| Title: | BAGELS and other things of Jewish interest |
| Notice: | 1.0 policy, 280.0 directory, 32.0 registration |
| Moderator: | SMURF::FENSTER |
| Created: | Mon Feb 03 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1524 |
| Total number of notes: | 18709 |
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| 1492.1 | the lost tribes | WRKSYS::RICHARDSON | Mon Feb 19 1996 19:44 | 8 | |
Nobody knows, so there isn't any official answer to what happened to
the lost tribes. There are plenty of more-or-less romantic theories
that various middle-asian peoples trace their ancestry from the lost
tribes. The most likely answer is that they assimilated into the
neighboring peoples and just disappeared as a distinct group. I
suppose that makes the various romantic tales have some credibility.
/Charlotte
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| 1492.2 | Here's what I know (which isn't much, really) | CADSYS::GROSS | The bug stops here | Tue Feb 20 1996 16:35 | 10 |
I have heard that converts to Judaism are possibly descended from the 10 lost tribes. That is supposed to explain how a convert could acquire a "Jewish soul"; that is s/he was born with it without knowing it. As far as I know, the two surviving tribes are Judah (from which the word "Jew" derives) and Levi. The Levites were scattered among all the other tribes, so some were lost and some were not. Dave | |||||