Josephus and Strabo prove that original Jews intermingled with a people that they conquered: the "Idumeans".
So who are the Idumeans?
They came from Edom. Their founder was Esau, who is mentioned in the OT as son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham.
In Genesis 28 (verse 8 in particular) Esau does not obey his father's command to not marry a Canaanite (Canaanites were cursed by God, as seen in Genesis 9). Whether or not you believe that Canaanites were black is not that relevant to this, but it would help explain the modern Jews' feature of curly black hair. Perhaps the curse of Canaan was similar in nature to the curse of Cain, because in his commentary of John 8:44 St. Cyril explains that Cain was the father of the Jews. After the flood such a thing could not be physically possible, but in a sense could be spiritually possible through Canaan.
As such, the Idumeans were a mixed people, physically and spiritually. After their conquest by the Judaeans as related above they mixed with Judaeans to create a race of people that was spiritually tainted and genetically mixed. This conquest and mixing, as far as I can tell, took place between the 1st and 2nd centuries B.C. The tribes of Israel, 10 out of the 13, were exiled in 722 B.C., hundred of years before this mixing took place. As such, the "Jews" of today can not lay claim to either the lost tribes or to the Judaeans which were not exiled. The "jews" of today are a race of mixed people. They're not really Jews, as in, descendants of Judah, son of Jacob, but rather a race that mixed with the Jews.
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