Pure Breed or Pure Non-sense?
Posted on December 31, 2006
Filed Under Genetics, History and Science, Israel (Jacob), Know Thyself, Racism
In the minds of many, there is this misconception that the “Jews” are purely descended from Jacob and Jacob alone.
In reality, the Jews are descended of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi, BUT… they also included an ancient mix of other peoples of uncertain origin. Read the verses below:
Exodus 12:37-38:
37 And the children of Israel set out from Rameses to Sukkoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides the little ones.
38 And a mixed multitude went up with them too, also flocks and herds, very much livestock.
Genetics, yDNA and mtDNA tests, are also proving the Jews consist of more than a single haplogroup (see Contrasting patterns of Y chromosome variation
in Ashkenazi Jewish and host non-Jewish European populations). The Exodus mixed multitude is not the only reason for this. It wasn’t uncommon for people from other ethnic groups to be converted to Judaism, BUT some of these converts were Israelites (Joes) who were cut off and scattered from Israel many hundreds of years earlier by the Assyrians. It can be suggested they were simply being re-grafted into the Olive Tree of Jacob. The Khazarian Kingdom is probably a good case to point out. It was a kingdom that sprang up near the very region Josephus indicated the deported 10 Tribes had grown to be a great multitude.
Because modern Jews don’t perfectly fall into a single haplogroup, some anti-Semites will argue this evidence as proof the “Jews” are fake or impostors. Well those accusations beg the question: is there any ethnic group in the world completely pure and unspotted by the DNA of another people group? Even Native American populations, largely falling into the Q3 Haplogroup, aren’t completely and purely Q.
Let it be understood: the Jews aren’t fake, but they aren’t a pure-breed either. And the notion that they should be pure is pure non-sense. Israel was called to be a “light to the nations” and thus other peoples were drawn to their Light. For example, it was that “light” that drew Ruth into the camp of Israel.
FYI, Ruth was a non-Israelite (Moabite), great, great, grandmother of King David (a Jew of the tribe of Jew-dah).
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Did you see the movie Borat?
No I haven’t. Why do you ask?
The leading actor…oh, nevermind. Read Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borat