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[[Emperor Jimmu]] (神武天皇 ''Jinmu-tennō'') was the first [[Emperor of Japan]], according to legend. His accession is traditionally dated as 660 BC. In the reign of [[Emperor Kanmu]] (737–806), the eighth-century scholar [[Ōmi no Mifune]] designated rulers before Ōjin as ''tennō'' (天皇, "heavenly sovereign"), a Japanese pendant to the Chinese imperial title ''Tiān-dì'' (天帝), and [[wiktionary:posthumous|posthumusly]] gave several of them including '''[[Emperor Jimmu]]''' their canonical names. Prior to this time, these rulers had been known as ''sumera no mikoto/ōkimi''. [[Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto|The ''-no-mikoto'' ending]] is a common honorific suffix for the names of gods, of similar meaning to "the grand, the great, the exalted". Some may theorize that the term ''sumera'' is a variant of [[Sumer]]. However, this ''sumera'' is formed from honorific root ''sume'' + suffix ''ra'',<ref><span class="book">'''1988''', <cite>{{lang|ja|国語大辞典（新装版）}} (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition)</cite> (in Japanese), [[Tōkyō]]: [[Shogakukan]]</span></ref> rendering any [[etymology|etymological]] connection unlikely.
[[Emperor Jimmu]] (神武天皇 ''Jinmu-tennō'') was the first [[Emperor of Japan]], according to legend. His accession is traditionally dated as 660 BC. In the reign of [[Emperor Kanmu]] (737–806), the eighth-century scholar [[Ōmi no Mifune]] designated rulers before Ōjin as ''tennō'' (天皇, "heavenly sovereign"), a Japanese pendant to the Chinese imperial title ''Tiān-dì'' (天帝), and [[wiktionary:posthumous|posthumusly]] gave several of them including '''[[Emperor Jimmu]]''' their canonical names. Prior to this time, these rulers had been known as ''sumera no mikoto/ōkimi''. [[Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto|The ''-no-mikoto'' ending]] is a common honorific suffix for the names of gods, of similar meaning to "the grand, the great, the exalted". Some may theorize that the term ''sumera'' is a variant of [[Sumer]]. However, this ''sumera'' is formed from honorific root ''sume'' + suffix ''ra'',<ref><span class="book">'''1988''', <cite>{{lang|ja|国語大辞典（新装版）}} (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition)</cite> (in Japanese), [[Tōkyō]]: [[Shogakukan]]</span></ref> rendering any [[etymology|etymological]] connection unlikely.

===Southeastern Korea : the Kim royal family of the Silla dynasty (Now, the Old Andong Kim Clan)===
The Hata clan that came from the State of Shinra/Silla. Hata was common surname in Korean (Kim). Hata clan is Silla Kim clan(perhaps, Japanese Hata clan may be the New Andong Kim clan.<ref>https://famousdna.wiki.fc2.com/wiki/Y染色体O2a2b1a2系統</ref> Because Hata clan members in Japan are mostly Haplo O.<ref>https://famousdna.wiki.fc2.com/wiki/Y染色体O2a2b1a1系統</ref> <ref>https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Korea_DNA/default.aspx?section=yresults</ref>). People say that the Hata clan is Nestorian Jews. Nestorian Jews did not enter the Korean Peninsula until the 4th century. Investigators believe that this clan is original from Israel and is one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
<blockquote>the Korean word ‘shinra,’ later pronounced shin-ra and further distorted to silla – the name of a district in South Korea located in the western corner of Korea opposite Japan. It was once known as Kerin. Not only does that sound like the Hebrew word keren, which means animal horn or a corner, but the district is horn-shaped and occupies a place at the “corner” opposite Japan. Moreover, the remnant of the Ten Tribes lived there for generations.<ref>{{cite book|last=Shachan|first=Avigdor|title=In the Footsteps of the Lost Ten Tribes|publisher=hakibbutz hameuchad publishing house|year=2013|pages=343}}</ref></blockquote>
Approximately 1,700 years ago, the Scythian horsemen settled in the Southeastern Korea. They established the Silla kingdom with Naemul(r. 356~402) as its first king. The Silla Kim's royal family(新羅金氏王族) may be descendants of the Tribe of Dan. The Tribe of Dan are said to have had connections to the Scythian Jews. Haplo test can confirm with blood work. Haplogroup tests are used to determine if it is Jewish Christian(Haplo J and C : Jesus Christ). Jewish Christian have Judeo-centric perspective.<ref>Richard W. Cogley, The fall of the Ottoman Empire and the restoration of Israel in the "Judeo-centric" strand of Puritan millenarianism. 2003. American Society of Church History.</ref> Haplo C covers the Eurasia steppe. Hata clan Jewish theory is does not mean PURE blood. The Silla Kim clan was a naturalized East Asian citizens of Jewish birth. But That should be no Haplo O. Because Haplo O is East Asian native Haplo. Thus, J > C > O. The Gyeongju Kim clan(現, 慶州金氏族)'s haplogroup test results were Haplo O (Haplo O : East Asian Native), But the Old Andong Kim clan(舊安東金氏族)'s test results were Haplo C.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hong|first=Sunghee|title=A Study on Korean Male Origins Using Y Chromosome Single Nucleotide Polymorphism|publisher=Seoul W. Univ|year=2001}}</ref> Also 1950's research results, the Old Andong Kim clan have many clan villages while the Gyeongju Kim clan are not.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kim|first=Junghyun|title=the surname Kim's story|publisher=BoGoSa|year=2013|pages=282}}</ref> The original Gyeongju Kim clan seems likely have been exterminated.


===Lemba===
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Tribes of Israel
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The ten lost tribes were the ten of the twelve

tribes of ancient Israel that were said to have been deported from the Kingdom of Israel after its conquest by the Neo-Assyrian Empire circa 722 BCE.[1] These are the tribes of Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Manasseh and Ephraim. Claims of descent from the "lost" tribes have been proposed in relation to many groups,[2] and some religions espouse a messianic
view that the tribes will return.

In the 7th and 8th centuries CE, the return of the lost tribes was associated with the concept of the coming of the messiah.[3]

The Jewish historian Josephus (37–100 CE) wrote that "the ten tribes are beyond the Euphrates till now, and are an immense multitude and not to be estimated in numbers".[4]

Historian Tudor Parfitt has declared that "the Lost Tribes are indeed nothing but a myth", and he writes that "this myth is a vital feature of colonial discourse throughout the long period of European overseas empires, from the beginning of the fifteenth century, until the later half of the twentieth".[5] Zvi Ben-Dor Benite states: "The fascination with the tribes has generated, alongside ostensibly nonfictional scholarly studies, a massive body of fictional literature and folktale."[6] Anthropologist Shalva Weil has documented differing tribes and peoples claiming affiliation to the Lost Tribes throughout the world.[7]

The twelve tribes

See also: Assyrian captivity

The scriptural basis for the idea of "10 Lost Tribes" is 2 Kings 17:6: "In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of

Tribes of Israel
.

  • When the land of Israel was apportioned among the tribes in the days of Joshua, the Tribe of Levi, being chosen as priests, did not receive land (Joshua 13:33, 14:3). However, the tribe of Levi were given cities. Six cities were to be refuge cities for all men of Israel, which were to be controlled by the Levites. Three of these cities were located on each side of the Jordan River. In addition, 42 other cities (and their respective open spaces), totaling 48 cities, were given to the Tribe of Levi. (Numbers 35)
  • Jacob elevated the descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh (the two sons of Joseph by his Egyptian wife Asenath) (Genesis 41:50) to the status of full tribes in their own right, replacing the Tribe of Joseph (Genesis 48:5). Each tribe received its own land and had its own encampment during the 40 years of wandering in the desert.

Thus, the two divisions of the tribes are:

Traditional division Division according to apportionment of land in Israel
  1. Reuben
  2. Simeon
  3. Levi
  4. Judah
  5. Issachar
  6. Zebulun
  7. Dan
  8. Naphtali
  9. Gad
  10. Asher
  11. Joseph
  12. Benjamin
  1. Reuben
  2. Simeon
  3. Judah
  4. Issachar
  5. Zebulun
  6. Dan
  7. Naphtali
  8. Gad
  9. Asher
  10. Benjamin
  11. Ephraim (son of Joseph)
  12. Manasseh (son of Joseph)
  • Levi (no territorial allotment, except a number of cities located within the territories of the other tribes)

According to the Bible, the

Tribes of Israel rejected Solomon's son Rehoboam as their king. Nine landed tribes formed the Northern Kingdom: the tribes of Reuben, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Ephraim, and Manasseh. In addition, some members of the Tribe of Levi, who had no land allocation, were found in the Northern Kingdom. The Tribes of Judah and Benjamin remained loyal to Rehoboam, and formed the Kingdom of Judah (or Southern Kingdom). Members of Levi and the remnant of Simeon
were also found in the Southern Kingdom.

According to 2 Chronicles 15:9, members of the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon "fled" to Judah during the reign of Asa of Judah (c. 911–870 BCE). Whether these groups were absorbed into the population or remained distinct groups, or returned to their tribal lands is not indicated.

In c. 732 BCE, the

Naphish, and Nodab. People from these tribes, including the Reubenite leader, were taken captive and resettled in the region of the Khabur River system in Assyria/Mesopotamia. Tiglath-Pilesar also captured the territory of Naphtali and the city of Janoah in Ephraim, and an Assyrian governor was placed over the region of Naphtali. According to 2 Kings 16:9 and 15:29
, the population of Aram and the annexed part of Israel was deported to Assyria.

Israel continued to exist within the reduced territory as an independent kingdom subject to Assyria until around

Siloam) to be provided by King Hezekiah.[10] Furthermore, 2 Chronicles 30:1–11
explicitly mentions northern Israelites who had been spared by the Assyrians—in particular, members of Dan, Ephraim, Manasseh, Asher, and Zebulun—and how members of the latter three returned to worship at the Temple in Jerusalem at that time.

2 Kings 17:34 says, "To this day they persist in their former practices. They neither worship Yahweh nor adhere to the decrees and regulations, the laws and commands that Yahweh gave the descendants of Jacob, whom he named Israel." The medieval rabbi and biblical commentator David Kimhi explains that this is in reference to the tribes that were exiled, and that they remained in their ways, neither accepting a monotheistic God nor in adhering to any of the laws and regulations that were common to all Jews.[11]

The Hebrew Bible does not use the phrase "ten lost tribes", leading some to question the number of tribes involved. 1 Kings 11:31 states that the kingdom would be taken from Solomon and ten tribes given to Jeroboam:

And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee.

...

But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.

— 1 Kings 11:31,35

Biblical apocrypha

According to Zvi Ben-Dor Benite:

Centuries after their disappearance, the ten lost tribes sent an indirect but vital sign ... In

Aramaic by a Palestinian Jew sometime before the end of the first century CE, shortly after the destruction of the temple by the Romans. It is one of a group of texts later designated as the so-called Apocrypha—pseudoepigraphal books attached to but not included in the Hebrew biblical canon.[12]

New Testament

Some evidence exists of a continuing identification in later centuries of individual Israelites to the Lost Tribes. For example, in Luke 2:36 of the New Testament, an individual is identified with the tribe of Asher.

Religious beliefs

In Ezekiel 37:16-17, the prophet is told

Son of man, take a stick and write on it, ‘For Judah, and the people of Israel associated with him’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.’ 17 And join them one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

— Ezekiel 37:16–17

Judaism

There are discussions in the Talmud as to whether the ten lost tribes will eventually be reunited with the Tribe of Judah, that is, with the Jewish people.[13]

Christianity

The increased currency of tales relating to lost tribes that occurred in the 17th century was due to the confluence of several factors. According to Parfitt:

...As Michael Pollack shows, Menassah's argument was based on, 'three separate and seemingly unrelated sources: a verse from the book of Isaiah, Matteo Ricci's discovery of an old Jewish community in the heart of China and Antonio Montezinos' reported encounter with members of the Lost Tribes in the wilds of South America.'[14]

In 1605,

Southern Song Dynasty
, which existed until the late nineteenth century.

The Portuguese traveler and

Menasseh ben Israel, a noted rabbi and printer in Amsterdam, was excited by this news. He believed that a Messianic
age was approaching, and that having Jewish people settled around the world was necessary for it.

In 1649 Menassah published his book, The Hope of Israel, in Spanish and in Latin in Amsterdam; it included Montezinos' account of the Lost Tribes in the New World.[16][17] An English translation was published in London in 1650. In it Menasseh argued, and for the first time tried to give learned support in European thought and printing, to the theory that the native inhabitants of America at the time of the European discovery were actually descendants of the [lost] Ten Tribes of Israel.[16] Menasseh noted how important Montezinos' account was,

"...for the Scriptures do not tell what people first inhabited those Countries; neither was there mention of them by any, til Christop. Columbus, Americus, Vespacius, Ferdinandus, Cortez, the Marquesse Del Valle, and Franciscus Pizarrus went thither..."[18]

He wrote on 23 December 1649:

... I think that the Ten Tribes live not only there ... but also in other lands scattered everywhere; these never did come back to the Second Temple and they keep till this day still the Jewish Religion...[19]

In 1655, Menasseh ben Israel petitioned

Persian, Greek, and Roman world empires.[citation needed
]

Apocryphal accounts concerning the Lost Tribes, based to varying degrees on biblical accounts, have been produced by both

Ashkenazi Jewish tradition speaks of these tribes as Die Roite Yiddelech, "The little red Jews", cut off from the rest of Jewry by the legendary river Sambation, "whose foaming waters raise high up into the sky a wall of fire and smoke that is impossible to pass through".[21]

Historians generally concluded that the groups referred to as the Lost Tribes merged with the local population. For instance, the New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia states:

In historic fact, some members of the Ten Tribes remained in Palestine, where apart from the Samaritans some of their descendants long preserved their identity among the Jewish population, others were assimilated, while others were presumably absorbed by the last Judean exiles who in 597-586 BC were deported to Assyria...Unlike the Judeans of the southern Kingdom, who survived a similar fate 135 years later, they soon assimilated...[22][23]

Mormonism

Main article:
Mormon view of the House of Joseph

The Book of Mormon is based on the premise that two families of Jews escaped from Israel shortly before the sacking of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar and that they constructed a boat, crossed the ocean,[

which?] and arrived in the New World as founders of Native American tribes and eventually the Polynesians.[24] Mormons believe the two founding tribes were called Nephites and Lamanites, that the Nephites were white and practiced Christianity, and that the Lamanites were rebellious and received dark skin from God as a mark to separate the two tribes. Eventually the Lamanites wiped out the Nephites around 400 AD, leaving only dark skinned Native Americans. The descent of Native Americans from Israel is a key part of Mormonism's foundational beliefs. For example, Native American Mormons are almost always declared to be of the house of Manasseh when receiving Patriarchal Blessings, which purport to reveal ethnic lineage.[25]

literal gathering of Israel, and the LDS Church actively preaches the gathering of people from the twelve tribes.[26] "Today Israelites are found in all countries of the world. Many of these people do not know that they are descended from the ancient house of Israel," the church teaches in its basic Gospel Principles manual. "The Lord promised that His covenant people would someday be gathered .... God gathers His children through missionary work. As people come to a knowledge of Jesus Christ, receiving the ordinances of salvation and keeping the associated covenants, they become 'the children of the covenant' (3 Nephi
20:26)."

The LDS church also teaches that "The power and authority to direct the work of gathering the house of Israel was given to Joseph Smith by the prophet Moses, who appeared in 1836 in the Kirtland Temple.... The Israelites are to be gathered spiritually first and then physically. They are gathered spiritually as they join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and make and keep sacred covenants.... The physical gathering of Israel means that the covenant people will be “gathered home to the lands of their inheritance, and shall be established in all their lands of promise” (2 Nephi 9:2). The tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh will be gathered in the Americas. The tribe of Judah will return to the city of Jerusalem and the area surrounding it. The ten lost tribes will receive from the tribe of Ephraim their promised blessings (see D&C 133:26–34). . . The physical gathering of Israel will not be complete until the Second Coming of the Savior and on into the Millennium (see Joseph Smith—Matthew 1:37)."[27]

One of their main Articles of Faith, written by Joseph Smith, is as follows: "We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory." (LDS Articles of Faith #10)

Regarding the Ezekiel 37 prophecy, the LDS church teaches that the Book of Mormon is the stick of Ephraim (or Joseph) mentioned and that the Bible is the stick of Judah, thus comprising two witnesses for Jesus Christ. The LDS church believes the Book of Mormon to be a collection of records by prophets of the ancient Americas, written on plates of gold and translated by Joseph Smith c. 1830. The LDS church considers the Book of Mormon one of the main tools for the spiritual gathering of Israel.

Ethnology and anthropology

Expanded exploration and study of groups throughout the world through archeology and the new field of anthropology in the late 19th century led to a revival or reworking of accounts of the Lost Tribes.[28] For instance, because archeological finds of the Mississippian culture's complex earthwork mounds seemed beyond the skills of the Native American cultures known to European Americans at the time of their discovery, it was theorized that the ancient civilizations involved in the mounds' construction were linked to the Lost Tribes. They tried to fit new information into a biblical construct.[29] However, the earthworks across North America have been conclusively linked to various Native groups, and most archaeologists now consider the theory of non-Native origin to be pseudo-science.[30]

Groups which claim descent from the tribes

Bene Israel

Main article: Bene Israel

After learning about normative Judaism in the 19th century, the Bene Israel often migrated from villages in

Western Asia from Israel, their ancestors migrated to India and slowly assimilated into the surrounding community, while maintaining particular Jewish traditions.[34] David Rahabi, an Indian Jew, found the Bene Israel in the 18th century and took note of their Jewish customs.[35] Some historians note that the ancestors of the Bene Israel belonged to one of the Lost Tribes of Israel;[36] however, Jewish authorities have not officially recognized the Bene Israel as one of the Lost Tribes.[37]

Bnei Menashe

Main article: Bnei Menashe

Since the late 20th century, some tribes in the Indian North-Eastern states of Mizoram and Manipur claim they are Lost Israelites and have been studying Hebrew and Judaism.[38][39]

Beta Israel of Ethiopia

Main article: Beta Israel

The

Law of Return applied to the Beta Israel.[48]

Igbo Jews

Main article: Igbo Jews

The

Menasseh, Levi, Zebulun and Gad
. The theory, however, does not hold up to historical scrutiny. Historians have examined the historical literature on West Africa from the colonial era and they have elucidated diverse functions which such theories served for the writers who proposed them.[49][50]

Pakhtun/Pashtun of Afghanistan and Pakistan

Main article:
Theory of Pashtun descent from Israelites

The

Muslim people, native to Afghanistan and Pakistan, who adhere to a pre-Islamic indigenous religious code of honor and culture, Pashtunwali. The myth about Pashtuns being from the lost tribes of Israel has never been substantiated through concrete historical evidence.[51][52] Many members of the Taliban hail from the Pashtun tribes and they do not necessarily disclaim their alleged "Israelite" descent.[53][54]

The tribal name '

Jehangir. A similar story is told by the Iranian historian Ferishta.[55]

A number of genetic studies refute the possibility of a connection, whereas others maintain a link.[56][57]

In 2010, The Guardian reported that the Israeli government was planning to fund a genetic study in order to test the veracity of a genetic link between the Pashtuns and the lost tribes of Israel. The article stated "Historical and anecdotal evidence strongly suggests a connection, but definitive scientific proof has never been found. Some leading Israeli anthropologists believe that, of all the many groups in the world who claim a connection to the 10 lost tribes, the Pashtuns, or Pathans, have the most compelling case."[58]

Sefwi Tribe in Ghana

The Sefwi tribe in Ghana had a history of some Judaic practices, including observing the Sabbath, circumcision at eight days (brit milah), a rite of manhood at 13 years, observing laws of family purity (taharat mishpacha or niddah). In 1977 a member of the tribe, Aaron Ahotre Toakyirafa had a vision that he was Jewish and part of a lost tribe of Israel. Some scholars believe the Jewish customs likely represent Jews who were part of the expulsion from Spain in 1492 who migrated south from Morocco.[59] The community is now known as the "House of Israel."

Speculation regarding other ethnic groups

Scythian/Cimmerian theories

Black Obelisk
.

Several theories claim that the

Northern Kingdom of Israel, which had been deported by the Assyrians, became known in history as the Scythians and/or Cimmerians.[60]
Various points of view exist as to their modern descendants.

The Behistun Inscription is often cited as a link between the deported Israelites, the Cimmerians and the Scythians (Saka).

The 19th-century British scholar George Rawlinson wrote:

We have reasonable grounds for regarding the Gimirri, or Cimmerians, who first appeared on the confines of Assyria and Media in the seventh century B.C., and the Sacae of the Behistun Rock, nearly two centuries later, as identical with the Beth-Khumree of Samaria, or the Ten Tribes of the

House of Israel.[61]

Adherents point out that the

Cimmerian
.

It should be made clear from the start that the terms 'Cimmerian' and 'Scythian' were interchangeable: in Akkadian the name Iskuzai (Asguzai) occurs only exceptionally. Gimirrai (Gamir) was the normal designation for 'Cimmerians' as well as 'Scythians' in Akkadian.[62]

E. Raymond Capt, a British Israelite, claimed similarities between King Jehu's pointed headdress and that of the captive Saka king seen to the far right on the Behistun Inscription.[63] He also posited that the Assyrian word for the House of Israel, Khumri, which was named after Israel's King Omri of the 8th century BC, is connected phonetically to Gimirri (Cimmerian).[63]

Dimont (1933) says of the Israel/Scythian theory that the customs of the Scythians and the Cimmerians differ from those of the Ancient Israelites.[64]

Native Americans

See also: Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory § The "Lost Tribe"

In 1650, a British divine named Thomas Thorowgood, who was a preacher in Norfolk, published a book entitled Jewes in America or Probabilities that the Americans are of that Race,[65] which he had prepared for the New England missionary society. Tudor Parfitt writes:

The society was active in trying to convert the Indians but suspected that they might be Jews and realized they better be prepared for an arduous task. Thorowgood's tract argued that the native population of North America were descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes.[66]

In 1652

Puritan missionary to the Indians who had translated the Bible into an Indian language.[67]

Japanese

Main article: Japanese-Jewish common ancestry theory

Some writers have speculated that the Japanese people may be the direct descendants of some of the Ten Lost Tribes. Tudor Parfitt writes that "the spread of the fantasy of Israelite origin ... forms a consistent feature of the Western colonial enterprise":

It is in fact in Japan that we can trace the most remarkable evolution in the Pacific of an imagined Judaic past. As elsewhere in the world, the theory that aspects of the country were to be explained via an Israelite model was introduced by Western agents.[68]

In 1878, Scottish immigrant to Japan Nicholas McLeod published Epitome of the Ancient History of Japan.[69] McLeod drew correlations between his observations of Japan and the fulfillment of biblical prophecy:

The civilized race of the Aa. Inus, the Tokugawa and the Machi No Hito of the large towns, by dwelling in the tent or tabernacle shaped houses first erected by Jin Mu Tenno, have fulfilled Noah's prophecy regarding Japhet, "He shall dwell in the tents of Shem."(McLeod, 1878. p. 7)

Several other authors have followed McLeod in speculating about parallels between Japanese and Israelite rituals, culture and language in an attempt to support the hypothesis.[70] Arimasa Kubo, an ordained Christian minister, has translated McLeod's book into Japanese, and has published a number of works on the topic.[71] In his article, "Mystery of the Ten Lost Tribes: Japan", he asserts that many traditional customs and ceremonies in Japan are very similar to those of ancient Israel.[72] He postulates that perhaps these rituals came from the Jews through members of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, who might have come to ancient Japan.

Jon Entine emphasizes that DNA evidence shows that there are no genetic links between Japanese and Israelite people.[73]

Emperor Jimmu (神武天皇 Jinmu-tennō) was the first Emperor of Japan, according to legend. His accession is traditionally dated as 660 BC. In the reign of Emperor Kanmu (737–806), the eighth-century scholar Ōmi no Mifune designated rulers before Ōjin as tennō (天皇, "heavenly sovereign"), a Japanese pendant to the Chinese imperial title Tiān-dì (天帝), and posthumusly gave several of them including Emperor Jimmu their canonical names. Prior to this time, these rulers had been known as sumera no mikoto/ōkimi. The -no-mikoto ending is a common honorific suffix for the names of gods, of similar meaning to "the grand, the great, the exalted". Some may theorize that the term sumera is a variant of Sumer. However, this sumera is formed from honorific root sume + suffix ra,[74] rendering any etymological connection unlikely.

Southeastern Korea : the Kim royal family of the Silla dynasty (Now, the Old Andong Kim Clan)

The Hata clan that came from the State of Shinra/Silla. Hata was common surname in Korean (Kim). Hata clan is Silla Kim clan(perhaps, Japanese Hata clan may be the New Andong Kim clan.[75] Because Hata clan members in Japan are mostly Haplo O.[76] [77]). People say that the Hata clan is Nestorian Jews. Nestorian Jews did not enter the Korean Peninsula until the 4th century. Investigators believe that this clan is original from Israel and is one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.

the Korean word ‘shinra,’ later pronounced shin-ra and further distorted to silla – the name of a district in South Korea located in the western corner of Korea opposite Japan. It was once known as Kerin. Not only does that sound like the Hebrew word keren, which means animal horn or a corner, but the district is horn-shaped and occupies a place at the “corner” opposite Japan. Moreover, the remnant of the Ten Tribes lived there for generations.[78]

Approximately 1,700 years ago, the Scythian horsemen settled in the Southeastern Korea. They established the Silla kingdom with Naemul(r. 356~402) as its first king. The Silla Kim's royal family(新羅金氏王族) may be descendants of the Tribe of Dan. The Tribe of Dan are said to have had connections to the Scythian Jews. Haplo test can confirm with blood work. Haplogroup tests are used to determine if it is Jewish Christian(Haplo J and C : Jesus Christ). Jewish Christian have Judeo-centric perspective.[79] Haplo C covers the Eurasia steppe. Hata clan Jewish theory is does not mean PURE blood. The Silla Kim clan was a naturalized East Asian citizens of Jewish birth. But That should be no Haplo O. Because Haplo O is East Asian native Haplo. Thus, J > C > O. The Gyeongju Kim clan(現, 慶州金氏族)'s haplogroup test results were Haplo O (Haplo O : East Asian Native), But the Old Andong Kim clan(舊安東金氏族)'s test results were Haplo C.[80] Also 1950's research results, the Old Andong Kim clan have many clan villages while the Gyeongju Kim clan are not.[81] The original Gyeongju Kim clan seems likely have been exterminated.

Lemba

Main article: Lemba people

The

Sana'a, also located in Yemen.[86][87]

British Israelism

Main article: British Israelism

British Israelism (also known as 'Anglo-Israelism') espouses the theory that people of northwestern European descent, especially those who live in the United Kingdom and the United States, are descended from the lost tribes of Israel.

Adherents believe that the deported Israelites became Scythians/Cimmerians who they say are ancestors of the Celts/Anglo-Saxons of Western Europe.[88] The theory arose in England, from whence it spread to the United States.[89] During the 20th century, British Israelism was promoted by Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God.[90] The Worldwide Church of God no longer teaches the theory,[91] but some offshoot churches such as the Philadelphia Church of God, the Church of God, an International Community, the Church of God, a Worldwide Association, United Church of God and the Living Church of God continue to teach it. One notable adherent of British Israelism was Alberta premier "Bible Bill" Aberhart.

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" (Parfitt, 2003. p. 61).[87]

Brit-Am

Brit-Am, sometimes confused with British Israelism, is an organization centered in Jerusalem, and composed of Jews and non-Jews. Brit-Am, like British Israel, identifies the Lost Ten Tribes with peoples of West European descent, but does so from a Jewish perspective, quoting both biblical and Rabbinical sources. It uses Rabbinical Commentary supplemented by secular theories that posit the Lost Tribes/Scythian/Cimmerian connection, which are believed to have been ancestors of current Western European cultures and nations.[92] An example of Brit-Am scholarship may be seen from its treatment of Obadiah 1:20[93] in Hebrew. Obadiah mentions "Galut HaHail HaZeh" i.e. "this First Exile" being in "Tsarafath", where the original Hebrew was understood by Rabbinical commentators such as Rashi and Don Isaac Abrabanel as referring to the Lost Ten Tribes in France and England.[94] Brit-Am also believes that "Other Israelite Tribes gave rise to elements within Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Wales, France, The Netherlands, and Belgium" and that "The Tribe of Dan is to be found amongst part of the Danish, Irish, and Welsh." Brit-Am also believes that the Khazars were descended from the Ten Tribes and quotes Jewish and non-Jewish sources that were contemporaneous with them.[95]

Other variants

Other organizations teach other variants of the theory, including the claim that the Scythians/Cimmerians represented in whole or in part the Ten Lost Tribes. One such theory posits that the lost Israelites can be defined by the Y-DNA

Odessa on the Black Sea (formerly in Russia) and over a period of time travelled through Eastern Europe, then into Western Europe through France and onto the British Isles, including Ireland
.

See also

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