Alice C. Linsley
A DNA study that compared the genetic makeup of Jewish populations from around the world with African populations has found that modern Jews can attribute about 3 to 5 percent of their ancestry to sub-Saharan Africans. Researchers from the Harvard Medical School estimate that the exchange of genes occurred approximately 72 generations ago (or about 2,000 years). Lawrence Schiffman, professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies at Yeshiva University, believes the intermixing may have occurred during the Hellenistic period (c. 320–30 B.C.E.), when Jewish communities were resident in many North African coastal cities, or during the First Temple period (c. 950–600 B.C.E.) (Read more here:
DNA Suggests Early Jewish Links with Africa - Biblical Archaeology Society)
Dr. Harry Ostrer, director of the human genetics program at the New York University School of Medicine, led a study that compared the genetic makeup of Jewish populations from around the world with African populations. Ostrer found that modern Jewish populations have "African" ancestry. Of course, the term "African" lacks definition. Some Jews have married African Jews. Jews who have preserved ethnic purity where possible will have inherited genetic material from the early Hebrew who were mainly a Nilotic population.
David Reich, associate professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and his colleagues decided to explore further and found that modern Jews can attribute about 3 to 5 percent of their ancestry to sub-Saharan Africans.
Lawrence Schiffman, professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies at Yeshiva University, believes the intermixing may have occurred during the Hellenistic period (c. 320–30 BC), when Jewish communities were resident in many North African coastal cities, or during the First Temple period (c. 950–600 BC), when the Israelite kings, including Solomon, had trade relationships with Africa. (Read more
here.)
The Hebrew dispersed widely before Judaism
Before Abraham's time (c. 2000 BC), the Hebrew ruler-priest caste had already dispersed widely. Noah established his territory in the region of Lake Chad. The words Borno and Benue mean "Land of Noah". The local Kanari people refer to Lake Chad as Buhar Nuhu, meaning "Sea of Noah".
Some
descendants of Cain, the Kenites, lived in the land of Canaan in the time of King David. Some descendants of the Hebrew ruler Het (Gen. 10) also lived in Canaan in the time of Abraham. They are identified in Genesis 23 as Hittites.
There is considerable archaeological, anthropological, and linguistic evidence that Jews who have preserved their ethnicity by marrying only Jews from the ruler priest lineages are descendants of the early
Hebrew ruler-priest caste. That caste was organized into 2 ritual groups (moieties): the Horites and the Sethites. The earliest known site of Horite Hebrew worship is at
Nekhen on the Nile.
The language of Abraham in Mesopotamia was Akkadian, the oldest known Semitic language. It appears to be a linguistic bridge between some of the older Afroasiatic languages and the Indo-European languages.
The Indian scholar Malati J. Shendge has concluded that the language of the Harappans of the Indus Valley was Akkadian. The Indian linguist Ajay Pratap Singh explains, "Comparisons of Akkadian and Sanskrit words yielded at least 400 words in both languages with comparable phonetic and semantic similarities. Thus Sanskrit has, in fact, descended from Akkadian."
There have been multiple movements of people out of Africa as has been confirmed by various studies. One study indicates that the ancestral population of India separated from sub-Saharan African populations only around 54,000 years ago. (
Deep history from the genomes of India - John Hawks)
Whats is your view on the Igbo Hebrews. Ouidah being referred to as Kingdom if Juda on 1700s maps with Desert of Seth being to the right of the slave coast.Also a Kingdom of Adom in West Africa. Have you look at sone of the 15-1700s West African Maps. King Jebus of Numidia and etc. Sorry for the rambling. Thanks for this info.
ReplyDeleteAbraham's ancestors came out of Africa. Hebrew is an African language. See this:
ReplyDeletehttp://jandyongenesis.blogspot.com/2013/01/is-hebrew-african-language.html
The earliest named of Abraham's ancestors lived in the region of Nigeria, Niger, and Chad. This area of Africa was much wetter, with the major waters systems of the Benue Trough and lakes connecting to a wider Nile. These are generally called his "Proto-Saharan" ancestors. Later, the Nile became the focus of river trade and was ruled by the Kushites. Abraham was a descendant of the Kushite ruler Nimrod whose territory was in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley. That is why we first meet Abraham in Mesopotamia, although his people came out of Africa.
The Kushites included many different clans and peoples such as the Nilotic Ainu, the Ijebu, red and black Nubians, etc.
The Igbo today are probably descendants of the Proto-Saharans and Bantu, with some mix of Nilotic among the rulers. I doubt that they are direct descendants of Jacob who was the first called "Israel." Igbo history is traced back to a time before there a people called Israelite existed.
The Igbo may be related to the Nok civilization. The Yoruba word "anochi" (Nok/ha-nock/Enoch) refers to the succession of rulers. In the Hebrew Bible, the word is Enoch, a royal title which means the one who is to ascend or rule. Jacob's firstborn son was Reuben, and Reuben's firstborn son was designated Ha-Nock.
According to Yoruba oral tradition, Esu/Esau the Edomite/Idu was the third king of Ketu. The kingdom of Ketu is in the Republic of Benin. Abraham's cousin wife was Ketu-ra. The Jebusites (Ijebu), who controlled Jerusalem in Abraham's time, were divided into two groups and one is called Ketu. Edomite is a variant of Edo/Idu. Obodas, the first ruler of Petra, has a name related to the Edo word for ruler which is Oba.
Linguist Helene Longpre recognizes that Demotic Egyptian (7th-5th c. B.C.) and Nabatean Aramaic most closely correspond to Meroitic or Old Nubian. (Longpre, "Investigation of the Ancient Meroitic Writing System", Rhode Island College, 1999.) Demotic is the script of the Rosetta stone in the Ptolemaic period (332-30 B.C.).