J-M's History Corner

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 .

This is my monthly reblog of an older post. 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. Read the rest at   http://jmshistorycorner.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-forgotten-jews-part-2.html

This is my monthly reblog of an older post. 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. Read the rest at  https://jmshistorycorner.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-hidden-jews.html.