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8 december 2009, 11 Kislev 5769
Contents:
1. UN
Witchunt
After Israel: Heathen Nations Hungry for Blood
2. Many Captive Jews in Spain or Simply Phoenicians, Arabs, and Others?
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of
Explorator
11.33
1.UN
Witchunt
After Israel: Heathen Nations Hungry for Blood
UN's obsession is grotesque and Orwellian
By Jeff Jacoby
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/jeff/jacoby120508.php3
Extract:
THE PRESIDENT of the UN General Assembly, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann of
Nicaragua, has denounced the policies of a certain Middle Eastern nation. They
are "so similar to the apartheid of an earlier era," he said, "that the world
must unite against them, demanding an "end to this massive abuse of human
rights" and isolating the offending nation as it once isolated South Africa:
with a punishing "campaign of boycott, divestment, and sanctions."
Of which country was he speaking?
For more see URL:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/jeff/jacoby120508.php3
2. Many Captive Jews in Spain or Simply
Phoenicians, Arabs, and Others?
From: Joan Griffith
Hi,
This is a blog on the Middle East. Cole is head of some institute.
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(??joke, joke) or just as a group or blog.
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Juan Cole <jricole@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:02 AM
Subject: [infoco] [Informed Comment] Spanish Arab and Jewish Genetic Heritage
Geneticists are now estimating that the Spanish Inquisition led to large amounts
of intermarriage between nominally converted Muslims and Jews with Catholics in
Spain after 1492.
From that date, the Spanish state forbade all religions but orthodox Catholicism
in Spain, making Jews and Christians who chose to remain convert.
A new study finds that 1 in 10 of Spanish men has haplotypes (genetic patterns)
on the y chromosome identical with that of North Africans (i.e. Moroccans,
Algerians, Tunisians). And this study suggests that 1 in 5 have haplotypes
identical with Jewish males.
The evidence with regard to Spanish women is inconclusive. (This article doesn't
seem to realize it, but this is because only a minority of Jewish women have
'Palestinian' patterns in their mitochondrial DNA; male Jewish merchant
communities established around the Mediterranean from about the 800s AD took
local wives and converted them, so the majority of Jewish women don't have
distinctive genetic markers.)
I'm not so sure that the Inquisition can explain these results, since the
numbers seem incommensurate with the result.
There were about 100,000 Marranos or forcibly-converted Jews in Spain after 1492
(many Iberian Jews fled to Holland, North Africa or Istanbul to retain their
faith).
There were initially some 315,000 Moriscoes or forcibly-converted Muslims in the
1500s. But at the beginning of the 1600s, these were expelled, as well. By 1609
it is estimated that all but 10,000 to 15,000 of these Catholic secret Muslims
had been expelled (France, Italy, and North Africa were the major destinations
of the victims of this ethnic cleansing).
Spain's population in the 1500s was about 8 million.
So I don't see how 50,000 Marranos males could produce a situation where 1/5 of
the present-day male population is descended from them. And, the huge Arab and
Berber population of medieval Spain and even the 300,000 there in the 1500s,
with whom there would have been intermarriage, should have left a larger genetic
heritage in Spain than just 1/10. Moreover, I would challenge the idea that most
of the mixing only came after the conversions post-1492. People sleep with each
other across cultural boundaries and don't tell the historians about it. And,
people convert from Islam to Catholicism and pretend they'd always been
Catholics, something that could have been going on surreptitiously all through
the centurie of the Reconquista.
Anyway, the haplotypes distinctive to Sephardic Jews are indistinguishable from
those of Palestinians and Lebanese. So my guess is that the geneticists are
finding descendants from the Phoenicians and from Arab populations that invaded
North Africa and then Spain, along with descendants of Jews.
Work on the genetic history of the Phoenicians in the Mediterranean is now also
being pursued.
--
Posted By Juan Cole to Informed Comment at 12/05/2008 12:02:00 AM
Joan
Where love rules, there is no will to
power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of
the other. ~ C. G. Jung
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of
Explorator
11.33
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 11.33 December 7, 2008
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Another high tech look at the DSS:
http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3491&Itemid=2
... somewhat similar:
http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/16020.html
A Byzantine-era bathhouse from Zikhron Ya?aqov:
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1447&module_id=#as
A report on the 2008 excavations at Old Nisa:
http://parthia.com/nisa/nisa2008.htm
... and Khuzistan:
http://parthia.com/khuzistan/
More coverage of the Khirbet Qeiyafa excavations:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601104&sid=agxYhKgpSBws
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A study of stalagmites in a Jerusalem cave is being used to link
climate change to the decline of the Roman Empire:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081204/sc_nm/us_climate_cave_1
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4b35zo-us-climate-cave/
Not sure how 'new' this is, but we appear to have more precise
dating for the Thera eruption:
http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7093622&maindocimg=1564949&service=100
Fair bit of coverage of the 'first credit crunch' in 88 B.C.:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/nov/28/credit-crunch-roman-republic-lecture
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/worlds-first-credit-crunch-may-have-occurred-in-88-bc_100125631.html
Visit our blog:
http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A Bronze age amber necklace from Mellor:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7758075.stm
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1603468/rare_necklace_is_found_in_north_west_england/index.html
Not sure where to classify this rock-cut tomb from Malta find:
http://www.di-ve.com/Default.aspx?ID=72&Action=1&NewsID=56589&newscategory=36
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20081207/local/ancient-rock-cut-tombs-discovered-near-bulebel
The search is on for a treasure-laden Armada shipwreck:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/07/scotland-divers-armada-treasure
Review of Piers Brendon, *The Decline and Fall of the British
Empire*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/books/review/Wheatcroft-t.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A petroglyph might be evidence of a hitherto unknown species of
bat (reading a lot into this one, no?):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/7765136.stm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Joseph Smith's journals are being published:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081202/ap_on_re_us/mormon_press
Interviewish sort of thing with James McPherson about Lincoln
during wartime:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/books/22linc.html
Interesting slave-trade database project:
http://www.wcbs880.com/topic/ap_news.php?story=AP/APTV/National/a/a/SlaveryDatabase
Review of George Herring, *From Colony to Superpower*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/books/24fren.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Dental evidence suggests ancient folk in Peru ate well:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081201200121.htm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/02/teeth-peru-diet.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-12/stri-efd120108.php
http://www.physorg.com/news147374126.html
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2008/12/01/7600746-ap.html
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081202/lima_peru_081202/20081202
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/12/02/Ancient_teeth_suggest_Peruvians_ate_well/UPI-56831228241812/
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/sciencemedicine/story/2DA71FA26FD761E98625751400057917?OpenDocument
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081201/ap_on_sc/sci_ancient_teeth;_ylt=AhNeu33l5WuE0q_h2Wib5nQiANEA
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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This week's DNA focus looks at the Etruscans (but seems to have
some dating problems?):
http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/ejhg2008224a.html
... and the Moors left their DNA traces on the Iberian Peninsula:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5289283.ece
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/05/healthscience/05genes.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/science/05genes.html
A bit out of our time period, but a nice use of ground penetrating
radar to find some WWII graves:
http://www.military.com/news/article/searchers-say-139-marine-graves-found.html?col=1186032325324&ESRC=dod.nl
... and a bit out of our subject matter, but folks might be interested
in the origins of the cold virus:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081120073115.htm
... and the water levels in Venice:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7758831.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-EU-Italy-Venice-High-Water.html
Review of five tomes debunking 'pseudohistory':
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122853070522984883.html
Review of Barry Cunliffe, *Europe Between the Oceans*:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200812/editors-choice
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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Tel Kadesh:
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog
Tel Dan:
http://teldan.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Nice OpEd piece on some recent high-profile forgery cases in Israel:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2005/jan/20/heritage.museums
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