Showing posts with label Antiquities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antiquities. Show all posts

Friday, July 10, 2020

Hebrew-Greek Shared Lineage

To start off, I want to share a Biblical passage from the Old Testament. 

“King Arius of the Spartans to Onias the high priest, greetings. It has been put in writing regarding both the Spartans and the Jews that they are brothers, and are both of the family of Abraham" - 1 Maccabees 12:20-22


And here is a nice aesthetic image to go along with this 

This letter is also mentioned in Josephus' "Antiquities" 12.4.10

However, it is not only this one instance that shows the connection between the two peoples. As it is found in Diodorus Siculus' "Library of Histories" 40.3. There one can see that not all Israelites (or Hebrews if that term might be more fitting) went to the Holy Land with Moses, but some went to Greece. 

"All the foreigners [Israelites] were forthwith expelled, and the most valiant and noble among them, under some notable leaders, were brought to Greece and other places, as some relate; the most famous of their leaders were Danaus and Cadmus."







Danaus, founder of Argos 





Cadmus, founder of Thebes








I believe this is important historical information, in an age where many very comfortably accept the lie that the Jews of today are God's chosen people. The rabbit hole of European history goes very deep, and God's providence can be witnessed playing out. 

Saturday, February 22, 2020

The genetic and spiritual lineage of the "Jews" of today

In this article I wish to further help dismantle the idea that the "Jews" of today are what they claim to be. This was originally posted in the form of a thread on Twitter in response to this tweet.

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.



The 12 tribes of Israel spring from Jacob, Esau's twin, who was himself renamed Israel. Here thus occurs a split between the 12 tribes and the Idumeans.

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.