“It is interesting that the Puritans regarded the Indians as a lost tribe of Israel, the Quakers saw them as Children of Light, the borderers regarded them as rival warriors, and royalist gentlemen such as John Gibbon saw them as natural aristocrats with an inborn taste for heraldry.”
-Footnote, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America, David Hackett Fischer
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I can’t type for the BLINDNESS caused by the EYES WEDGED TO THE BACK OF MY SKULL.
I will immediately plan my pilgrimage to Israel to find my long-lost brethren.
OH MY GOD – I’m JEWISH!!!!
Trasherati: OH MY GOD – You’re JEWISH!!!!
They’re from Israel, right? Oy, I can’t keep all this religious stuff straight. Perhaps I should just go back to being a Child of the Light.
You two are so meshuggah! Oy!
Trasherati: You did NOT just ask if the Jews are from Israel. Did you? No. You didn’t. You couldn’t have.
Yes, I did. And I had to go to Wikipedia to find the following:
Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדִי×, Yehudim; Ladino ג׳ודיוס, Djudios; Yiddish: ייִדן, Yidn)[1] are members of the Jewish people, an ethnic group originating in the Israelites of the ancient Middle East and others who converted to Judaism throughout the millennia. The ethnicity and the religion of Judaism are strongly interrelated, and converts are both included and have been absorbed within the Jewish people.
The Jews have suffered a long history of persecution in very many different lands, and their population and distribution per region has fluctuated throughout the centuries. Today, most authorities place the number of known Jewish people between 12 and 14 million,[2] the largest number of whom live in the United States (40.5% in 2002) and Israel (34.4% in 2002), with the remainder distributed in communities of varying sizes in almost every country. The total world Jewish population, however, is difficult to measure and is subject to the controversy of secular, halakhic or other parameters of defining who it is that is considered to be Jewish.
I’m very open about my ignorance.
Also, did you know that Israel means “Upright with God”? Which just drips with street cred, doesn’t it?
“Erreybody in the club get ISRAEL!”
“Yo, man, you Israel?”
Trasherati: Upright with God? That’s outta sight and Dy-no-mite!
You joke about this, but it has much validity. I am pretty sure the lost tribe of Israel IS the Native American people. It is a little known fact that while they were sometimes referred to as “the red man” they were better known as the Orange Jews.
Ogre: Oh no you didn’t!
Yep.