Ten Tribes Studies (7 October, 2013, Cheshvan 3, 5774)
Contents:
1. New Article. Syria and its Neighbors no.2
2. Anyone Seen this Book? [Scottish Enlightenment],
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It by Arthur Herman.
(a) Amazon Review
(b) Wikipedia Summary. How the Scots Invented the Modern World
(c) Critical Reservations. The Flowers of Scotland. Cinderella Nation by Irvine Welsh
3. Comments on YouTube Clips
(a) Ginette from French Canada and Benjamin
(b) Criticism of Black Hebrew Israelites
4. New Article and YouTube Clip. The Blessings to Joseph Re-Translated!
(a) New Article. God is the Shepherd of Israel.
The Blessings of Jacob to Joseph Re-examined. Genesis 49:22-26 Retranslated
(b) YouTube Clip. The Blessings to Joseph Re-Translated!
5. Should Brit-Am/Hebrew Nations Have its own Women Section?
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1. New Article. Syria and its Neighbors no.2
http://britam.org/syria2.html
Contents:
11. Independent Syria: The Early years
12. Israelite Tribes and their Claim to Syria: Reuben
13. The Land of Eastern Israel and Syria before the Exile according to the Geography of Ptolemy
14. Two Places in the Bible known as Damascus?
15. The Jews of Syria
(a) Overall Picture. Wikipedia Extracts
(b) Aleppo Codex
(c) Attitudes to conversion
(d) Descendants of David amongst Syrian Jews, the Dayan Family
4. New Article. God is the Shepherd of Israel.
The Blessings of Jacob to Joseph Re-examined.
5. Should Brit-Am/Hebrew Nations Have its own Women Section?
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2. Anyone Seen this Book? Scottish Enlightenment,
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It
by Arthur Herman
http://www.amazon.com/How-Scots-Invented-Modern-World/dp/0609809997
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(a) Amazon Review
Extract:
Who formed the first modern nation?
Who created the first literate society?
Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism?
The Scots.
Mention of Scotland and the Scots usually conjures up images of kilts, bagpipes, Scotch whisky, and golf. But as historian and author Arthur Herman demonstrates, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland earned the respect of the rest of the world for its crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics, contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since.
Arthur Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. He lucidly summarizes the ideas, discoveries, and achievements that made this small country facing on the North Atlantic an inspiration and driving force in world history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and the Church of Scotland laid the foundation for our modern idea of democracy; how the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution; and how thousands of Scottish immigrants left their homes to create the American frontier, the Australian outback, and the British Empire in India and Hong Kong.
How the Scots Invented the Modern World reveals how Scottish genius for creating the basic ideas and institutions of modern life stamped the lives of a series of remarkable historical figures, from James Watt and Adam Smith to Andrew Carnegie and Arthur Conan Doyle, and how Scottish heroes continue to inspire our contemporary culture, from William 'Braveheart' Wallace to James Bond.
Victorian historian John Anthony Froude once proclaimed, 'No people so few in number have scored so deep a mark in the world's history as the Scots have done.' And no one who has taken this incredible historical trek, from the Highland glens and the factories and slums of Glasgow to the California Gold Rush and the search for the source of the Nile, will ever view Scotland and the Scots, or the modern West, in the same way again. For this is a story not just about Scotland: it is an exciting account of the origins of the modern world and its consequences.
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(b) Wikipedia Summary
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Scots_Invented_the_Modern_World
Extracts:
The book is divided into two parts. ....John Knox brought Calvinist Presbyterianism to Scotland. He preached that God ordained power into the people and that it was for the people to administer and enforce God's laws, not the monarchy. For common people to understand God's laws they had to be able to read the Bible so schools were built in every parish and literacy rates grew rapidly, creating a Scottish-oriented market for books and writers.
...the English and Scots joined in 1707 to form the Kingdom of Great Britain... The Scots immediately benefited from a centralised government that paid little attention to it, for example, inexpensive imports reduced the impacts of famines and allowed a Scottish culture to flourish....
The defeat of the 1745 Jacobite rising decimated the antiquated social structure based around clans lorded over by chieftains; this liberalized the Scottish way of life by allowing citizens to own land and keep the profits instead of giving all profits to the chieftains who owned all the land. Their literate foundation allowed the Scots to become economically literate and take advantage of trade. Edinburgh and Glasgow became epicenters of intellectual thought. There existed in Scotland a clergy who believed that a moral and religious foundation was required for, and compatible with, a free and open sophisticated culture moderated hardline conservatives. ...
... Most Scots immigrants in the American colonies sympathised with the British during the American Revolutionary War but those who did fight in the militias were the most capable because many were the same refugee families from the 1745 Jacobite rising. Herman claims that the Scottish School of Common Sense influenced much of the American declaration of independence and constitution.... Scots in India, like James Mill, led the British idea of liberal imperialism, that they had to take over indigenous cultures and run their society for their own good, or "the white man's burden".... James Watt's steam engine "gave capitalism its modern face, which has persisted down to today".... it was Scots who rectified negative impacts industry had, i.e. public health movement.
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(c) Critical Reservations
For a critical review expressing serious reservations about this work see:
="What did the Cinderella nation do for the modern world? Everything, discovers Irvine Welsh
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/jan/19/highereducation.historybooks1
Voltaire agreed, contending, "It is to Scotland that we must look for our idea of civilisation." ... The diaspora may have enriched western cultural society by enabling Scotland to export its institutions, beliefs and character. However, this came at the cost of great suffering which, in keeping with this perspective and Scottish Enlightenment philosophy, is justified in the name of progress. ... The Highland clearances are a shameful element of Scotland's history, and can't be glossed over in this manner. ... in his enthusiasm for all things Scottish, the author ignores the more overtly malign elements of the exported culture. ...The bad bits - racism, slavery, religious indoctrination - were down to others (the English). ...ignoring the compelling evidence of the Scots' darker role in the slave trade ....the Scottish role in slavery and racism, particularly in the formation and development of the Ku Klux Klan, which was formed by defeated Scots Confederate officers in the south. The "order of the horse" oath ceremony recited by Klan members came straight from Highland custom, as did that ancient Scottish symbol, the burning cross. ...Scotsmen Matheson and Jardine are described as "the only two men who saw the potential of the opium market in China and had the skill and enthusiasm to do anything about it". ...this vaunted duo are either nefarious drug barons or our current drug laws are still in the early 19th century. ... Ulster Scots, a tribe dealt a rough hand by history, are accorded just status in the making of modern America and are solely credited with the creation of the frontier mentality. The legendary contrariness of Scots raises its head here; in this conflict the Ulster Scots, a group embedded in our consciousness as arch-unionists, were the rebels, while British loyalists included in their ranks many Highlanders who had fought with Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobites against the Hanoverian crown. ...Professor Herman has written a 400-page love letter to a Cinderella nation.
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3. Comments on YouTube Clips
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(a) Ginette from French Canada and Benjamin
Ginette Flatow has made a comment on Are you from Benjamin? BennyA Queries.
I am Canadian, but French Canadian, a descendant of the Normans, I think we are descended from the tribe of Benjamin?
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(b) Criticism of Black Hebrew Israelites
youngoldbones has replied to your comment on The Celts Called Themselves Hebrews!
Black Hebrew Israelites. They stand on street corners and call all white people including Jewish people "The Devil" and "Essau" They go about saying that the people who identify themselves as Jews in the U.S. Israel and elsewhere are impostors, They are very deluded people, and they enjoy their delusions because through them they can exercise their racist hate against Caucasian peoples.
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4. New Article and YouTube Clip. The Blessings to Joseph Re-Translated!
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(a) New Article.
God is the Shepherd of Israel.
The Blessings of Jacob to Joseph Re-examined. Genesis 49:22-26 Retranslated
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/biblical-proof/joseph/shep.html
Extract:
Let us put our new version together, modify it slightly, and see how it looks:
Genesis 49:
22 Joseph is a son of fertility and power, a potent son under the Eye [of Divine Providence] ; the daughters marched as one for the sake of the bull.
23 And there were those who were embittered against him, and quarrelled, and the owners of missiles hated him.
24 And he settled in the strength of his bow and the seed of his arms spread outwards. This was from the hand of the Great Bull of Jacob. From there came the shepherd of the doing of equitable justice in Israel.
25 [This was] From the God of your father; and HE will help you. And the Almighty. And HE will bless you. Blessings of the Heavens above; blessings of the Chasm lying underneath. Blessings of breasts and womb.
26 The blessing of your father are greater than the blessings of my forebears. They reach the boundaries of the hills of this world. Be you at the head, Joseph. And the Supreme Commander, Crown [Nazir] of his brothers [and separated from them].
In these verses we find references to the various blessings of Joseph and the Ten Tribes which we have already deduced from other sources;
Great numerical increase; political and military power; numerous adversaries and the senseless hatred of other nations towards him; the importance of women occasionally taking the initiative for the sake of the Tribal Nations; self-reliance; overcoming adversity and adversaries; the doing of justice and recognizing the basic equality of all Israelites and the underlying dignity of all men; the palpable assistance of Divine Providence; Blessings of climate and of the earth; mineral wealth and riches from under the earth; the blessings of Joseph to be vastly greater than those of the other Tribes who nevertheless will also be greatly blessed; the supremacy in blessing of Joseph; Joseph being set apart from the other tribes.
We also see in these blessings the implied unravelling of hidden potential with the inner soul of Hidden Promises evolving outwards. It was not something that would happen all at once but rather would develop and follow lines of historical progress. This is what happened. These are the blessings.
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(b) YouTube Clip.
The Blessings to Joseph Re-Translated!
Duration:Â 20.38 minutes
A re-examination of the Blessings to Joseph in the Hebrew Bible reveals significant differences from how conventional Bible Translations render them. The Great Seal of the USA (depicted on the dollar bill) was indicated in these blessings!
See: God is the Shepherd of Israel.
The Blessings of Jacob to Joseph Re-examined. Genesis 49:22-26 Retranslated
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/biblical-proof/joseph/shep.html
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5. Should Brit-Am/Hebrew Nations Have its own Women Section?
Women always have been important amongst Israelites. Sarah, Rebeccah, Rachel play a very prominent roles in the Biblical Account. We also had Miriam, Rahab, Deborah, Yael, Ruth, Esther, Hulda the Prophetess, and others. In the Tribe of Joseph we had the daughters of Zelophehah who asserted their heritable rights and had their claims confirmed by God Himself!
In our article,
The Blessings of Jacob to Joseph Re-examined. Genesis 49:22-26 Retranslated
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/biblical-proof/joseph/shep.html
We pointed out that in the verse,
[Genesis 49:22] JOSEPH IS A FRUITFUL BOUGH, EVEN A FRUITFUL BOUGH BY A WELL; WHOSE BRANCHES RUN OVER THE WALL:
the words,
WHOSE BRANCHES RUN OVER THE WALL:
may alternatively be rendered from the Hebrew as,
"the daughters marched as one towards [for the sake of] the bull"
The bull here represents Joseph or Ephraim the son of Joseph.
This interpretation may indicate the important role the women of Ephraim (whose symbol is the bull) will play in the end-time.
Genesis 49:22
Joseph is a son of fertility and power, a potent son under the Eye [of Divine Providence] ; the daughters marched as one for the sake of the bull.
At the moment we do not seem to be doing that well with both men and women together, let alone with women alone, but who knows?
YouTube statistics say that about 70% of the viewers of our video clips are males. Similar numbers probably pertain for our other features.
With us females are in the minority but they are qualitatively important.
Our first web-site (www.britam.org) was first set up by a woman, Betty Rhodes. So too, Sharon Lindstrom, INITIATED the Hebrew Nations Facebook Page. Charlene Mathe (wife of Steve Mathe) has helped us a lot and so have other women who might prefer not to be mentioned. Women have and still are very important. If it was not for the help of women here and there we would have stagnated long ago.
Perhaps we should encourage them more?
Women bear children. They carry on the heritage. They should be at least as much concerned with Israelite Heredity as the men are.
What do the women think?
Are there any ladies out there who feel they can take up the challenge?