winston Churchill in a letter to his wife.
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Chinese scholar traces Israelites and Esau to China
"Brit-Am Now"- 466
4. Chinese scholar traces Israelites and Esau to China
Chinese ancestors came from Red Sea area?
(Eastday.com)
Updated: 2004-10-13 14:21
Amateur historian Su San has created an enormous controversy with claims of
Chinese ancestors were from the Red Sea area and human civilization began
in the Middle East and North Africa.
These two stunning conclusions have been put forward in two recently
published books, and critics and readers have wasted no time in their attack.
"They call my books nonsense," says 40-year-old Su, a Henan Province
native. "They just can't bear to think there's a Western ancestor for
Chinese."
With a bachelor's degree on English literature and a master's degree on
economics, Su previously worked for a foreign company and was also an
English teacher.
Two years ago, she quit her managerial job to study history, but not at
university, just on the Internet. She published book reviews and essays on
cultural study Websites.
In her first book, "A Conjecture on Sanxingdui Civilization," she boldly
concludes that the Sanxingdui ruins came from Red Sea civilization. Since
excavation in 1929 in Sichuan Province, the Sanxingdui ruins has been the
topic of hot debate because of antiques discovered there are exotic and
unusual.
In her second book, "Toward the East," she traced the origin of Chinese
civilization through the Old Testament of the Bible.
"The Bible is a serious record of a royal family, who colonized around the
Earth with their wealth and wisdom," she says. "I believe Chinese ancestors
were Semites, Israelis and from other Middle Eastern nations. The Chinese
people's respect for chastity and the elderly originates from primitive
Judaism."
She even found interesting relations between the earliest Chinese dynasties
and the Bible.
According to her study, Hagar, wife of Abraham, established the Xia Dynasty
(c. 21st century-16th century BC). His grandson Esau's offspring built the
Shang Dynasty (c. 16th century-11th century BC ), and the name of the Zhou
Dynasty (c. 11th century-221 BC) originated from the word "Jew."
Su emphasizes she has more freedom than traditional Chinese archeologists
and historians whom she claims work in a rigid style.
"I have a free mind and hate restrain," Su says. "I have no background in
education on archeology or ancient cultural study. This allows me to think
outside the traditional stereotype and discover the real origins of Chinese."
Su grew up in a small mountainous village near Luoyang of Henan Province,
the ancient capital of the Zhou Dynasty.
But few experts agree with her claims.
"Until now most Sanxingdui antiques belonged to Chinese local civilization
and mainstream experts believe Sanxingdui is still a Chinese civilization
with only small foreign influences," says He Yun'ao, director of Cultural
and Natural Relics Research Institute at Nanjing University.
He explains that most jade and pottery antiques discovered in Sanxingdui
bear strong Chinese characters. But some bronze antiques are different from
traditional Chinese civilizations from along the Yellow River.
"This probably shows the variety of Chinese civilizations, which are not
only from along the Yellow River," He says. "In Sanxingdui, there's a road
to India. But since there's no records for the area, archeology cannot
answer the question. Gene analysis can tell the truth but until now no
human remains have been unearthed there."
Professor Jiang Xiaoyuan, dean of the Human Studies Institute at Shanghai
Jiao Tong University, says Su's study can be hard to swallow.
"Her opinions are radical and far from traditional research, which probably
will be accepted after 100 years," says Jiang. "I agree with parts of her
research about Sanxingdui."
But most Chinese historians are not even close to considering her research.
"She hasn't got a historical education but obviously she has done a lot of
library work," comments Jiang. "Her books are far better than amateur
nonsense. I suggest she send her articles to professional magazines such as
'Historical Study,' which will draw attention. I guess most experts won't
even glance at her books."
Su's study may not be traditional but she says it is informed
evidence-based research and a new way of thinking.
Just like the old Chinese saying, "throw out bricks to draw jades." "I wish
my books were bricks, attracting experts' attention and finally discover
genuine jade," she says.
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Israelites from Issachar in Troy?
"Brit-Am Now"- 474
3. Issachar and Troy? New Possibilities?
# However, the Philistine problem is more profound: the
tribes of Zebulun and Asher are related to sea peoples
in the Onomasticon of Amenemope. Garbini in a book on
the Philistines has related Issachar to the Tjekker,
Giovanni Garbini's 1997 book "I Filistei: Gli
Antagonisti di Israele" #
# Did you know that in his book on the Philistines, Garbini equates the
tribe of Issachar with the Tjekker and the Tjekker with Teucrians?
The Teucrians were the people of Troy.
Were they also Israelites?
The possibility has been raised by others in the past several times.
Until now we doubted it and still do
but perhaps a renewed examination of the evidence available could be
due?
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Rochelle I. Altman: Phoenicians in Britain. Evidence from Scripts
"Brit-Am Now"- 474
4. Phoenicians in Britain
Rochelle Altman is a well-know scholar.
Rochelle I. Altman is co-coordinator of IOUDAIOS-L, a virtual
community of scholars engaged in on-line discussion of Judaism in the
Greco-Roman world. She is an expert on scripts, an historian of writing
systems. She is also a scholar of Anglo-Saxon dialects and literature.
She knows Hebrew well and judging by her name and interests is probably Jewish.
In ca. 1992 She discovered "the Hebrew alphabet -- in a Pre-Rashi script -- across
the bottom of a leaf in the OE Hexateuch --" i.e. a manuscript containing the first six books of the
Old Testament. This proved that there was some knowledge of the Hebrew language in England
before the Norman invasions.
She has just written a work claiming that the Phoenicians were in
Britain from ancient times and that Christianity came to Britain
via the overseas connections of the Phoenician community.
This work has aroused quite a bit of controversy in academic circles.
I have not yet seen the book but hope to do so since it may contain
informational leads of use to us. From the discussions it appears that the evidence
Rochelle mainly relies upon
consists of written reports and Latin expressions that everywhere else
are found only amongst groups of Phoenician descent and appear to be translations of
Phoenician formulae.
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Does The Name Ireland mean "Hebrew"?
"Brit-Am Now"- 479
1. Does The Name Ireland mean "Hebrew"?
From: J B
ERIN, an ancient name for Ireland. The oldest form of the word is Eriu,
of which Erinn is the dative case. Eriu was itself almost certainly a
contraction from a still more primitive- form Iberiu or Iveriu; for
when the name of the island was written in ancient Greek it appeared as
Iouepvih (Ivernia), and in Latin as Iberio, Hiberio or Hibernia, the first
syllable of the word Eriu being thus represented in the classical languages by
two distinct vowel sounds separated by b or v. Of the Latin variants,
Iberio is the form found in the most ancient Irish MSS., such as the Coilfession
of St Patrick, and the same saints Epistle to Coroticus. Further evidence
to the same effect is found in the fact that the ancient Breton and Welsh
names for Ireland were Ywerddon or Iverdon. In later Gaelic literature
the primitive form Eriu became the dissyllable Eire; hence the Norsemen
called the island the land of Eire, i.e. Ireland, the latter word being
originally pronounced in three syllables. (See IRELAND: Notices of Ireland in Greek
and Roman writers.)
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The Passing of a Scholar (H. L. HOEH)
"Brit-Am Now"- 480
4. The Passing of a Scholar (H. L. HOEH)
Herman L. HOEH has just passed away. H. L. HOEH greeted the first
publication of "The Tribes" enthusiastically and recommended his
acquaintances and students to buy it. He was one of our first
supporters.
He was the author of a history of the world that relied heavily on
traditional and mythological sources many of which were relatively unknown and difficult to come by. His
work is an invaluable fount of source material and well worth reading.
Herman L. HOEH, "Compendium of World History", A Dissertation
Presented to The Faculty of the Ambassador College Graduate School of Theology
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Theology,
1962 (1963-1965, 1967 Edition), USA.
We did not know
H. L. HOEH personally but spoke to him a few times on the phone and
found him to be civil, considerate, and discerning. May he rest in peace.
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Zaharias P. THUNDY : Visigoths in England. Mercia
"Brit-Am Now"- 480
5. Visigoths in England
The name "Iberia" for Spain (from which we have the expression "Iberian
Peninsula" for Spain and Portugal together) derives from the Greeks applying the name Iberi to the natives of
Spain.
The Greeks used this term since due to the previous presence of a
people named "Iberi" in Spain with whom they had become acquainted. This
explanation is confirmed by the Cambridge Ancient History.
The original "Iberi" in Spain had mostly moved out as we emphasize
often.
Later, Visigoths and other "Germanic" tribes conquered parts of Spain
and established minor kingdoms there.
Amongst the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms in England Mercia in the center was
possibly the most important.
Zaharias P. THUNDY ( "Millenium. Apocalypse and Antichrist," USA,
1998) traced the settlers of Mercia to the Visigoths in Spain.
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Mercia in Spain as well as England?
"Brit-Am Now"- 481
3. Mercia in Spain as well as England?
Subject: "Brit-Am Now"-480
item 5. Visigoths in England
From: Bob Davis
Thanks Yair. Very interesting. Murcia (Pronounced Mercia) is also a
region of Spain that was part of the Visigoth kingdom
Bob Davis
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Sparta from Edom and therefore Brothers to Israel?
"Brit-Am Now"-483
1. Sparta: Israel or Edom?
From: duke
Subject: Tribe of Dan
The book of I Maccabees reports of a letter from the Areus,
king of the Spartans to Onias, the high priest in Jerusalem:
# Areus, king of the Spartans, to Onias, the high priest,
greetings.
It has been discovered in a document concerning the Spartans
and the Jews that they are brothers, and are of the race of
Abraham. #
[I Maccabees 12:20-21.]
Unfortunately, the document referred to in the letter has
never been found by modern historians. However, Flavius
Josephus also recorded the letter in his writings:
# We have met with a certain writing, whereby we have
discovered that the Jews and the Spartans are of one stock,
and are derived from the kindred of Abraham. It is but
just, therefore, that you, who are our brethren, should send
to us about any of your concerns as you please. We will
also do the same thing, and esteem your concerns as our own,
and will look upon our concerns as in common with yours.
Demotoles, who brings you this letter, will bring your
answer back to us. This letter is foursquare; and the
symbol is an eagle with a dragon in his claws. # [Flavius
Josephus, The Works of Josephus, Translated, William
Whiston, A.M. (Lynn, MA Hendrickson Publishers, 1980),
Antiquities of the Jews, Book XII, Chapter IV, 10, page
256)
Before Onias could respond to the letter, Jerusalem was
invaded by Antiochus Epiphanes. Onias died but his
successor Jonathan wrote the following response:
# Jonathan the high priest, the senate of the nation, the
priests, and the rest of the Jewish people, to the Spartans
and their brothers send greetings.
In the past a letter was sent to Onias, the high priest from
Areus, one of your kings, stating that you are indeed our
brothers, as the copy subjoined assets.
Onias received the envoy with honor, and accepted the
letter, in which clear reference was made to friendship and
alliance.
For our part though, we have no need of these, having the
consolation of the holy books in our possession.
We venture to send, to renew our fraternal friendship with
you, so that we may not become strangers to you, for a long
time has elapsed since you sent us the letter.
We may say that constantly on every occasion, at our
festivals and on other appointed days, we make a remembrance
of you in the sacrifices we offer and in our prayers, as it
is right and fitting to remember our brothers. # [The
Apocrypha (London Oxford University Press), I Maccabees 12:6-
11]
The Spartans lived on the southern peninsula of Greece
called Arcadia. Over the centuries some of them migrated
across the Aegean Sea and built the city of Troy. Paris,
the prince of the Trojans, fell in love with Helen the wife
of the Spartan king which led to the famous Trojan War. It
was after Prince Paris that the capital of France was
named. Many historians believe, for this and other reasons,
that the Franks and Danes are descended from the Spartans
who were from the tribe of Dan.
Comment: I think you are mistaken about the Spartans being the founders
of Troy. Rather they were amongst its destroyers according to Homer. The society of early Sparta was quite cruel. The
Spartans were one of the contributing elements to the early population of Rome. We believe Sparta was an Edomite
colony and thus "brothers" to Israel.
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The Coming of the White Man to North America. Corn in Africa and Population Explosion
Brit-Am Now - 485
2. The Coming of the White Man to North America and Brit-Am Comment
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/25/opinion/25mann.html?oref=login
NYTimes.com
Unnatural Abundance
By CHARLES C. MANN
Published: November 25, 2004
[Extracts Only]:
In "The First Thanksgiving," the colonists appear to be eating turkey.
Historians, however, say the more likely main course was a pottage of
European wheat and Indian corn. The mix was emblematic of what Dr.
Crosby has called "the Columbian Exchange," the movement of species between
the Old and New Worlds. Wheat, following bluegrass and clover, occupied
huge swathes of the Midwestern savanna. Meanwhile, corn conquered Africa,
Asia and central Europe. Corn so thrived in 16th- and 17th-century Africa,
Dr. Crosby has argued, that it sustained a population explosion that let
Europeans take millions of Africans for slaves without emptying the
continent.
....Soon after Europeans arrived, European diseases killed
90 percent or more of the hemisphere's original inhabitants - at least 30
million people, and possibly 100 million, according to most recent
estimates.
Four years before the Pilgrims' arrival, shipwrecked French sailors
accidentally unleashed an epidemic, possibly viral hepatitis, on Cape
Cod, which then swept through New England. The Pilgrims moved into an Indian
village, Patuxet, that had been emptied by disease; they survived the
first winter only after digging up food caches in victims' houses and graves.
Some historians have speculated that holding the Thanksgiving meal was,
in part, an act of apology.
The epidemics were momentous historically, for they opened up the
continents to European assault. They were equally momentous
ecologically, for they changed the continents themselves. American Indians were
ambitious, sophisticated landscape managers. In South America, they
drained vast areas of wetland; scattered networks of raised agricultural fields
in Bolivia, Colombia and the Guianas; and converted much of Amazonia into
an "anthropogenic" forest - a mix of gardens, orchards and agricultural
forests. Visitors to the Andes still gawp at the Indian terraces that
carpet the highlands - more than 2,000 square miles of them in Peru
alone, according to the geographer William M. Denevan, most of them at more
than 9,000 feet.
Brit-Am Comment:
There may well have been Israelites amongst the native Amerindians as
many believebut most of them were not of Hebrew ancestry according to our
understanding.
The Israelites who came to North America had the way cleared before
them as much by ecological factors and the unintentional spread of plagues (such as
the common cold) for which most of the natives had no natural resistance.
A similar event appears to have occurred when the Israelites entered
the Land of Canaanite.
The Bible says that the Canaanites would be driven out by the
sicknesses of Egypt and by the "hornet". The word translated as 'hornet" in the Bible is "Tsirah" and
some commentators (e.g. Iben Ezra) says it is cognate with the word translated as "leprosy" ("Tsarat" from
the same root) and actually means a kind of sickness or a sickness transmitted by some kind of mite or other insect.
The epidemics that cleared the way for Israelite settlement in North
America:
[Exodus 23:27] I WILL SEND MY FEAR BEFORE THEE, AND WILL DESTROY ALL
THE PEOPLE TO WHOM THOU SHALT COME, AND I WILL MAKE ALL THINE ENEMIES TURN
THEIR BACKS UNTO THEE.
[Exodus 23:28] AND I WILL SEND HORNETS BEFORE THEE, WHICH SHALL DRIVE
OUT THE HIVITE, THE CANAANITE, AND THE HITTITE, FROM BEFORE
THEE.
[Exodus 23:29] I WILL NOT DRIVE THEM OUT FROM BEFORE THEE IN ONE
YEAR; LEST THE LAND BECOME DESOLATE, AND THE BEAST OF THE FIELD MULTIPLY
AGAINST THEE.
[Exodus 23:30] BY LITTLE AND LITTLE I WILL DRIVE THEM OUT FROM BEFORE
THEE, UNTIL THOU BE INCREASED, AND INHERIT THE LAND.
[Deuteronomy 7:15] AND THE LORD WILL TAKE AWAY FROM THEE ALL SICKNESS,
AND WILL PUT NONE OF THE EVIL DISEASES OF EGYPT, WHICH THOU KNOWEST, UPON
THEE; BUT WILL LAY THEM UPON ALL THEM THAT HATE THEE.
[Deuteronomy 7:16] AND THOU SHALT CONSUME ALL THE PEOPLE WHICH THE LORD
THY GOD SHALL DELIVER THEE; THINE EYE SHALL HAVE NO PITY UPON THEM: NEITHER
SHALT THOU SERVE THEIR GODS; FOR THAT WILL BE A SNARE UNTO THEE.
[Deuteronomy 7:17] IF THOU SHALT SAY IN THINE HEART, THESE NATIONS
ARE MORE THAN I; HOW CAN I DISPOSSESS THEM?
[Deuteronomy 7:18] THOU SHALT NOT BE AFRAID OF THEM: BUT SHALT WELL
REMEMBER WHAT THE LORD THY GOD DID UNTO PHARAOH, AND UNTO ALL EGYPT;
[Deuteronomy 7:19] THE GREAT TEMPTATIONS WHICH THINE EYES SAW, AND THE
SIGNS, AND THE WONDERS, AND THE MIGHTY HAND, AND THE STRETCHED OUT ARM,
WHEREBY THE LORD THY GOD BROUGHT THEE OUT: SO SHALL THE LORD THY GOD DO
UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE OF WHOM THOU ART AFRAID.
[Deuteronomy 7:20] MOREOVER THE LORD THY GOD WILL SEND THE HORNET
AMONG THEM, UNTIL THEY THAT ARE LEFT, AND HIDE THEMSELVES FROM THEE, BE
DESTROYED.
[Deuteronomy 7:21] THOU SHALT NOT BE AFFRIGHTED AT THEM: FOR THE LORD
THY GOD IS AMONG YOU, A MIGHTY GOD AND TERRIBLE.
[Deuteronomy 7:22] AND THE LORD THY GOD WILL PUT OUT THOSE NATIONS
BEFORE THEE BY LITTLE AND LITTLE: THOU MAYEST NOT CONSUME THEM AT ONCE, LEST
THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD INCREASE UPON THEE.
[Deuteronomy 7:23] BUT THE LORD THY GOD SHALL DELIVER THEM UNTO THEE,
AND SHALL DESTROY THEM WITH A MIGHTY DESTRUCTION,
[Joshua 24:12] AND I SENT THE HORNET BEFORE YOU, WHICH DRAVE THEM OUT
FROM BEFORE YOU, EVEN THE TWO KINGS OF THE AMORITES; BUT NOT WITH THY SWORD,
NOR WITH THY BOW.
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William Rasmussen: Manasses Battle named by South, Bull Run by North
"Brit-Am Now"-486
1. The Civil War: Manasseh versus Ephraim?
From: Woodrow Lovett
Re: "Brit-Am Now"-484
Mr. Collins opinion on the USA being Manasseh may be correct. The first
battle of the American civil war was the Battle of Manassas in 1861.
The Southern forces did not have the wherewithal to follow up and take
Washington, D.C. which foretold the eventual outcome of the war. There
was a second battle of Manassas in 1862 both battles may be referred to as
the battles of Bull Run.
Just a thought.
From: William Rasmussen
Shalom Yair: Excellent piece on Manassas. It is interesting to note
that the North [Yankees], called the first battle "Bull Run". It was named
after a creek that was in the vicinity of Manassas. The symbol of Ephraim is
a bull. The South [Confederates], called the battle "Manassas" after the
nearby town. One wonders why the South who was made up of Ephraim would
call the battle "Manassas" and the North who was made up of Manasseh,
would call the battle "Bull Run". There is a juxtaposition here and perhaps
an unwitting acknowledgement of the two tribes by both the North and the
South. Keep up the fascinating articles. Shalom, Bill Rasmussen
In the first division [in Biblical Times] the northern tribes led by
Ephraim split away from Judah and Benjamin under the House of David. In
the second case [a segment from Manasseh that included many from] Ephraim
under [J. Davis with Judah Benjamin attempted to split away [from the rest of
Manasseh] but were prevented from doing so by a man named after Abraham
the first Patriarch of the Hebrew nation. We have identified Britain as
dominated by Ephraim and in the American Civil War Britain did back the
Confederate side and considered intervening militarily on behalf of the
Confederates.
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Edomite Homo Characteristics of Sparta. Lacedomonian Admixture
"Brit-Am Now"-486
3. Remark and Question on Sparta
(a) From: thomas malloy
Subject: Re: "Brit-Am Now"-483
With regards to the Spartans being part of Edom. Given the autocratic
nature of their society and their love of homosexuality, I suspected
that this was the case. As I recall I read in one of your books that Eliphaz
son of Esau migrated to Greece. The descent of Esau ends this week's
Parashah.
The Native Americans had a legend of a bearded white man who set up
their culture. They worshiped a serpentine god, they had vestal virgins and
practiced human sacrifice, Have you ever read Hislop's Two Babylons?
(b) Dr Syke
In a message dated 11/29/2004 1:38:28 PM Eastern Standard Time,
britam@netvision.net.il writes:
The book of I Maccabees reports of a letter from the Areus,
king of the Spartans to Onias, the high priest in Jerusalem:
Yair
my copy reads the "Lacedemonians"
do historians consider them the same as the Spartans?
regards
DM
Answer:
Josephus (Antiquities of the Jews", Book 13, chapter 1, s.8) recalls
the incident and uses the terms interchangeably:
<<they came to Sparta, and delivered the epistle which they had
received of Jonathan to them; a copy of which here follows: "Jonathan the high
priest of the Jewish nation, and the senate, and body of the people of the
Jews, to the ephori, and senate, and people of the Lacedemonians, send
greeting.
...when in former times an epistle was brought to Onias, who was then
our high priest, from Areus, who at that time was your king, by Demoteles,
concerning the kindred that was between us and you...So the Lacedemonians
received the ambassadors kindly, and made a decree for friendship and
mutual assistance, and sent it to them..
In actuality the Spartans had ruled cruelly and barbarically over the
region of Lacedemonia in Greece but eventually they appear to have merged with their subject peoples.
Commentary of Translator (Winston?)
14 Whence it comes that these Lacedemonians declare themselves here to
be of kin to the Jews, as derived from the same ancestor, Abraham, I
cannot tell, unless, as Grotius supposes, they were derived from Dores, that
came of the Pelasgi. These are by Herodotus called barbarians, and perhaps
were derived from the Syrians and Arabians, the posterity of Abraham by
Keturah.
See Antiq. B. XIV. ch. 10. sect. 22; and Of the War, B. I. ch. 26.
sect. l; and Grot. on 1 Macc. 12:7.
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Steve Coneglan: Geometrical Points about the Union Jack
"Brit-Am Now"-492
5. Steve Coneglan: Geometrical Points about the Union Jack
... To those who know geometry, every cube has precisely 13 axes of
symmetry.
To check this fact please view the following link:
www.mathworld.wolfram.com/Cube.html
The implications of the number 13 relate directly to the tribes, which
were 13 in number in the Wilderness.
The Union Jack is itself a 2-dimensional analogue of the cube with its
13 axes of symmetry. Put simply, if we have a transparent cube in which
all 13 internal axes are visible, when we look at one face of the cube
directly through its midpoint we will see a Union Jack outlined on the surface.
The really cool part of it is that the midpoint line, which we use as our
point of orientation, actually appears as just a single point.
One gets the same basic effect when rotating the cube slightly and
using the midpoint of a surface edge as point of reference. The only
difference is that the border is now elongated from square to rectangle, in
fitting with the general dimensions of the standard.
The parallel between the axes and the tribes through the number 13
finds its expression in the Union Jack. Interestingly, there will always be 4
axes obscured when we look through the cube as above. The Union Jack
portrays these obscured axes in the saltire of St. Andrew and the white
borders of the St. George cross....
Stephen Coneglan
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America = Ami & reuchma ?
"Brit-Am Now"-492
7. The name "America" found in the Biblical Book of Hosea?
From: David Hill
Subject: The New Name of Israel
Was wondering if either one of you two have heard this
proposed before.
The person below states that from Hosea 2 that if we
were to say these one right after another it would be
"Ami Racham" which is phonetically close to
"American."
--- Sharon wrote:
From: "Sharon"
To: "David Hill"
Subject: Re: Significance of Hosea 2:1
Consider the Hebrew
used in Hosea 2:1. Here is Strong's:
05971 Ammi
07355 Racham
It is quite obvious to me that God is speaking to
"Ami-rakham" or "America" in Hosea.
Hosea 2 "Say to your brothers, "Ammi," and to your
sisters, "Racham."
Brit-Am Comment:
Hosea (chapter one) was told to take a loose woman and bear children.
The children are given names representing the Ten Tribes of Israel (and
NOT
Judah see Hosea 1:7).
At first the children receive names reflecting Rejection and Exile and
after that the names are changed
to reflect ingathering and reconciliation.
[Hosea 2:1] SAY YE UNTO YOUR BRETHREN, AMMI ["My People"]; AND TO YOUR
SISTERS, RUHAMAH ["She who is shown mercy unto"].
"Ammi" means "my people."
"Ruhamah" means "having been shown mercy to."
These names reflect the future changed state of the exiled Lost Ten
Tribes.
The two names when put together in Hebrew
sound something like: "Amiruchamah". If making one word, They could
possibly be pronounced something like "Americha-mah" which apart from the "mah" sound is close
enough to "America".
Some type of INTENDED connection is not necessarily so far-fetched.
There are names in Hebrew derived from "phrases' etc in which for
reasons of phonetics part of the root-source has been deleted, e.g. Avraham, Shmuel.
Even so, we would need something more to make a serious case out of
this proposition.
Nevertheless, it makes for an interesting possibility.
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Americans nicknamed "Amis" (i.e. Plural of "Ami")
"Brit-Am Now"- 493
6. Americans nicknamed "Amis" (i.e. Plural of "Ami") - My People Name
Given to Lost Israelites Hosea 2:1
From: Semadar
Subject: America
Just to let you know, when I lived in Germany most Germans referred
Americans as Ammis.
Osnath.
[Hosea 2:1] SAY YE UNTO YOUR BRETHREN, AMMI; AND TO YOUR SISTERS,
RUHAMAH.
"Ammi" means "my people."
"Ruhamah" means "having been shown mercy
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Isacon Father of Brittus (Britain) and Albanus (Scotland)
"Brit-Am Now"- 494
1. "Isacon" (Isaac) Ancestor of the Scots
The Four Ancient Books of Wales
by William F. Skene [1868]
THE RACES OF BRITAIN AND THE PLACE OF THE PICTS AMONG THEM.
p.99
In the Albanic Duan, which seems to have belonged to some collection of
additions to Nennius, and which contains the oldest record of the
ethnological traditions of Scotland, the brothers Brittus and Albanus
appear as the eponymi of the two Celtic races inhabiting respectively
Britain and Alban, or Scotland. Thus--
p. 100
"O, all ye learned of Alban,
Ye well-skilled host of yellow hair,
What was the first invasion? Is it known to you?
Which took the land of Alban?
Albanus possessed it; numerous his hosts.
He was the illustrious son of Isacon.
He and Briutus were brothers without deceit.
From him Alban of ships has its name.
Briutus banished his active brother
Across the stormy sea of Icht.
Briutus possessed the noble Alban
As far as the conspicuous promontory of Fothudain."
Note: The father of the brothers is named "Isacon" cf. "Isaac"?
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Steppe Peoples Migrated to Scandinavia after ca. 400 CE
"Brit-Am Now"- 495
3. New Finds Confirm Brit-Am Historical Explanations?
David Faux uses mainly DNA findings in ongoing research that he
believes could show a linkage through ancestral migrations between Central Asia,
the Khazars, Ashkenazic Jews, Scandinavia, and outlying isles of
Scotland.
The time frame he suggests is after 400 CE.
Here is an extract from a recent posting of his:
# ... about the era before circa 400 AD. However, it is at this time, as the Roman Empire was crumbling, that a well documented
Hun leader named Uldin, who, with his "Hunnish horde", composed of Alanic
and Germanic allies, moved north after 408 at which point there is no
further record of him in the Roman, Greek or Byzantine sources. In the mid 5th
Century the archaeological record shows, for example, a dramatic change
in burial practices in Scandinavia consistent with the arrival of a
Central Asian and Pontine steppe cultural tradition. .. #
David F.
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Cyrus and American Presidents
"Brit-Am Now"- 496
2. Shlomo Scheinman: Notes on Cyrus
kol hator does say that cyrus is under the control of Messiah son of
Yosef.
When we say that cyrus was the son of esther We are basically referring
to darius who had an additional two names, artachshasta and cyrus, This is
based on tractate rosh hashana daf 3 which says that darius - the king after
achashverosh in whose time the second temple was completed after being
started by the first cyrus- was also called cyrus and artachshasta
the name darius in gematria rashi points out in one place in gematria
is 520 just like cyrus.
Harry truman when spelled hey reish yud tet reish vav mem nun also is
520 and also george bush is also 520 in gematria
kol hator says that an equal gematria often shows that they have a
similar divine task to fulfill in the world.
coresh- cyrus is sometimes spelled in the tanakh without a vav and
sometimes with a vav.
Harry truman headed the allies that defeated germany and helped aliya
a cyrus like activity
george bush in his time the soviets fell and the great aliya from
russia to Israel started
George W=vav Bush is fighting the arab world and maybe more good
things will happen in his time
One should also stress that chazal stress that at the end cyrus went
sour after his initial help of the jews and that is somewhat true also of the modern cyruses
shlomo scheinman
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Air-Travel Prophesied by Isaiah in Return of the Tribes. Assyria in Ashkenaz (Germany)? Tarshish and the US Dollar Sign.
Brit-Am Now"- 500
1. Question on Isaiah 27:13
Answer:
"Ashur" means "Assyria".
You are referring to Isaiah 27:13.
"AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY, THAT THE GREAT TRUMPET SHALL BE
BLOWN, AND THEY SHALL COME WHICH WERE READY TO PERISH (Hebrew:
"Ha-Ovdim" also translatable as "they who were lost") IN THE LAND OF ASSYRIA (i.e.
LTTs), AND THE OUTCASTS (i.e. Jewish Captives) IN THE LAND OF EGYPT,
AND SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD IN THE HOLY MOUNT AT JERUSALEM" [Isaiah 27:13].
The verse refers to those who were "lost" (or exiled) to Assyria
meaning the Lost Ten Tribes and also to those who were outcast to the land of
Egypt usually taken as referring to the Jews of Judah.
Just as the Jews of Judah in the Last days will no longer be Outcasts
in Egypt but rather scattered throughout the Diaspora so too will the Ten
Tribes not necessarily still be in Assyria but rather in other countries that they reached as
a result of the Assyrian exile. As far as I know NO commentator ever said
that they would remain in Assyria though one ("Chochmat Shlomo" on Yebamot 17) implies that Assyria
meant the "cities of Ashkenaz" meaning in his terms those of Germany.
[Isaiah 60:8] WHO ARE THESE THAT FLY AS A CLOUD, AND AS THE DOVES TO
THEIR WINDOWS?
The Lost Tribes and Judah will return in aeroplanes flying as a cloud
like pigeons homing in on their homeland.
[Isaiah 60:9] SURELY THE ISLES SHALL WAIT FOR ME, AND THE SHIPS OF
TARSHISH FIRST, TO BRING THY SONS FROM FAR, THEIR SILVER AND THEIR GOLD
WITH THEM, UNTO THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD, AND TO THE HOLY ONE OF
ISRAEL, BECAUSE HE HATH GLORIFIED THEE.
The ships of Tarshish are ships plying the Atlantic Ocean such as
those of North America who will bring the Exiles back.
"Tarshish" can refer to the Atlantic Ocean area and to the USA as
explained in "The Tribes". Historically Tarshish was centered in Spain with
colonies in Gaul and Britain. It was just past the Straits of Gibraltar and so
the name (in Biblical exegesis) came to represent the whole Atlantic Ocean
area and in a future sense North America.
An article from Gunnar Jeremia Gishron of Jerusalem (in our magazine
"BRIT-AM") traces the dollar sign to a coin issued by a Swedish monarch. The
original coin included the name of God in Hebrew and the motto in Swedish "In
God WE Trust"!
Later the Spanish adapted the coin and the USA took it from the
Spanish.
The Spanish version bore the Heraldric sign of the Spanish Royal
family.
This represented the two pillars of Hercules at Gibraltar, i.e. of
Tarshish. These pillars gave rise to the dollar "$" symbol (with two
strokes not one)! The ancient northern Israelites (LTTS) wrote Hebrew
interspersed with Egyptian-like hieroglyphics. Where we to use the
hieroglyphic system today instead of writing "AMERICA" or the USA all
the time we would substitute "$" as a hieroglyph representing the USA. This
one sign ($) could only in the context stand for the USA. This is the sign
of Gibraltar, i.e. the sign of Tarshish. Isaiah (60:9) says that ships of
Tarshish will be the leaders in returning the exiles.
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Edom Returns; Sources
Brit-Am Now"- 500
2. Questions on Cyrus, Good Gentiles, Talmud, Edom, Joseph, etc
From: Shlomo Scheinman
In any case England in my line of thinking should be view as an Edomite
country.
One because of its Christianity. [see (Commentary of) malbim to
ovadia] and two because the midrash compares Edom to the chazir [swine] and in kohelet rabba
chapter 1 it is explained that it is called chazir because in the future it will
restore="lehachazir" [i.e. the word for "swine" or "boar" has the same root
as the word for "return" or "restore] the greatness and the kingdom to its
owner.
England took Palestine away from the ottoman empire and gave it to the
Jews in the balfour declaration. This is my understanding a fulfillment or
partial fulfillment of that midrash concerning Edom. So too Harry
Truman a Cyrus-type leader over a Christian edomite country who played a key
role in getting the United Nations to support the creation of the state of
Israel.
Rabbeinu Bachiya on leviticus/vayikra chapter 11 felt that Edom would
in the future help us rebuild the Third Temple and that the forces in the
past that were harmful to us would return together with other forces to help and
support Israel...
e. Kol Hator explains that a smaller degree of the salvations that we
will see in the full redemption we will see already in the beginning stages of
the redemption.
The salvations come in ever increasing stages and intensity because it
is like a man living in the dark that you want to reintroduce to the
world of light.
If the light is too fast and intense it will blind or hurt the eyes of
the person used to the dark.
By letting the eyes first see dim light that gets stronger and
stronger, you give the eyes the ability to adjust to bright light without harm.
best wishes
shlomo scheinman
Answers:
a. Cyrus belonged to the Pasar-gadae clan whose name MAY mean "Sons of
Gad".
This is a historic possibility that is either correct or not. We do not
build on it.
It may be incorrect. Rashi does not necessarily have to be taken literally
in the above case.
Rashi was a great commentator and everything he said should be treated
with respect and even he does not have to be accepted unquestionably. Other
commentators (including his own grandchildren, the "Tosafot") frequently disagreed with Rashi.
At all events one way or the other it does not make much difference to
us.
b. True. having Friendly feelings towards the Jewish people does not
mean that someone is of Jewish descent
and antagonism towards Jews does not preclude the 'antagonist" from
being Jewish or Israelite themselves.
Nevertheless such feelings are legitimate indications and deserve to be
considered in conjunction with ADDITIONAL evidence.
see 2-Chronicles 28 where even when fighting against each other
"Israel" was expected to remember its brotherly connection to "Judah"
and act accordingly. In the future there will be a reconciliation:
[Isaiah 11:13] THE JEALOUSY OF EPHRAIM SHALL DEPART, AND THOSE WHO
HARASS JUDAH SHALL BE CUT OFF; EPHRAIM SHALL NOT BE JEALOUS OF JUDAH, AND
JUDAH SHALL NOT HARASS EPHRAIM.
d. Esau the brother of Jacob was symbolized by a wild boar or "chazir"
which also means "swine" or "pig".
Descendants of Esau in the Babylonian and Roman forces were
traditionally responsible for destroying both the First and Second Temples:
"THE BOAR OUT OF THE WOOD DOTH WASTE IT" [Psalms 80:13]
A boar was a frequently used symbol amongst Germanic and Celtic
peoples and elements from Esau (in addition to israelite ones) had settled
amongst these groups as explained in our books "The Tribes" and especially "Ephraim".
In Jewish tradition Roman Christianity was identified with Edom (Esau)
since the founders of Rome were said to be descended from Esau and European
civilization in general
had characteristics of Edom.
# There are seventy faces (aspects) to the Torah. #
One explanation does not necessarily nullify another one.
In other words:
Before the First World War "Palestine" was ruled by the Turks. The
Turks were allied to the Germans and Austro-Hungarians.
The Turks in Palestine were directed by German generals and instructors
and Turkish troops in the Artillery Corps and other units were commanded by German officers.
The British and Anzacs (Australians and New Zealanders) conquered
Palestine from the Turks and Germans.
The League of Nations (forerunner of the UN) was set up and at that
time represented mainly Christian nations since most other peoples were ruled or controlled by the "Colonial" powers.
These Christian nations in the League of Nations empowered Britain to
rule Palestine in accordance to the Balfour declaration that called for the establishment in Palestine of a Jewish homeland.
Other Jewish traditions (that you most certainly should be aware of)
say that Joseph and the Lost Ten Tribes and the Messiah son of Joseph will help the Jews return to their land and rebuild the Temple and then later return themselves.
It also says that Edom only falls at the hands of Joseph.
It also indicates (Megilla 6) that "Edom" is Germany and Rome.
In Brit-Am terminology "Joseph" (Britain and co) conquered the Land of
Israel (Palestine) from Edom (Turkey and Germany).
Later the rest of Edom (Christian nations in general) confirmed the rule of Joseph over the land of Canaan it being understand that Joseph would enable the return of Judah (the Jews) to the land of Canaan despite everything Joseph did help Judah lay the foundations of a Jewish State. Along came WW2 in which Rome and Germany [Edom] were defeated by Britain and America [Joseph] and Russia.
The Jewish State came into being and American pressure assured its
acceptance by a majority of nations in the UN.
Joseph forced Edom and the Gentiles to accept the independent existence
of Judah.
Joseph (the USA) still fulfills this role and to the degree that it
continues to do so it is true to its real self.
The Brit-Am explanation is the ONLY ONE that brings ALL the sources together and explains them as a consistent comprehensive whole that is ALSO in tune with our day to day reality.
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Early British Contacts with Carthage
Brit-Am Now"- 500
4. Early British Contacts with Carthage
# In "Current Archaeology" 139, p. 286, Summer 1994, is a letter from
R.D.
Penhallurick of the Royal Cornwall Museum describing three North
African coins found in west Cornwall: one from Numidia, dated 200-100 BC, found
c. 1830 at Carn Brea; a very similar one found at Mount Hawke, 4 1/2 miles
from Carn Brea, in 1981; and one from Carthage, c. 300 BC, found in the
Hayle Estuary in 1953. Whilst these finds in themselves prove little,
and whilst the author expresses caution about the idea of early contacts
with the eastern Mediterranean, he does mention the discovery of a Barbary
ape at Navan [County Meath, near Dublin, Ireland] dated to 200 BC, and also
the Lough Lene [in West Meath, besides a lake in Central Ireland] boat,
which was of Mediterranean construction.
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Athol Bloomer : Spanish Marrano Black Irish
Brit-Am Now"- 500
5. Spanish Marrano Black Irish
From: Athol Bloomer
Subject: Spanish Marrano Black Irish
Some of the families of the Galway Bay area and other places in Western
Irleand were descended from the Marrano sailors and merchants who were
trading there in the 16th century. You can still see the Spanish Arch
at Galway Bay. Youghal in Cork had a Jewish Mayor William Annyas
(Anes/Ennis) of Portuguese Jewish descent in 1555. Some of these families also
settled in the Ring of Kerry. Later families of this origin often confused
their origins with the Spanish sailors from the Armada.This made a much more
colourful origin for their 'Spanish' ancestry than from Marrano sailors
and traders to Galway Bay.
cheers Athol