LOST ISRAELITE IDENTITY - by Yair Davidy

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 05:12:33 GMT

This fascinating and scholarly book by Yair Davidy was published in Israel in 1996. Davidy spent decades on his investigations, helped also by material gathered and donated by other researchers.

The book is all about the Hebrew ancestry of the Celtic races. The ten tribes of the northern Israel kingdom were exiled by the Assyrians in 721 BC and finally found their way to Western Europe.

I borrowed this book through the Campaspe library system from the State Library of Victoria.

Yair Davidy was born in Australia but now lives in Jerusalem.

The British-Israel concept is not a new one, but this well-researched book by this Jewish man confirms this contention very strongly. Davidy, in other books, goes well beyond the British identity to include many in Western Europe as well. The study of the lost ten tribes has occupied scholars of many backgrounds for many hundreds of years.

In another book by Davidy, and writings by others as well, the tribe of Zebulon is shown after the Assyrian captivity to have eventually settled in Holland, the land of my birth.

I see myself as an Israelite of the tribe of Zebulon. As an Israelite I am part of the chosen people and therefore a descendant of Jacob (or his new name Israel) and through him back to Abraham. Others again see Holland as part of the tribe of Dan together with the Danish and other neighbouring peoples. I tend to favour that (Caucasian) Hollanders are from the tribe of Zebulon. Some again say that Zebulon and Issacher are closely related, if not mixed together. This might be so.

Although Jesus Christ is from the tribe of Judah, as a part of the tribes of Israel, I am His kinsman, while He is my redeemer.

Rabbi Abraham Feld of the Macabee Institute (for emergency rescue, educational and social aid) based in Jerusalem wrote an excellent letter of commendation included at the beginning of Davidy's book.

If you don't understand a word of the above, do not panic. If you do understand some of it, don't jump to incorrect conclusions. Do the hard yards.

Start reading the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) from Genesis onwards. Look at the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities. Look also at the dispersion after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD. Historian Josephus has written much about that. After all he as a Judean general was part of Jerusalem's defense. There is a good book entitled Thrones of Blood (based on Josephus' writings) which is the story of the last seven years prior to the fall of Jerusalem accomplished by Roman general Titus.

Think about it!

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LOST ISRAELITE IDENTITY - by Yair Davidy