28 May 2024
On the one hand, it doesn't matter much who today's Jews are in human terms; what matters is what they do and why. They remain Satan's favorite special nation. We cannot hope to change the threat, only respond appropriately. On the other hand, if you are going to understand what they are doing, it helps to get a clear view of how they got where they are today.
Ron Unz provides a fairly objective survey of the evidence identifying the human source of today's Jews. It is not definitive, but highly probable, the best we have for now.
I will suggest that the one weakness is his contention that the first century Judeans were just agricultural peasants. That's true of the majority, but it's not true of the ruling class who built Judaism as a religion and culture, particularly the priesthood. Those were already savvy materialistic merchants and pretty much the kind of people we now recognize as Jews today. I would expect Unz to get this wrong because he doesn't take seriously the biblical evidence.
But rather than disproving his point, it allows for a stronger affinity between the Phoenicians/Carthaginians and their Judean cousins. It's makes it even more likely they merged, providing the bulk of the nation today. You need not take seriously any reference to Khazarians; don't echo that claim.
However, nobody can claim to have identified a solid genetic profile of historical Hebrew people. The Bible itself reveals that they were more mixed than today's Jews would like to admit. Paul pointed out that their obsession with genealogy was misguided and pointless. Historically we know that Jewish royalty had been displaced at least twice, so that Herod's household was Edomite, forced to convert by Hyrcanus. The upper class of New Testament Jews were heavily mixed with Edomite sources. All we can prove today is points of DNA convergence since the time of the Roman Empire, not the original sources.
At any rate, this long article is worth reading, as are some of the linked articles. It's about the same as reading a small book. Fortunately, I had already read some of the linked material, but it still took a large chunk of my evening.
You don't have to know all this to serve Jesus. Rather, it's part of the repertoire of background material some of us should know in order to understand what we face today. It helps us understand the depth of lies Jews tell about themselves, and the peculiar fleshly obsessions that Satan uses to misguide people.
Comments
Jay DiNitto
Yikes, you're right, that is a long article. Thank you for the summary, though.
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