British Israelism lacks consistency with modern genetic findings
Human genetics does not support British Israelism's notion of a close lineal link between Jews and Western Europeans. Genetic research into the Y-chromosomes of Jews has found that Jews are closely related to other populations originating in the Middle East, such as Kurds, Turks, Armenians and Arabs, and concluded that:
Middle Eastern populations...are closely related and...their Y chromosome pool is distinct from that of Europeans. (Nebel, 2001.)
Y-DNA Haplogroups J2 and, to a lesser extent, J1 are most commonly identified in Jewish people, which is in contrast to Western Europeans where a more distant Haplogroup R1b is the most commonly identified.
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Saturday, July 18, 2009
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How do you explain medieval ancestries of kings, and the verse "and the scepter shall not depart from Judah." Odin of Denmark, and Norse Kings such as Thor had a Jewish ancestry through Icelandic ancestry. Charlemagne had a Jewish ancestry through Trojan government. Queen Tea Tephi of Ireland had a Jewish ancestry. Brutus the first king of England had a Jewish ancestry. These "myths" all add up to something, and that is not just that these Kings, but that also the Torah is true.
I don't even try to explain stuff like that because it's just playing with words.
The Jews never wrote anything in the English language (which didn't even exist at the time anyway) but regardless, none of the people you mention have Jewish ancestry.
Odin and Thor are gods, not people.
Those myths are just that, myths.
"Analysis of DNA from modern humans supports other indications that a northward migration of farmers from ancient Turkey and the Middle East"Bruce Bower, Science News, June 24, 1995.
"R1b1b2 is thought to have arrived in central and western Europe around 2300 BCE, by going up the Danube from the Black Sea coast. This correspond to an archeological vacuum in the old Maykop homeland, so the migration must have been on a massive scale, maybe due to pressure from other (R1a) Indo-European people from the north. There might have been several consecutive waves across the Black Sea to the Danube having originated in the middle east some years previously."Eupedia
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