Comments on: The Ten Lost Tribes http://pursiful.com/2009/10/the-ten-lost-tribes/ Darrell Pursiful's blog Mon, 14 May 2012 13:24:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: mikelioso http://pursiful.com/2009/10/the-ten-lost-tribes/comment-page-1/#comment-1572 mikelioso Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:49:58 +0000 http://pursiful.com/?p=2284#comment-1572 From my reading of what took place in the Assyrian conquest of Israel, it seems that only the rich, the leaders of Israel would have been moved off. Without them, the peasents, the people of the land, who seem to have a quasi-Israelite status would content them selves to feeding themselves. It is the educated elite who conjure up rebellions over heritage and culture and theology. The poor have more pressing worries. And without sympathetic masses to manipulate into millitery service, the deported elites would have a hard time raisng rebellion in the empirial fringes the've been deported to. They would turn their focus to securing a living and thuse do what they do best, organise the lower classes. So after the deportation, their would be lots of people who would feel they are Ephraimites or Danites ect., but no one who could serve as a priest, had or could read the Torah. And nobody who could prove their family heritage to the blue bloods of Judah. From my reading of what took place in the Assyrian conquest of Israel, it seems that only the rich, the leaders of Israel would have been moved off. Without them, the peasents, the people of the land, who seem to have a quasi-Israelite status would content them selves to feeding themselves.

It is the educated elite who conjure up rebellions over heritage and culture and theology. The poor have more pressing worries. And without sympathetic masses to manipulate into millitery service, the deported elites would have a hard time raisng rebellion in the empirial fringes the’ve been deported to. They would turn their focus to securing a living and thuse do what they do best, organise the lower classes. So after the deportation, their would be lots of people who would feel they are Ephraimites or Danites ect., but no one who could serve as a priest, had or could read the Torah. And nobody who could prove their family heritage to the blue bloods of Judah.

]]> By: Darrell Pursiful http://pursiful.com/2009/10/the-ten-lost-tribes/comment-page-1/#comment-1571 Darrell Pursiful Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:34:59 +0000 http://pursiful.com/?p=2284#comment-1571 Did he go on to tell you that Saxon was really short for "Isaac's Son"? (and that you're allowed to drop the "I" because the vowels weren't written in Hebrew?) Did he go on to tell you that Saxon was really short for “Isaac’s Son”? (and that you’re allowed to drop the “I” because the vowels weren’t written in Hebrew?)

]]> By: Brian Small http://pursiful.com/2009/10/the-ten-lost-tribes/comment-page-1/#comment-1570 Brian Small Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:08:51 +0000 http://pursiful.com/?p=2284#comment-1570 In seminary I had a fellow student tell me that British comes from "berit" - covenant, and "ish" - man. Hence "covenant people" - I was not convinced. :-) In seminary I had a fellow student tell me that British comes from “berit” – covenant, and “ish” – man. Hence “covenant people” – I was not convinced. :-)

]]> By: Claude Mariottini http://pursiful.com/2009/10/the-ten-lost-tribes/comment-page-1/#comment-1569 Claude Mariottini Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:04:13 +0000 http://pursiful.com/?p=2284#comment-1569 Darrell, I agree with you. I still do not believe that the British, the Americans, and the Canadians are the lost tribes of Israel. In fact, I don't believe the tribes were lost either. Claude Mariottini Darrell,

I agree with you. I still do not believe that the British, the Americans, and the Canadians are the lost tribes of Israel. In fact, I don’t believe the tribes were lost either.

Claude Mariottini

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