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>Very interesting (and news to me). As far as I knew the one at Newport,
>RI (along with the still active synagogue) were the oldest in the USA.
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It was news to me as well. That's why I would like to know if this guy was for
real or was just feeding me a lot of *********.
Thanks,
Cb.
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Article: 2857
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,sci.archaeology
From: [email protected] (seth.r.rosenthal)
Subject: Pre-Columbian Jews?
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1992 13:48:13 GMT
I found this in Tuesday's New York Times.
Extracted, from the middle of an article called "Case for Other Pre-
Columbian Voyagers" by John Noble Wilford.
"If the Japaneses found their way to the Zuni, could Jewish refugees
from the Roman Empire have made it to the eastern mountains of
Tennessee in the second century? At least that is the meaning a few
researchers read in an inscribed stone found a century ago with nine
skeletons in a burial mound at Bat Creek in Tennessee.
For years the inscription was interpreted as a message in Cherokee.
When Dr. Cyrus Gordon, retired professor of Mediterranean studies at
Brandeis University had a look, he decided the engraving was actually
in Hebrew and similar to writings found on Hebrew coins of the first
and second centuries. Carbon dating shows the burial took place
between the years 32 and 769.
At the conference, Dr. J. Huston McCulloch and economist at Ohio State
University who has beome a leading exponent of the Jewish connection
to Bat Creek, defended the stone's antiquity and the Jewish
interpretation against recent attacks by professional anthropologists.
He discounted the possibility of a hoax."
Kind of makes you want to say Hmmmm....
Seth Rosenthal
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| >>> At first the assumption was that this was an Indian burial ground,
>>> but the writing was later identified to be "old Hebrew".
Could the Cherokee be one of the lost tribes. If so then we should
claim ourselves a miniority (in the US) and open up a Casino in
Sharon Ma (where we make up the majority of the Town).
--- Just kidding --- %<)
On a Serious note, could those stones (tablets) have brought over
and buried by a jewish group (read sect) many years ago. If it is
old Hebrew writing the key may be in what they say.
morDECai
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