"Brit-Am Now"-983
Contents:
1. BAMBI and The Psalms
(a) very good commentary
(b) "refreshing and comfortable"
(c) Your delivery sounds 'unscripted'
2. Brit-Am Survey: First Question
3. Archaeological Works Confirm Brit-Am Migratory Routes
4. Was Zebulon to become a "Haven" or not?
5. Should Brit-Am Concentrate Only On, or at least more on, Judah?
6. Renewed Article: "The First Five Books of the Book"
7. Need for List of Identity Groups that are OK and PhD Thesis
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1. BAMBI and The
Psalms
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(a) very good
commentary
From: Cam Rea
Subject: Psalms
Shalom Mr. Davidiy. I hope all is well with you and
your family.
I have been listing to your Psalms commentary this
Sabbath. This is very good commentary on the book. I'm
looking forward to more of it.
May the Almighty bless you and your family and cover
Israel with his word.
Cam Rea
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(b) "refreshing
and comfortable"
Greetings Yair, I finally got around to listening to 'Bambi' and
agree heartily with Les Ward. The informal atmosphere of your discussion was
refreshing and comfortable. Like friends when they sit down to talk something
over....Thanks. Sally
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(c) Your delivery
sounds 'unscripted'
Dear Yair
As I have been involved in, and ran my own recording studio for many years, I
believe I am qualified to offer this advice regarding the commentaries on the
Psalms.
Your delivery sounds 'unscripted'. You should write down the scripts and read
from them. If you make a mistake or 'fumble' or hesitate, you should stop the
tape and re-record the offending passage. This might take longer, but a clearer
and better outcome will ensue.
Hope this helps
Shalom
Dennis McGinlay
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2. Brit-Am Survey:
First Question
Received ca. 85 answers.
http://www.britam.org/Survey.html
The answers with summaries and our commentary
will be given in stages.
At present a list of the answers to Question no.1
("How did you first hear about Brit-Am? ")
may be seen.
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3. Archaeological
Works Confirm Brit-Am Migratory Routes
Brit-Am Purchased the following works:
"The Rise of Bronze Age Society. Travels, Transmissions and
Transformation" by Kristian Kristiansen and Thomas B. Larsson, Cambridge, 2005
"Europe Before History" by Kristian Kristiansen, Cambridge, 1998
These are somewhat technical works on Archaeology.
[For serious reading one is advised to skip most of the first part
which is designed for scholars and from our point of view does not say that
much].
The chronology used is in our opinion mistaken at times.
Apart from that these works affirm strong cultural connections in ancient times
between Western Europe (including Scandinavia) and the Eastern Mediterranean
including the areas of Ancient Israel.
In their own way and in the light of supplementary explanations supplied by
Brit-Am
these works help confirm the Brit-Am Routes of Migration.
For a Map and List of Israelite Migratory Routes see:
http://www.britam.org/Questions/QuesHistory.html#Migratory
Some of the evidence provided is very strong and interesting.
A Review of these works is in progress.
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4. Was Zebulon to
become a "Haven" or not?
Question: Writers who knew of the Brit-Am identification of
Holland with Zebulon,
in some cases before ever hearing of Brit-Am, apply the King James description
of Zebulon
as a "haven" to Holland in Historical Times.
Holland indeed served as a place of refuge for many of the oppressed including
Jews from Spain and Portugal,
Puritans and other Nonconformists from Britain, Anabaptists from Germany, and
Huguenots from
France.
Compare the following extract from the Wikipedia article:
"History of the Netherlands"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Netherlands#Struggle_for_independence_and_the_Golden_Age
<<Many immigrants came to the cities of the province Holland in the 17th and
18th century, especially from Protestant parts of Germany. The amount of first
generation immigrants from outside the Netherlands in Amsterdam was nearly 50%
in the 17th and 18th century. If you add immigrants from the second and third
generation and immigrants from the Dutch countryside, then the city was mainly
inhabited by immigrants. People in most parts of Europe were very poor, and
there was a lot of unemployment. But in Amsterdam there was always work.
Tolerance was important, because a continuous influx of immigrants was necessary
for the economy. Travellers were surprised that the police didn't control them
in Amsterdam. The Netherlands also sheltered many famous refugees, including
Flemish Protestants; Portuguese and German Jews; French Protestants (Huguenots);
the founder of modern philosophy, Descartes; and, temporarily, the Pilgrim
Fathers, who were to become symbols for the US tradition of republicanism.>>
The King James indeed describes Zebulon as a "haven".
[Genesis 49:13] ZEBULUN SHALL DWELL AT THE HAVEN OF THE SEA; AND HE SHALL BE FOR
AN HAVEN OF SHIPS; AND HIS BORDER SHALL BE UNTO ZIDON.
The problem is that Brit-Am interprets the Hebrew word "chof" (pronounceable
like "hof")
to mean "shores" and not haven.
Does this mean that the traditional and most appropriate description of Zebulon
in Holland
as become a "haven" should be abandoned?
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Answer:
Holland is indeed a haven.
Holland (The Netherlands) is also Zebulon dwelling on the "Shores of the Sea".
cf. the Brit-Am Commentary to Genesis 49:13
http://britam.org/Genesis/Gen47to50VaYechi.html
See The Tribes: Zebulon = Holland.
THE HAVEN OF THE SEA in Hebrew Chof Yamim meaning at the seashores or at the
shore of the seas. I/3 of Holland is below sea-level, another 1/3 is subject to
periodic sea-flooding, i.e. 2/3 of the country is dwelling on the shores of the
sea. This is the only country in the world where this holds true. In Ancient
Times a people called Sabulingoi dwelt in the region of Northern Holland.
Sabulingoi in Hebrew means People of Zebulon. Northern peoples at that time
switched "s" for "z".
In Hebrew the word translated in the King James as "haven" is
"chof" (pronounceable like "hof") which means "Sea-Shore"
and in the formulation given "hof-hayamim" it may be understood to say
"shores-of the-sea" in Biblical Hebrew or in Modernized Hebrew
"Shore-of-the-Seas". Both descriptions are appropriate to the Netherlands
and ONLY TO THEM!
How then did the King James come to make such a mistake?
We do not really know.
it may be that they relied on an earlier translation that in turn was guided by
a
Rabbinical Midrash that has since been lost to us.
According to Matityahu Clark ("Etymological Disctionary of Biblical Hebrew")
Rabbi S.R. Hirsch would relate the Hebrew word "chof" (pronounceable like "hof")
to a root "cH-F-A" and cH-F-H". This gives us a Chof meaning "clear" and thus
"shore"
i.e. a clear area on the edge of the sea. It is also related to words meaning
"secret. surround, cover, hide, protect, etc."
It thus could have a SECONDARY MEANING as "haven".
The origin of the English word "haven" is unknown but it is supposed to be
related
to the Germanic "haefen" connoting "hold, holding".
It could also be derived directly from the Hebrew "CHOF" since this word could
be pronounced
similarly to "hof" and the "f" and "v" in Germanic tongues were interchangeable
e.g. the German "von" is actually pronounced as "fon".
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5. Should Brit-Am
Concentrate Only On, or at least more on, Judah?
Question: Every now and again someone comes up with a remark to
the effect that Brit-Am
is wasting its goal and should direct itself solely to Judah or at least
concentrate on Judah.
What is your reply?
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Answer: The way Brit-Am is going is, as far as we can tell, in accordance with
Divine Providence.
We need to greatly increase our outreach in the present direction NOT
diminish it. Our present constituency has a need for us
and we have a need for them.
We will continue to serve them and endeavor to reach others like
themselves.
This we believe may enable us in the future to reach out to Judah more strongly
and from a sounder foundation.
Apart from that we do at present reach out to Judah to some degree and there are
Jews amongst Brit-Am supporters.
We also have projects in various stages of preparation to increase our outreach
to Judah.
Our main constricting factor in this direction at present is a lack of funds.
They who want us to reach out more to Judah should therefore be prepared to help
provide the financial means.
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6. Renewed
Article: "The First Five Books of the Book"
"THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE
http://britam.org/genesis.html
Brit-Am Identity Points on the Five Books of Moses Summarized"
previously titled,
"Genesis. The End of the Beginning"
This is an old article but we have changed it a little.
It is in our opinion much worth seeing.
Chances are most of you never read it or if you did would still enjoy
seeing it again.
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7. Need for List
of Identity Groups that are OK and PhD Thesis
From: Jonathan Tillotson
Subject: Re: "Brit-Am Now"-980
Thanks for the list of the anti-semitic identity groups. Good to hear they are
dwindling, or going pagan at least. I wonder if a similar list could be
compiled, or has been compiled, of groups, that believe in a variant of the Brit
Am message and are not Anti-Jewish.
Also, Yair, are you aware of any recent published academic work, or PHD's on
this issue? Or is it a subject that universites would not favour promoting
research into, for whatever reason.
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Reply:
Chances are that a list such as you mention exists.
If not one should be compiled.
We could probably use it as well.
As for PHD theses on this issue there probably are works that talk around it.
Here too, we would also be interested.
One problem with this subject (as I mentioned to you in private conversation)
is that it is difficult to classify.
In the National Library in Jerusalem there exist a large number of publications
dealing
with the Lost Ten Tribes.
They are classified under "Folk Lore".
This belief of ours does indeed include some "folk lore"
but we feel it should be an important aspect of
Bible Study, History, Geopolitics, etc.
As long as it is classified as only "folk lore" I would imagine that there would
be
less support than otherwise for a PHD thesis but one never knows.
God bless you
Yair Davidiy
on behalf of
Brit-Am
Jerusalem
Israel
