Ten Tribes Studies (24 April, 2013, Iyar 14, 5773)
Contents:
1. Question on Descendants of David amongst Western Monarchs and DNA Evidence for West Europeans in General.
2. Query Concerning Zedekiah's Daughters.
3. Query about Tea Tephi Records
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1. Question on Descendants of David amongst Western Monarchs and DNA Evidence for West Europeans in General.
Monte Benson wrote:
Yair,
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How, do you believe, did the throne of David arrive in Europe? Also, do you have information on genetic evidence that the Ten Lost Tribes ended up in western Europe?
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Monte
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Reply: You asked two questions:
 (1) Concerning the Descendants of David as Rulers amongst the Ten Tribes.
We tend not to put much emphasis on this point but it is counted as one of our Biblical Proofs, see:
Sons of David
Descendants of David were to be Among the Rulers of Israel
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/biblical-proof/attributes/roledavid.html
 The Sons of David had once been appointed as administrators over all Israel (2-Samuel 8;18). Later members of the House of David had intermarried with leaders of the Northern Kingdom and passed over to live in those areas. In this and other ways descendants of David must have penetrated the ranks of the exiled Israelites.
An Aramaic inscription mentions a "House of David" somehow in connection with Dan in the Galilee. There was a Judaean entity known as Yadi in southeast Turkey which was attached to Judah in the south...
 Part of the Lost Ten Tribes became known as the Sakae or Scythians. ...The Khazars, who were also basically a Scythian group, had a ruling house named after Jesse the father of David. The ruling houses (of David) of the Sakae-Scythians in Sakastan and Scythia were interrelated and had familial connections with the monarchs of the Guti (Goths) and Parthians and they with each other. From these monarchic and aristocratic lines came the early kings of Scandinavia, of the Franks, and of the Anglo-Saxons.
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(2) Genetic Proof. There is none and there is plenty. It depends how one reads the evidence. We are working on it from time to time. I personally am tending to more and more expect an announcement that environmental influence is now admitted to be a prime factor in determining DNA.
Anyway, for what it is worth most of the mtDNA female haplogroups in Western Europe come from the Middle East.
The two main West European male YHaplogroups are R1b and I. It is now admitted that R1b probably originated in the Middle East area and came to Europe at a late date, i.e. at the Bronze Age or later.
As for I, it is supposed to be older but apart from that is virtually a clone of J which is Middle Eastern and found amongst many Arabs and Jews.
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2. Query Concerning Zedekiah's Daughters.
Candace Reagan wrote:
Hello Yair!
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You mentioned you have doubts about Tea Tephi.... Do you have info on Zedekiah's daughters? Names and where they went etc?
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Candace
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No. Maybe Tea Tephi really was one of them? This however needs more research. See other entries in this posting.
Yair
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3. Query about Tea Tephi Records
Stephen Phillips wrote:
It is strange that the mention of Teia Tephi has cropped up now as I am currently trying to make sense of the information myself. The story is based on a book written by John A Goodchild in 1887. A copy can be downloaded from http://archive.org/details/cu31924013458819. I have only just downloaded so have not yet had a chance to fully review. Despite all the rhetoric and disputation, Goodchild seems to have based his work on actual Irish records; whether still extant is another matter. The fact is that the city of Carteia in southern Spain mentioned by Strabo (3.1.7) means literally the City of Teia. (Our beloved academics would have us believe that Carteia is from the Phoenician keret meaning city. Keret, which in Hebrew is Kiriath, is a prefix meaning city of. The word Car or Kar appears in the front of many place names, especially Brittany and England. We are told that the word Car/Caer/Cathair means fort.)
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Brit-Am Reply:
The work by Goodchild looks like a forgery or perhaps historical fiction.
The summary given in Wikipedia sums the matter up well.
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Tea Tephi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_kings_of_Britain#Tea_Tephi
Tea Tephi is a legendary princess found described in British Israelite literature from the 19th century.[34][35] Revd F. R. A. Glover, M.A., of London in 1861 published England, the Remnant of Judah, and the Israel of Ephraim in which he claimed Tea Tephi was one of Zedekiah's daughters. Since King Zedekiah of Judah had all his sons killed during the Babylonian Captivity no male successors could continue the throne of King David, but as Glover noted Zedekiah had daughters who escaped death (Jeremiah 43: 6). Glover believed that Tea Tephi was a surviving Judahite princess who had escaped and traveled to Ireland, and who married a local High King of Ireland in the 6th century BC who subsequently became blood linked to the British Monarchy.[36] This theory was later expanded upon by Rev. A.B. Grimaldi who published in 1877 a successful chart entitled Pedigree of Queen Victoria from the Bible Kings and later by W.M.H. Milner in his booklet The Royal House of Britain an Enduring Dynasty' (1902, revised 1909). Charles Fox Parham also authored an article tracing Queen Victoria's linage back to King David (through Tea Tephi) entitled Queen Victoria: Heir to King David's Royal Throne.[37]
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The Tea Tephi British-monarchy link is also found in J. H. Allen's Judah's Sceptre and Joseph's Birthright (1902, p. 251). A central tenet of British Israelism is that the British monarchy is from the Davidic line and the legend of Tea Tephi from the 19th century attempted to legitimise this claim. Tea Tephi however has never been traced to an extant Irish source before the 19th century and critics assert she was purely a British Israelite invention.[38] A collection of alleged bardic traditions and Irish manuscripts which detail Tea Tephi were published by J. A. Goodchild in 1897 as The Book of Tephi, the work is however considered pseudo-historical or a forgery. There is though a queen called Tea (singular) in Irish mythology who appears in the Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland.[39] She is described as the wife of Erimon a Mil Espaine (Milesian) and dated to 1700 BC (Geoffrey Keating: 1287 BC). These dates are inconsistent with the British Israelite literature which date Tea Tephi to the 6th century BC, but later British Israelites such as Herman Hoeh (Compendium of World History, 1970) claimed that the Milesian Royal House (including Tea) was from an earlier blood descendant of the Davidic Line who entered Britain around 1000 BC (citing Ruaidhr O ' Flaithbheartaigh's reduced chronology).[40] Linked to Glover's original claims of Tea Tephi, are Grimaldi and Milner's theory that Jeremiah himself in the company of his scribe Baruch ben Neriah traveled to Ireland with Tea Tephi and that they are found described in Irish folklore and old Irish manuscripts. Some British Israelites identify Baruch ben Neriah with a figure called Simon Berac or Berak in Irish myth, while Jeremiah with Ollom Fotla (or Ollam, Ollamh Fodhla).[41] However like Tea Tephi there has long been controversy about these identifications, mainly because of conflicting or inconsistent dates. In 2001, the British-Israel-World Federation wrote an article claiming they no longer subscribed to these two identifications, but still strongly stick to the belief that the British monarchy is of Judahite origin.[42][43] In an earlier publication Covenant Publishing Co. in 1982 admitted that Tea Tephi could not be traced in Irish literature or myth and may have been fabricated by Revd F. R. A. Glover, however they clarified they still believed in the Milesian Royal House Davidic Line bloodline connection (popularised by Hoeh).[44] Herbert Armstrong (1986) also took up this legendary connection.[45] Nonetheless there are still proponents of the Tea-Tephi legend first tracable to Glover.[46]
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