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2 May 2012, 10 Iyar 5772.
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1. Interesting Article
UNCOVERING SCANDINAVIAN ROOTS by Robert C. Boraker.
2. Interesting Pictures of Israelite, Judean, and Other Exiles Taken Away by Assyria.
3. Was there an Additional Exile of Ephraim to Egypt?
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1. Interesting Article UNCOVERING SCANDINAVIAN ROOTS By Robert C. Boraker http://www.ensignmessage.com/archives/scandinavianroots.html Extracts: UNCOVERING SCANDINAVIAN ROOTS By Robert C. Boraker WHO are the ancestors of today's Scandinavians? Extracts: Earlier at the end of the first century A.D., Tacitus wrote about people in Scandinavia. He called one of their tribes the Suiones. They were known for having powerful fleets. "The shape of their ships differs from the normal in having a prow at both ends which is always ready to be put into shore" (par. 44, Germania, Penguin Classics translation). That is an accurate description of the Viking longboat. ... The Suiones mentioned by Tacitus were also known as the Svear. The word Svear or Sviar is constantly used in the Nordic Sagas to denote the inhabitants of Sweden. ... The empire of the Svear was in the territory around Lake Malar near where Stockholm is today. This empire "was called the Lesser Svithiod, or Sweden, in contrast to the Larger Svithiod, or Scythia, from whence they had emigrated" (Vol.1, page 79, Scandinavia by Andrew Crichton and Henry Wheaton). Great Scythia was the area around the Black and Caspian Seas. When the Svear arrived in Scandinavia, they found the country already inhabited by "the Goths, who had emigrated thither at a remote period, veiled from the eyes of history," says Henry Wheaton in his book History of the Northmen. Paul Siding begins his history of Scandinavia by saying, "The present inhabitants of Denmark, as well as of Norway and Sweden, are successors of the enormous Gothic tribe formerly dwelling round about the Black Sea" (page 19, Scandinavian Races). Jordanes, the best known Gothic historian, always speaks of the Getae and Goths as one people. He also calls them "Scythae." "Strabo (vii, 2,2) informs us that the Cimbri were the same people called by the Greeks Cimmerii. Notice what Anderson's Royal Genealogies has to say about it: ... "The Cimbri were in time expelled by the Scythians, and wandering westward into Europe, after long travels arrived at this Chersonesus, called from them Cimbrica; and the Danes, called by Ptolemy Dauciones and Gutae, soon invaded that part of this peninsula, called from them Jutland to this day, and mixing with the Cimbri became one nation, called by the ancients all Cimbri in general" (page 415). For many years E. D. Phillips studied the history of the nomads in Scythia. He says the Cimmerians "appear late in the eighth century on the northern border of the Kingdom of Urartu as the Gimirrai or Gamir of Assyrian records" (page 52, The Royal Hordes, Nomad Peoples of the Steppes). Other historians agree that the Gimirrai were the "Kimmerioi" Cimmerians of the Greeks. There is also a connection with the biblical Gomer in Hosea's prophecy. Notice that the prophet Hosea married a woman called "Gomer" (Hosea 1:3). She represented the unfaithfulness and slavery of the ten tribes of the House of Israel (chapter 3). This prophecy indicates that the northern ten tribes of Israel would also be called "Gomer" while in captivity. The Israelites were actually known as Gomerians or Cimmerians. 2. Interesting Pictures of Israelite, Judean, and Other Exiles Taken Away by Assyria http://www.mamjo.com/forum/index.php/topic,451531.0.html
3. Was there an Additional Exile of Ephraim to Egypt? [Hosea 9:3] They shall not dwell in the LORDs land, But Ephraim shall return to Egypt, And shall eat unclean things in Assyria. Egypt and Assyria are recalled as places of Exile (cf. Hosea 8:13). Various verses indicate that a portion of the exiles returned to Egypt apart from those who went to Assyria. Radak (Kimchi): BUT EPHRAIM SHALL RETURN TO EGYPT. # Even though the Kingdom of Ephraim was sent into exile by the King of Assyria many amongst them, prior to the Assyrian Exile, went to Egypt due to the famine and disasters overtaking their own land. In addition there were small numbers of refugees from Ephraim amongst the remnants of Judah and Benjamin who moved to Egypt despite Jeremiah the Prophet having warned them not to.# |
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