British Israelism
British Israelism (also called Anglo-Israelism) is the British nationalist, pseudoarchaeological, pseudohistorical[1] and pseudoreligious[2] belief that the people of Great Britain are "genetically, racially, and linguistically the direct descendants" of the Ten Lost Tribes of ancient Israel.[3] With roots in the 16th century, British Israelism was inspired by several 19th century English writings such as John Wilson's 1840 Our Israelitish Origin.[4] From the 1870s onward, numerous independent British Israelite organizations were set up throughout the British Empire as well as in the United States; as of the early 21st century, a number of these organizations are still active. In the United States, the idea gave rise to the Christian Identity movement.
The central tenets of British Israelism have been refuted by archaeological,[5] ethnological,[6] genetic,[7]: 181 and linguistic research.[8][9]: 33–34
History
Earliest recorded expressions
According to Brackney (2012) and Fine (2015), the French
Aspects of British Israelism and its influences have also been traced to Richard Brothers, who published A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies and Times in 1794,[12]: 1 John Wilson's Our Israelitish Origin (1844),[12]: 6-9 and John Pym Yeatman's The Shemetic Origin of the Nations of Western Europe (1879).[13] : 211
Foundation
British Israelism arose in England, then spread to the United States.[14]: 52–65 Its adherents cite various supposedly-medieval manuscripts to claim an older origin, but British Israelism appeared as a distinct movement in the early 1880s:
Although scattered British Israel societies are known to have existed as early as 1872, there was at first no real move to develop an organization beyond the small groups of believers which had arisen spontaneously. The beginnings of the movement as an identifiable religious force can, therefore, be more accurately placed in the 1880s, when the circumstances of the time were particularly propitious for the appearance of a movement so imperialistically-orientated.[15]
Peak of adherence to British Israelism - late 19th and early 20th centuries
The extent to which the British clergy became aware of the existence of the movement may be gauged by the comment which
In the late 19th century, Edward Hine, Edward Wheler Bird, and Herbert Aldersmith developed the British Israelite movement. Hine and Bird achieved a degree of "doctrinal coherence" by eliminating competing forms of the ideology: in 1878, the Anglo-Ephraim Association of London, which followed Wilson by accepting the broader community of western European Germanic peoples as fellow Israelites who were also favoured by God, was absorbed into Bird's Metropolitan Anglo-Israel Association, which espoused the Anglo-exclusive view promoted by Hine.[13]: 209
By 1886, the "Anglo-Israel Association" had 27 affiliated groups throughout Britain.[12]: 9 Hine later departed for the United States, where he promoted the movement.[14]: 56 [10]: 176
The 1906 edition of the
Between 1899 and 1902, adherents of British Israelism dug up parts of the
In 1914, the thirty-fourth year of its publication, the Anglo-Israel Almanac listed the details of a large number of Kingdom Identity Groups which were operating independently throughout the British Isles as well as in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, and the United States of America.[citation needed]
In 1919, the
A prolific author on British Israelism during the later 1930s and 40s was Alexander James Ferris.[20]
Contemporary movement
The BIWF continues to exist, with its main headquarters in Bishop Auckland, County Durham.[21] It also has chapters in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand and South Africa.[22]
In 1968, one source estimated that there were between 3,000 and 5,000 British Israelites in Britain.[23] There, the theology of British Israelism has been taught by a few small Pentecostal churches.
The post-Imperial era brought about a change in orientation for British Israelists, reflected in a corresponding change in the social class to which their membership predominantly belonged. During the years of its initial growth, it could depend on the spread of Christian fundamentalism within the country, the emotional appeal of imperialism and a belief in the unrivaled power of the British economy to expand a middle-class membership that viewed it as the divine duty of the nation, as God's chosen people, to rule and civilize the world. By the mid-20th century, the dissipation of these factors changed the focus of the movement to one troubled by social and moral decline, including the degradation of class distinctions and of monarchical absolutism. Societal changes were viewed as portents of a coming apocalypse and as indications that the nation was in need of redemption. A fantasized society which practiced Victorian moral rectitude and imperialism, lacked socialism, bureaucrats, intellectuals and income tax, would now come to be viewed by the movement which drew its support from the well-to-do as the ideal that modern British society should emulate.[23]
Tenets
Most Israelites are not Jews
Adherents believe that the Twelve Tribes of Israel are the twelve sons of the patriarch Jacob (who was later named Israel). Jacob elevated the descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh (the two sons of Joseph) to the status of full tribes in their own right, replacing the tribe of Joseph. A division occurred among the twelve tribes in the days of Jeroboam and Rehoboam, with the three tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and, in part, Levi, forming the Kingdom of Judah, and the remaining ten tribes forming the Kingdom of Israel (Samaria).[24] Thus, they argue, "the great bulk of Israelites are not the Jews".[25]: 71 [26][27] W. E. Filmer, writing in 1964, suggested that the fact that some Jews continue to search for the ten lost tribes implies that their representatives are not found among modern-day, multi-ethnic, Jews.[28] A number of British Israelites quote Josephus in order to support their claim that the lost tribes of Israel are not Jews: "the entire body of the people of Israel remained in that country; wherefore there are but two tribes in Asia and Europe subject to the Romans, while the ten tribes are beyond the Euphrates till now, and are an immense multitude."[29][25]: 247 [30][31]
The British are the descendants of the Lost Tribes
The key component of British Israelism is its representation of the migrations of the
Bede (died 735) had linked the Picts to the Scythians, but British Israelists suggested that he had confused the two tribes of Scotland, and that it was the Scotti (Scots) who were one with the Scoloti (Scyths) of Herodotus.[40] They drew particular support from the derivation of the Scots from the Scythians found in the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath,[25]: 262 reflecting a tradition related in the 9th-century Historia Brittonum that the Scots descended from the union of a Scythian exile with Scota, daughter of a Pharaoh, a tale found in some form in several other early-14th-century historical and poetic sources.[41] The Declaration begins:
"Most Holy Father and Lord, we know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread renown. They journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous. Thence they came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to their home in the west where they still live today."[42]
British-Israel Associations cite the Declaration as evidence for the link between the Scots and the Scythians, and hence the Lost Tribes,[43] as had been proposed by the early British Israelist etymologists.[25]: 285–296
Other Celtic invaders would be given an analogous descent. In the
According to the Anglo-Israelists, these claimed connections would make the British the literal descendants of the Lost Tribes, and thus inheritors of the promises made to the Israelites in the Old Testament.[46]
The British throne is a continuation of the Davidic throne
Some adherents further claim that the
Britain and the United States are the inheritors of Jacob's birthright
A commonly held British-Israel doctrine is the belief that the Tribe of Ephraim and the Tribe of Manasseh can be identified as modern day Britain and the United States of America.[48][49][50]
Part of the foundation of the British-Israel doctrine is the theological claim that particular blessings were bestowed upon three of the tribes of Israel,[51][52][50][25]: 317 in that the tribe of Judah was to be the 'chief ruler' e.g. King David, and Ephraim was to receive the birthright (See Jacob and Esau). Adherents believe that these blessings have continued down through the ages to modern times, with the British Monarchy being identified as the continued blessing upon Judah, and both Britain (Ephraim) and the USA (Manasseh) as recipients of the national birthright blessing. They cite passages such as 1 Chron 5:1–2 and Gen 48:19–20 in order to support their claim.[citation needed]
Claims and criticism
British Israelism has been criticized for its poor research and scholarship. In the 1910 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, an article which summarizes the theology of British Israelism contains the statement that: "The theory [of British-Israelism] rests on premises which are deemed by scholars—both theological and anthropological—to be utterly unsound".[53] Current scholarship is not consistent with the claims of British Israelism, with scholars drawing attention to its "historical and linguistic inaccuracies" in addition to its links to antisemitism.[3] Hale (2015) refers to "the overwhelming cultural, historical and genetic evidence against it."[7]: 181
Research standards
Critics of British Israelism note that the arguments which are presented by promoters of the teaching are based on unsubstantiated and highly speculative, amateur research. Tudor Parfitt, author of The Lost Tribes: The History of a Myth, states that the proof cited by adherents of British Israelism is "of a feeble composition even by the low standards of the genre."[14]: 61
Historical linguistics
Some proponents of British Israelism have claimed that numerous links exist between historical linguistics, Ancient Hebrew, and various European place names and languages.[14]: 62 This can be traced to the works of John Wilson in the 19th century. The self-trained Wilson looked for similarities in the sounds of words and argued that many Scottish, British and Irish words stemmed from ancient Hebrew words. Wilson's publications inspired the development of British Israel language associations in Europe.[9]: 33
Modern scholarly linguistic analysis conclusively shows that the languages of the British Isles (
Others have addressed the specific word relationships proposed. Russell Spittler (1973) says of the "disputable" etymological claims made by the British Israelists that they "have no ample basis in linguistic scholarship and are based on coincidences only."[38] William Ingram (1995) would present arguments made by British Israelism as examples of "tortured etymology".[36]: 121
Scriptural interpretation
Adherents of British Israelism cite various scriptures in support of the argument that the "lost" Northern Israelite Tribes migrated through Europe to end up in Britain.[56] Dimont (1933) argues that British Israelists misunderstand and misinterpret the meaning of these scriptures.[57]: 5–7
One such case is the distinction that British Israelists make between the "Jews" of the Southern Kingdom and the "Israelites" of the Northern Kingdom. They believe that the Bible consistently distinguishes the two groups.[citation needed] Dimont says that many of these scriptures are misinterpreted because after the captivities, the distinction between "Jews" and "Israelites" was lost over time.[citation needed]
British Israelists believe that the Northern Tribes of Israel lost their identity after the captivity in Assyria and that this is reflected in the Bible.[citation needed] Dimont disagrees with this assertion and argues that only higher-ranking Israelites were deported from Israel and many Israelites remained.[57]: 5 He cites examples after the Assyrian captivity, such as Josiah, King of Judah, who received money from the tribes of "Manasseh, and Ephraim and all the remnant of Israel" (2 Chronicles 34:9), and Hezekiah, who sent invitations not only to Judah, but also to northern Israel for the attendance of a Passover in Jerusalem. (2 Chronicles 30);[57]: 6 British Israelites interpret 2 Chronicles 34:9 as referring to "Scythians".[citation needed]
Dimont is also critical of the interpretations of biblical prophecy embraced by the movement, saying, "Texts are torn from their context, and misapplied without the slightest regard to their original meaning."[57]: 18
Historical speculation
British Israelism rests on linking different ancient populations. This includes linking the "lost" tribes of Israel with the Scythians, Cimmerians, Celts, and modern Western Europeans such as the British. To support these links, some adherents believe that similarities exist between various cultural aspects of these population groups, and they argue that these links demonstrate the migration of the "lost" Israelites in a westerly direction. Examples given include burial customs, metalwork, clothing, dietary customs, and more.[58] Dimont argues that the customs of the Scythians and the Cimmerians are in contrast to those of the Ancient Israelites,[57]: 7–10 and he further dismisses the connection between these populations and the Saxons and Celts, particularly criticizing the then-current formulations of British Israelism that would interject Semites between the closely related English and Germans.[57]: 10–11
The Scythian origin of the Scots has been referred to as mythical.[59][60] Algernon Herbert, writing in 1848, characterized the linguistic derivation of Scots from Scoloti as "strictly impossible",[59] and Merrill (2005) referred to it as false etymology.[40]
Addressing their view on the fate of the exiled tribes, Frank Boys said of their voluminous output, "All the effort to write these volumes might well have been saved on the premise that 'they were never lost,' which we believe to be the correct one."[38]
Ideology
Separately, the mythology of British Israelism has been characterized as fostering "nationalistic bellicosity" by historians.[62] To some adherents, British Israelism served as a justification for British imperialism and American settler colonialism (manifest destiny), along with the displacement of indigenous peoples which subsequently followed them.[13]: 212–213
Influences on other movements
Mormonism
British Israelism was rapidly growing in England when the United States-based Latter Day Saint movement sent its first missionaries to England. British Israelist ideas clearly influenced Mormon thought by the 1850s, and by the 1870s, Mormon periodicals published in Britain were citing British Israelist proponents to promote the belief that most Mormons were of Anglo-Saxon and Israelite descent, concepts that would subsequently be synthesized into general Mormon discourse.[63][64]: 18, 35–36 [65]
Pentecostalism
Several individuals who were influential in the founding of Pentecostalism embraced the tenets of British Israelism. The British-Israel-inspired self-identification of Anglo-Saxon peoples with the Jewish nation and the promises which were made to them by their god would significantly contribute to the belief that they would play a central role in the end times, a belief which was adhered to by several prominent proto- and early-pentecostals. Notable among them was John Alexander Dowie, who spoke about Anglo-Saxon Christians' plans to take control of Jerusalem in order to prepare for the Second Coming. This legacy was continued by Charles Fox Parham, but he believed that the Lost Tribes would join their Jewish brethren in order to reestablish the nation of Israel. His view of the Lost Tribes was more expansive than Dowie's view (see Nordic Israelism) , in addition to encompassing Anglo-Saxons, it also encompassed Scandinavians, Danes, High Germans, and even Hindus and Japanese (see Japanese-Jewish common ancestry theory), who, according to Parham, had acquired the blood of Abraham through intermarriage and were hence eligible to take part in his end-time drama. British-Israelist beliefs would soon be marginalized in the movement, but their influences could still be seen in the teachings of several key leaders in the mid-20th-century.[66]
Noted Christian Identity minister
In Britain, the espousal of British Israelism by George Jeffreys, founder of the Elim Pentecostal Church, led to a schism which precipitated his resignation in 1939 and led to the formation of the Bible-Pattern Church Fellowship,[67] which continues to teach the doctrine.[68]
Herbert W. Armstrong
Beginning in the 1960s, the teaching of British Israelism was vigorously promoted by
Armstrong founded his own church, first named the "Radio Church of God" and later renamed the "Worldwide Church of God".[70] He described British Israelism as a "central plank" of his theology.[71]
After Armstrong's death, his former church abandoned its belief in British Israelism and in 2009, it changed its name to Grace Communion International (GCI). It offers an explanation for the doctrine's origin as well as an explanation for the church's renunciation of the doctrine on its official website.[70] Church members who refused to accept these doctrinal changes left the Worldwide Church of God/GCI and founded their own offshoot churches. Many of these organizations still teach British Israelism, among them are the Philadelphia Church of God, the Living Church of God, and the United Church of God. Armstrong promoted other genealogical history theories, such as the belief that modern-day Germany represents ancient Assyria (see Assyria and Germany in Anglo-Israelism), writing, "The Assyrians settled in central Europe, and the Germans, undoubtedly, are, in part, the descendants of the ancient Assyrians.".[72]
Christian Identity
While early British Israelites such as Edward Hine and John Wilson were generally
Notable adherents
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- Richard Brothers (1757–1824), an early believer and teacher/promoter of this teaching
- John Wilson (1799–1870) published a series of his lectures in a book, Our Israelitish Origin (1840)
- Archbishop William Bennett Bond (1815–1906), Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada
- Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819–1900), pyramidologist and Astronomer Royal for Scotland
- William H. Poole (1820–1896), Methodist minister, known for his book Anglo-Israel, or the British Nation the Lost Tribes of Israel (1889)
- Edward Wheler Bird (1823–1903), Anglo-Indian judge and British-Israel author
- Edward Hine (1825–1891), artist, historian, author of Forty-Seven Identifications of the British Nation with the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel
- John Cox Gawler (1830–1882) was a Keeper of the Jewel House and a British Israelite author
- Elieser Bassin (1840–1898), a Russian-Jewish convert to Christianity
- John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841–1920), Admiral of the Fleet[79]
- John Alexander Dowie (1847–1907), Scottish-born American evangelist, faith healer and forerunner of Pentecostalism
- Richard Reader Harris (KC)(1847–1909), founder of the Pentecostal League of Prayer movement in London
- J. Theodore Bent), British explorer and author of Anglo-Saxons from Palestine (1908).[80]
- John Harden Allen (1847–1930), an American Holiness minister, wrote Judah's Sceptre and Joseph's Birthright
- C. A. L. Totten (1851–1908), Professor of Military Tactics at Yale University, wrote countless articles and books advocating British Israelism, including a 26-volume series entitled Our Race
- Sibyl Marvin Huse (1866-1939), American author of religious books and teacher/Reader of Christian Science
- Charles Fox Parham (1873–1929), American preacher, instrumental in the formation of Pentecostalism
- William Comyns Beaumont (1873–1956), British journalist, author, and lecturer[citation needed]
- William J. Cameron (1878–1955), publicist for Henry Ford, advocated British-Israelism in Ford-sponsored publications
- William Aberhart (1878–1943), a Social Credit premier of Alberta from 1935 to 1943
- Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883–1981), a patron of the British-Israel-World Federation[81]
- George Jeffreys (1889–1962), Welsh minister and evangelist who founded the Elim Pentecostal Church[67]
- Herbert W. Armstrong (1892–1986), American evangelist who founded the Worldwide Church of God
- Boake Carter (1903–1944), British-educated American radio news commentator
- Patience Strong (1907–1990), poet[16]
- Alexander James Ferris, a prolific author on British Israelism
- Garner Ted Armstrong (1930–2003), the son of Herbert W. Armstrong and the founder of the Church of God International (United States)
- Gerald Flurry (born 1935), pastor general of the Philadelphia Church of God and editor-in-chief of 'The Philadelphia Trumpet' magazine
- Robert Bradford (1941–1981), Methodist minister and Ulster Unionist politician
- Alan Campbell (1949–2017), former Pentecostal pastor from Northern Ireland[82]
- Nelson McCausland (born 1951), Democratic Unionist politician[83]
See also
- 19th-century Anglo-Saxonism
- American exceptionalism
- And did those feet in ancient time, the poem written by William Blake that is popularly titled "Jerusalem"
- Armstrongism
- Assyria and Germany in Anglo-Israelism
- Black Hebrew Israelites
- Christianity and Judaism
- Christian observances of Jewish holidays
- Christian views on the Old Covenant
- Christian Zionism
- Cultural appropriation
- French Israelism
- Groups claiming affiliation with Israelites
- Jews as the chosen people
- Judaizers
- Supersessionism
- Ten Lost Tribes
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- Menassah ben Israel, The Hope of Israel (London, 1650, English translation), scanned text online at Oliver's Bookshelf
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