Brit-Am Now"- 452
1. Virgin Islands also British!
2. Brit-Am Movie Projects
3. Brit-Am Annual Major Meeting
4. DNA confusion? Wales and Ireland
5. Source on British "Celts"
6. Comment on Individual Tribal Identification at the present time
7. Psalms 20
1. Virgin Islands also British!
From: Joan Griffith
Subject: RE: "Brit-Am Now"-451--British Commonwealth
item 1. Bob Davis: Extant of British Empire
Yair,
What do you know!! He left out the British Virgin Islands.
Joan
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a
trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Neils Bohr
2. Brit-Am Movie Projects
RE: "Brit-Am Now"-451
item 6. DVDs and Videos
Results of query:
(a) Not simple. Different types of video and DVD exist between Europe
and the USA: Israel uses the European type.
(b) It would be Much More expensive than we thought to produce our own
productions.
Even if we had the necessary budget or even part of it we have other needs
and priorities.
(c) Received contacts from Bob Davis that we will follow up of people who
may be interested in producing their
own program about Brit-Am.
(d) Our friend Raymond Lee interested the producer of a British Christian
TV show to do a program on our
annual Brit-Am meeting at Succot. It seems reasonably certain that the
production will take place but a final
decision in this regard from the producer has not yet been received by us.
(e) At some stage, as an experiment, we may have an outside
body produce two Brit-Am DVDs that we will
sell or otherwise distribute to our subscribers.
3. Brit-Am Annual Major Meeting
At Succoth in the Mount Zion Hotel, Jerusalem
as Part of Rick Richardon' s CRMI program
4. DNA confusion? Wales and Ireland
We gave our own opinions in the past concerning the value of DNA studies
and for the time being have decided to let the matter lie at least until
somebody
else comes up with a scientifically-acceptable paper justifying our position.
Recently several people have sent me an article saying that the British Celts
are in a DNA sense the same as the Galicians from Northwest Spain. This is
not a new idea.
It has been going around for some time. I do not know if what the
explanation for
the sudden enthusiasm over its "rediscovery" is. This incidentally helps
strengthen our
explanation of a migration path from Northwest Spain to Celtic Britain.
The article in question is below. Read it through and then refer to the
other article we quote from
which says that the evidence quoted only refers to the male population and
not to the female one.
See our commentary at the end of this article, Brit-Am Comment: ON THE
OTHER HAND:
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/23762.html
We are not Celts at all but Galicians
-------------------------------------
BRIAN DONNELLY
September 10 2004
CELTIC nations such as Scotland and Ireland have more in common with the
Portuguese and Spanish than with the Celts of central Europe, according
to a new academic report.
Historians have long believed that the British Isles were swamped by a
massive invasion of Iron Age Celts from central Europe around 500BC.
However, geneticists at Trinity College in Dublin now claim that the
Scots and Irish have more in common with the people of north-western
Spain.
Dr Daniel Bradley, genetics lecturer at Trinity College, said a new
study into Celtic origins revealed close affinities with the people of
Galicia.
He said: "It's well-known that there are cultural relations between the
areas but now this shows there is much more. We think the links are much
older than that of the Iron Age because it also shows affinities with
the Basque region, which isn't a Celtic region."
He added: "The links point towards other Celtic nations, in particular
Scotland, but they also point to Spain."
Historians believed the Celts, originally Indo-European, invaded the
Atlantic islands in a massive migration 2500 years ago.
But using DNA samples from people living in Celtic nations and other
parts of Europe, geneticists at the university have drawn new parallels.
Dr Bradley said it was possible migrants moved from the Iberian
peninsula to Ireland as far back as 6000 years ago up until 3000 years
ago.
"I don't agree with the idea of a massive Iron Age invasion that took
over the Atlantic islands. You can regard the ocean, rather than a
barrier, as a communication route," Dr Bradley said.
Archaeologists have also been questioning the links between the Celts of
eastern France and southern Germany and the people of the British Isles
and the new research appears to prove their theories.
The Dublin study found that people in areas traditionally known as
Celtic, such as Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Brittany and Cornwall, had
strong links with each other and had more in common with people from the
Iberian peninsula.
It also found people in Ireland have more in common with Scots than any
other nation.
"What we would propose is that this commonality among the Atlantic
facade is much older, 6000 years ago or earlier," Dr Bradley added.
There are also close links between Scotland and Ireland dating back much
further than the plantations of the 1600s when many Scots moved to
Northern Ireland in search of fertile farming lands, the research
showed.
However, the researchers could not determine whether fair skin,
freckles, red hair and fiery tempers truly are Celtic traits.
Stephen Oppenheimer, professor of clinical socio-medical sciences at
Oxford, said that the Celts of western Scotland, Wales, Ireland and
Cornwall were descended from an ancient people living on the Atlantic
coast when Britain was still attached to mainland Europe, while the
English were more closely related to the Germanic peoples of the
interior.
He said: "The English are the odd ones out because they are the ones
more linked to continental Europe. The Scots, the Irish, the Welsh and
the Cornish are all very similar in their genetic pattern to the
Basque."
The study headed by Dr Bradley was published in the American Journal of
Human Genetics.
Brit-Am Comment:
ON THE OTHER HAND:
"Genetic Evidence for different male and female roles during
cultural transitions in the British Isles
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/98/9/5078.pdf
this paper repeats the assertion that Welsh and Irish Y (Male) DNA
is identical to that of the Basques in the Galicia region of Spain
BUT IT ALSO mentions other results (and provides charts)
such as
the female (mtDNA) results of Ireland and Wales are quite distant from
those of the Basques but close to those of Norway and Friesland.
Another parameter (microsatellites on the X chromosome) also
showed Wales and Norway to be almost identical but quite distant from
the Basque region.
Are DNA experts implying:
(a) Wales and Eire were originally populated by a Norwegian type people.
Along came Basque males, killed all the men and took the women?
(b) Wales and Ireland were originally populated by Basques. Along came
hordes of Viking
female amazons, wiped out all the wives and daughters, then forced the men
to marry them?
(c) Some other explanation?
5. Source on British "Celts"
The source below contains interesting information and viewpoints.
We do not necessarily agree with any of the conclusions but we enjoyed
glancing over it and it could contain useful research leads.
THE HISTORY OF THE SCOTS, THE PICTS AND THE BRITONS
DAVID F. DALE
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/DavidDale1/Part_3.htm
6. Comment on Individual Tribal Identification at the present time:
Brit-Am believes that a definite tribal identification for each individual
or family group will be provided by the Messiah or by a process associated
with him.
Nevertheless we also believe that we are drawing closer to the Messianic
Era and aspects
of this period are already coming into play.
This explains why many Lost Israelites feel a need to affirm their Hebrew roots
and also seek knowledge of their ancestry.
Some have reached a realization that they belong to specific Israelite Tribes.
We would be inclined with reservations to consider these feelings justified
and possibly correct.
if the phenomenon is to be encouraged, discouraged, or disregarded is
another question.
The fact is that most people who delve into Brit-Am type studies
develop some kind of instinctive identification along these lines.
7. Psalms 20
TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN, A SONG OF DAVID
<<OF DAVID>>: Hebrew "le-David" Avraham Iben-Ezra points out that this can
also be understand to mean "for David", "on behalf of David". The song was
sung on behalf of David when he went out to war. There are those that say
that it refers to the Messiah. May he be answered by the Almighty at time
of trouble in war (Iben Ezra).
[Psalms 20:1] THE LORD HEAR THEE IN THE DAY OF TROUBLE; THE NAME OF THE GOD
OF JACOB DEFEND THEE;
Iben Ezra (1080-1164 CE) says this Psalm is bein g expressed from the
point of view of the warriors of David (or of the Messiah) who go out with
him to war.
Iben Ezra was borne in Spain and during his lifetime traveled in France,
Italy, North Africa, Egypt, the Land of Israel, and reached India. Towards
the end of his life he settled in England and apparently died there. One
report says he was killed by a "wild mob", whatever that means.
"Deconstructing the Bible. Abraham Ibn Ezra's Introduction to the Torah,"
by Irene Lancaster, London 2003 (p.17): <<One of the most puzzling
questions in Jewish intellectual history is why Ibn Ezra should have come
to England? The answer may well lie in the contemporary cultural and
financial links between the Jews of Normandy and England described above.
However, other reasons may well have been equally important for Ibn Ezra.
In many ways England could be considered as prime virgin territory for the
implanting of Sephardic [i.e. Spanish Jewish] cultural seeds at the end of
one man's very long life. In those days 'Angleterre' was regarded as being
at the 'edge of the earth', and was therefore of great interest to someone
of Ibn Ezra's evangelical and messianic mentality>>.
[Psalms 20:2] SEND THEE HELP FROM THE SANCTUARY, AND STRENGTHEN THEE OUT OF
ZION;
[Psalms 20:3] REMEMBER ALL THY OFFERINGS, AND ACCEPT THY BURNT SACRIFICE;
SELAH.
[Psalms 20:4] GRANT THEE ACCORDING TO THINE OWN HEART, AND FULFIL ALL THY
COUNSEL.
Radak quotes [Proverbs 24:6]: " FOR BY WISE COUNSEL THOU SHALT MAKE THY
WAR".
[Psalms 20:5] WE WILL REJOICE IN THY SALVATION, AND IN THE NAME OF OUR GOD
WE WILL SET UP OUR BANNERS: THE LORD FULFIL ALL THY
PETITIONS.
[Psalms 20:6] NOW KNOW I THAT THE LORD SAVETH HIS ANOINTED; HE WILL HEAR
HIM FROM HIS HOLY HEAVEN WITH THE SAVING STRENGTH OF HIS RIGHT HAND.
<<FROM HIS HOLY HEAVEN>>: From the place that is beyond the way of
nature (Malbim). The Almighty manages this world through natural causes
but he is not confined by them.
[Psalms 20:7] SOME TRUST IN CHARIOTS, AND SOME IN HORSES: BUT WE WILL
REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE LORD OUR GOD.
Those who trust in their military equipment and forces will be beaten but
we will win because we trust in God Almighty (S.R. Hirsch).
[Psalms 20:8] THEY ARE BROUGHT DOWN AND FALLEN: BUT WE ARE RISEN, AND STAND
UPRIGHT.
[Psalms 20:9] SAVE, LORD: LET THE KING HEAR US WHEN WE CALL.
God is our king. He rules over us and we are his subjects. He will hear
us.
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