02-11-2004, 02:54 PM
Akhi Rob,
The ten tribes who were taken into captivity in Assyria never left Assyria, and they are still there to this day. In our villages, we had plenty of them who continued to know their identity and some even accepted Meshikha and joined the CoE.
When the Baathist party came to power in Iraq, most of them emigrated to Israel...particularly to suburbs of Tel Aviv like Kfar Shmoni. They still speak Aramaic, by the way.
They look just like all the other Semites of the area, Arabs, Assyrians, etc.
The theory that Europeans are Ephraim, etc. is all junk.
The ten tribes who were taken into captivity in Assyria never left Assyria, and they are still there to this day. In our villages, we had plenty of them who continued to know their identity and some even accepted Meshikha and joined the CoE.
When the Baathist party came to power in Iraq, most of them emigrated to Israel...particularly to suburbs of Tel Aviv like Kfar Shmoni. They still speak Aramaic, by the way.
They look just like all the other Semites of the area, Arabs, Assyrians, etc.
The theory that Europeans are Ephraim, etc. is all junk.
+Shamasha Paul bar-Shimun de'Beth-Younan
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