J-M's History Corner

This is my monthly reblog of an older post. Here, at long last, is the article I promised you in  The Forgotten Jews almost 3 months ago. The Ashkenazis, otherwise known as the Ashkenazim, make up the vast majority of world Jewry.  They come from Eastern Europe, particularly (but not exclusively) Germany.  The second-largest group is the Sephardim, who come from Spain, followed by the Mizrahim, who stayed in the Middle East. However, there is a theory – founded in the 1800s, and holding some small degree of popularity today – that the Ashkenazim are not Jews; but rather, Gentile descendants of the Khazars.  The Khazars were a Turkish people whose empire, known as Khazaria, lasted from about 650 AD to 969 AD. Is this claim true, or false? Read the rest at https://jmshistorycorner.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-ashkenazis-jews-or-khazars.html .

Today I present my Restored English Translation (RET) of the 38th chapter of the Sefer Beresheet , known in English as the Book of Genesis .  As usual, it contains the Hebrew names , with a glossary of them afterward.  At the end is a glossary of where the Aleph Tavs occur, as they are no longer included in the main text.  This chapter concerns Judah's accidental adultery with his daughter-in-law Tamar, and the two children resulting, Perez and Zerah.  Perez is well known as the ancestor of King David and Yeshua (Jesus).  Zerah's descendants are less well known, and almost unattested in Scripture.  I follow the intriguing trail of his descendants in The Forgotten Jews . CHAPTER 38 1 And it was at that time that Yehudah went down from his brothers, and turned in to a certain Adullami, whose name was Chirah. 2 And Yehudah saw there a daughter of a certain Kena'ani whose name was Shua. And he took her and went in to her. 3 And she conceived and...

This is my monthly reblog of an older post.   The following is genealogical charts based on the information in the previous 2 posts. Read the rest here:  https://jmshistorycorner.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-forgotten-jews-part-3.html .

Here, at long last, is the article I promised you in  The Forgotten Jews almost 3 months ago. The Ashkenazis, otherwise known as the Ashkenazim, make up the vast majority of world Jewry.  They come from Eastern Europe, particularly (but not exclusively) Germany.  The second-largest group is the Sephardim, who come from Spain, followed by the Mizrahim, who stayed in the Middle East. However, there is a theory – founded in the 1800s, and holding some small degree of popularity today – that the Ashkenazim are not Jews; but rather, Gentile descendants of the Khazars.  The Khazars were a Turkish people whose empire, known as Khazaria, lasted from about 650 AD to 969 AD. Is this claim true, or false? THEIR NAME This argument is used fairly frequently for arguing a Khazarian (or at least Gentile) origin for the Ashkenazim.  It derives from the following passage: The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras....

This would have been part of the original post, but I clean forgot about it!  There are other descendants of Judah's son Perez that have been forgotten: the Ethiopian Jews, specifically the Royal Family. There is a rather enigmatic figure mentioned in the Bible in connection with King Solomon: the Queen of Sheba.  She has remained a mystery.  Or is she? Many people wonder where the land of Sheba was.  However, there are two vital clues: our Messiah Yehoshua Himself described this woman as "queen of the south" (Matthew 12: 42), while Josephus described her as the "queen of Egypt and Ethiopia" (Antiquities 8.6.2 (8.159) and 8.6.5 (8.165)).  Ethiopian tradition confirms this.  (They also have many other interesting details.)  According to the Ethiopians, her name was Makeda.  She converted to Judaism during her visit.  She apparently had a sexual affair with Solomon, for she became pregnant with his child.  His name was Menelik (also kn...

At first, this title may seem very confusing.  I mean, we know who the Jews are, right?  And you'd be partly right; the Jews - who they are, where they live (e.g. State of Israel, America, etc) are widely known.  But they are only some of the Jews (and yes, they ARE Jews; in a later post I will refute the myth that they are not).  They represent the descendants of Judah's sons Shelah and Perez (albeit not all of Perez's descendants, as I will cover in this article).  Judah had other sons, and other descendants. Okay, I'd better back up and provide a bit of background.  Judah, son of Jacob (Israel) and Leah, married a Canaanite woman.  They had three sons: Er, Onan and Shelah.  Er and Onan died childless, and their widow Tamar (who married Onan after Er's death) was promised to Shelah - when he grew up.  That didn't happen, Tamar dressed up as a prostitute, seduced Judah, and became pregnant with twins.  These were Perez and Zerah....