Ten Tribes Studies (11 June, 2014, 13 Sivan, 5774)
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Contents:
1. New Article. Family and Tribe
Observations on Research, Marriage, and Genealogy by Peter C. Patton, Ph.D.
2. Douglas Augustine. The Brit-Am Need for a Sponsor?
3. Brian: Latin America is also called Iber-America!
4. What Language did the Khazars speak?
5. It Runs in the Family
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1. New Article. Family and Tribe
Observations on Research, Marriage, and Genealogy by Peter C. Patton, Ph.D.
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/guest/patton.html
Extracts:
.... All scholarship is a bit like mathematics. Many great theorems have two names attached to them, the name of the person who thought of the theorem but could not prove it, and the name of the person who proved it but would never have thought of it. Analysis is excellent but it must somehow follow synthesis, or at least observation.
On page 494-5 of the Tribes you point out that the tribes tend to stay together and mention forces like people living in social and religious communities for most of human history. The drivers of human development are surely nature and nurture and you do mention the genetic component of social cohesiveness. ... So, when we sent our two daughters off to colleges a thousand miles away we didn't know what to expect. One married a Pope (Clan Ross) and the other a Wright (Clan MacLaren). I have been a college teacher for the past 57 years and I have often seen this same 'genetic' selection happen within other ethnic groups.
Peter C. Patton, Formerly professor and director of the center for Ancient Studies at the University of Minnesota. Now teaching ANE, Bible, and Classical Literature at Oklahoma Christian University.
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2. Douglas Augustine. The Brit-Am Need for a Sponsor?
Dear Mr. Davidiy:
Thank you for all of the wonderful work you have dedicated yourself to for so many years. ... As I alluded in a previous message, how nice it would be if a wealthy person came to understand the value of your work and eliminated the concern for money so that you could concentrate exclusively on the project with facilities and manpower suited to the immensity of the task at hand. A unified Israel would be good for both the descendants of Israel and a blessing for the world at large. That day cannot come soon enough, but it won't happen unless work like yours takes place.
Sincere warm regards,
Douglas Augustine
Tokyo
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3. Brian: Latin America is also called Iber-America!
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The Celts as Israelites. Ancient Peoples of the West Called Themselves Hebrews.
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/biblical-proof/attributes/hebrewcelts.html
Hi Yair,
It may be of passing interest to readers that also Latin America is also called Iber-America due to the Spanish and Portuguese taking it as colonies for themselves, transferring the title from Iber/Ibderean Peninsular to the new world.
Shalom brother,
Brian
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4. What Language did the Khazars speak?
What language did they speak in Khazaria when they converted to Judaism beginning 800s and became the worlds largest Jewish state.
Were the Khazars Turkish?
Reply:
The Khazars in Central Asia may have spoken a Turkish dialect as did some white "Nordic" peoples, some "Turkish" peoples and some "Mongolians".
It is not even certain however what language the Khazars really did speak since all we have are a few "Runes" that appear like a Central Asian Turkish-related dialect and MAY belong to the Khazars. At one stage the Turks did rule for a period over the Khazars and they did dominate the region of Southern Russia. So some influence was to be expected.
 This does not say much and even this is uncertain. Some of the Khazars are believed to have spoken a Finnish-type language. Avraham Polak ("Kuzaria", Hebrew) believed their original tongue was a Gothic dialect. We think they originally spoke Hebrew.
The Khazars were reported of in southern Russia long before the Turks were ever heard of.
A letter from King Joseph of Khazaria relates the Khazars to Togarmah (son of Gomer son of Noah) who is believed to have been the ancestor of the Turks.
The letter from King Joseph is in several versions. It has been doctored. The segment relating them to Togarmah appears from its style to be an interpolation.
The Ruling House of the Khazars (according to a Persian source) was known as Ansa.
The ruling house of the Turks was the Asena. It is has been proposed that Ansa and Asina are the same. They may be. We do not know.
More evidence is required.
The Ruling House of the Khazars was known as Ansa in Arabic and in another Arabic source as Ayishai. Both these forms Ansa and Ayishai are considered the equivalent as the Hebrew "Yishai" i.e. Jesse. The House of Jesse i.e. the House of David.
Most contemporary Jewish sources relate the Khazars to Israel. Sources that relate them to Togarmah are mainly later ones and less reliable. Those who knew them at first hand considered them Israelite.
Abraham Polak believed the Khazars were Goths.
Vladimir Pomakov said they were Scythians and Slavs descended from the ancient Cimmerians and Massagetae.
There is little evidence of Turkish input. All that there was can easily be explained by cultural contact.
The Khazars themselves said they were of Israelite descent.
The evidence shows that the Khazars should be believed.
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5. It Runs in the Family
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Ancestors and Heredity
Your Forefathers and You. How Important is Heredity? Extract from a Rabbinical Source
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/rabbi/heredity.html
Quote:
Accordingly, just as the son is bequeathed material acquisitions from his father, so shall he inherit spiritual assets. It follows that in the general account of Creation, God adds the reckoning of the fathers to their sons and that of the sons to their fathers...
... This is a depth of grace and truth from God - To enable people to repair what they have blemished, and even to raise them up, and bring all mankind to the desired perfect goal for which the world and man were created.....