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Evidence of Large Numbers

Rossi, the use of secular sources for near east history is a problem because most of the stuff written back then was very biased, to say the least. Each nation recorded its "story" to glorify itself.

Distrusting the written record leads...

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More info.

Thanks, Rossi, for more details on the distinction. The 10 northern tribes were often called "Ephraim" (one of the sons of Joseph). I called them "Hebrew" because they still were descendants of Israel (Jacob). Both the north and south were infected by idolatry...

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About blood types: The e-mail I got mentioned that Basques and Eastern European Jews have high rates of 0- blood. It exists in 7% of people on our planet.

About wheat and chaff: To mix a metaphore, one can also view it as baby and bathwater. There might be a "baby" in asking...

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Maybe we can explore the connections from another angle. I have and 0 RH Negative blood type. Recently a private e-mail from someone with eastern european Ashkenazi roots said that 0 RH Negative is a very common blood type for Jews from eastern europe. Are there any other 0- E3b's?

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Going back to the YHRD matches for Rossi:

Boy, does that Szczecin guy ever get around! He's one of only 3 matches for a global search of my Y-results, he's on an example of Haplotype #18 on the E3b page with a black backgroud and he's on Rossi's matches also.

These are...

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Excellent. A wonderful surprise.

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Here's the Haplotype section (without 4-step mutations)

E3b1
M35+ M78+ M96+ P2+ M107- M123- M136- M148- M165- M2- M281- M34- M81-
12 Marker Y-DNA Matches

Exact Matches

Haplogroup
Country
Comment
Count

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Here's what I have

This is my RAO list. My Haplotype section (which I don't show) has only one one-step mutation result and many more "Ashkenazi" under "comments." I think my list is pretty sparse compared to Jim's.

12 Marker Y-DNA Matches
Exact...

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It seems that E3b1 is a pretty universal European haplotype. This link http://vetinari.sitesled.com/slavic.pdf (chart of gene flow among slavic people) shows that E3b1 M78 is found in the highest percentage in Kosovar Albanians and Macedonian Romani. So far none of my specific RAO's have shown up as...

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Somewhere I read that over half of Jewish people today can trace their ancestry back to 4 women who lived a thousand or so years ago. If so many can come from so few in such a short abount of time, could a scenario like that have happened with Europe's E3b's?

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I don't know any of my relatives. I was adopted in Toronto (which has a large Jewish community). My RAO shows a one-step Ashkenazi match from Russia and others identified as Ashkenazi with 2 or more steps.

I asked the administrators of ftDNA point blank if I could have Jewish origins....

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There have been several Jewish diaspora events. I wonder which one the web site meant (or maybe a combination of all of them). The Babylonian captivity was a major one. Many Jews chose to stay in the Babylon area rather than go back to their homeland. Not enough Levites returned so the rules for priestly...

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I'll check it out again. I read several Velikovsky books when I was a teenager, prompted by a Reader's Digest book section excerpt. Since then my classic education, which taught me to first disbelieve and then "get to the bottom of things" didn't align too well with his teachings.

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I wanted to mention the above problem in archeology and Bible history just to show the challenge faced in any dating of the events of history. I don't count the documentary hypothesis and the historical-critical method as part of my belief system because of its implications. I go by the historical-grammatical...

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I didn't mention a time for when the move to North Africa came. It's interesting to note that Vandals from Sweden were also skulking about N. Africa around 2,000 years ago.

One reason I have reservations about dates beyond 6 or so thousand years ago is that physical evidence from things...