THE TRUE ROOTS AND ORIGIN OF THE SCOTS – (1)

By C.M.W.

A research summary and pointers toward further research

“Wherever the pilgrim turns his feet, he finds Scotsmen in the forefront of civilization and letters. They are the premiers in every colony, professors in every university, teachers, editors, lawyers, engineers and merchants- everything, and always at the front.” – English writer Sir Walter Besant

“The mystery of Keltic thought has been the despair of generations of philosophers and aesthetes … He who approaches it must, I feel, not alone be of the ancient stock … but he must also have heard since childhood the deep and repeated call of ancestral voices urging him to the task of the exploration of the mysteries of his people …He is like a man with a chest of treasure who has lost the key”

(The Mysteries of Britain by L Spence)

INTRODUCTORY  REMARKS

Who really are the Scottish peoples? What is their origin? Do tradition, national characteristics and emblems assist? Why are they such great leaders, administrators and inventors? Is there a connection between them and the ancient Biblical tribe of Judah?

Why did the British Empire succeed when other Empires did not? Was it a blessing in fulfillment of prophecies such as that in Gen 12:3? Why were the Scots so influential in the Empire, way beyond their population numbers?

Today book after book; article after article; universities, politicians, social workers spread lies about the British Empire, denigrating it.

It seems that every second movie or television programme is laced with anti-British racism. White men with accents that are clearly English or other British accent, are almost always the ‘baddies’, inculcating hatred for White males and British in among all age groups and particularly the young.

What evil incites such hatred and bitterness? For it is utterly unjustified.

Now that the Empire was destroyed despite the finest efforts by Churchill, the world is a worse place.

But has the world learned its lesson? Does it have the humility to accept that the Empire was overwhelmingly positive and uplifting and light years ahead of any comparative empire during its time and any other in world history? Does the world need the British Empire again? Or is its nemesis, the United Nations, doing a better job at world order than the Empire?

Will the Empire be revived? If so, how?

Some have been proclaiming many rival New World Orders, all competing and hating one another. Yet a New World Order will arise- the one that will be ushered in by Jesus Christ Himself in astonishing fashion. He will set up His people to rule the world for peace, prosperity and order under Him as we shall see.

Lord Curzon stated that:

“The British Empire is under Providence the greatest instrument for good that the world has seen”.

South African Prime Minister General Smuts declared that the Empire was:

“the widest system of organized human freedom which has ever existed in human history”.

Cecil Rhodes could also see that the British Empire should be extended to encapsulate the world. He established the Rhodes Scholarships programme to become  “a society of the elect for the good of the Empire” with the entirety of the African continent coming under British rule. For the British were “the first race in the world, and the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race”. He even spoke openly of “the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire”.

Such noble dreams were not to be this side of the return of Christ to the earth.

Niall  Ferguson in  his  magnificent  work  Empire. How  Britain made  the  Modern  World asserts:

“The British Empire was the nearest thing there has ever  been to a world government. Yet its mode of operation was a triumph of minimalism. To govern a population of hundreds of millions, the Indian Civil Service had a maximum strength of little more than 1,000 …

“For better or worse – fair and foul – the world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain’s age of Empire. (1)   [emphasis mine]

In the Conclusion, Ferguson states:

“In truth, the imperial legacy has shaped the modern world so profoundly that we almost take it for granted.

Without the spread of British rule around the world, it is hard to believe that the structures of liberal capitalism would have been so successfully established in so many economies around the world … India, the world’s largest democracy,  owes  more  than it is  fashionable to  acknowledge  to British rule.”(2)

Keith Windschuttle, a noted moderate scholar and author confirms that the Empire was positive for the native peoples:

“In short, the transition to independence of a sizable part of the empire was a badly handled mess. Much of the blame for this lies with those critics of imperialism, in both the metropolis and the colonies, who were more concerned to end its rule quickly rather than wisely, and who were even less concerned that the boundaries of several new states saddled them with problems that were unresolvable except by violence. The Oxford history makes clear that, before the rush to disband it, British imperial rule in many parts of Asia, Africa, and the Americas, while it might not have been representative or democratic, was nonetheless orderly, largely benign, and usually fair. For all their faults, most British colonial officials delivered good government-or at least better government than any of the likely alternatives. The lives of millions of ordinary people in these countries would have been much happier had the British stayed longer, that is, until a more satisfactory path to independence and a more sensible map of territorial boundaries had been drawn up. Indeed, the uncivilized conditions in which many people in the old imperial realm now live is evidence that the world would be a better place today if some parts of it were still ruled by the British Empire.”(3)  [emphasis mine]

How does this impact upon our quest on the Scots and their origin?

Answer: the Scots are the most inventive people on earth and practically ran the British Empire! (4)

When one considers the nature and character of the Scots, one is left a little bewildered. How can such a country, so poor and sometimes mistreated, be also the source of the bulk of major inventions and institutions of the entire world? How can these people be such great administrators, leaders and businessmen?

Truly the Scots are an enigma, brother to the English, yet antagonisms naturally persist between these two peoples. Why?

Books such as

• God‘s Frontiersmen. The Scots-Irish Epic;
• The Scottish Empire;
• When Scotland Ruled the World. The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration;
• How the Scots Invented the Modern World: the True Story of How Western Europe‘s Poorest Nation Created our World and Everything in it

– are eye-popping revelations as to the incredible capacity of these people.

This paper is neither a chatty work designed for mere reading pleasure. Nor is it written in an  academic  style. Rather,  it  is  mainly  assembling  my  research  and  thoughts  and presenting them in a fashion for further study and research by others to build upon. Much of my papers on the www.originotnations.org  website are written in that way.

Further, I don’t like rehashing what others have written. Either my works have to be unique; fill in gaps of other works; or value-add in some way to a doctrine or theory.

That is the way that this paper is presented and I trust will be of benefit to the reader.

This article is written from a position that the Scots are primarily descended from Judah, representing a branch of Judah along with the Jews.

We do not discredit other ideas about Lowlander Scottish descent from Manasseh or that the Scots in general descend from Asher or Gad. Most certainly they are not descendants of Chaldeans which Waddell and others assert. However, that there is genetic infusion from other tribes cannot be denied. But overall they are very much Keltic and direct descendants of Judah in the main as this paper sets out to prove.

“How an archipelago of rainy islands off the north-west coast of Europe came to rule the world is one of the fundamental questions not just of British but of world history … It was not conceived by self-conscious imperialists, aiming to establish English rule over foreign lands, or colonists hoping to build a new life overseas”.(5)

“What is less clear is why this expansion [of the Empire] occurred. There never was a plan for imperial expansion … there seemed little need actually to conquer more territory”(6)

ANCIENT JUDAH

To commence  this section, we should incorporate an overview of the descendants  of Judah via  a  family  tree. Below  we  trace  his  immediate   descendants   who  are  important  to remember in our quest for Judaic migrations.

Note what the scriptures reveal about his descendants in I Chron 2:3-15:

‘The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born unto him of Shua’s daughter the Canaanitess. And Er, Judah’s first-born, was wicked in the sight of Jehovah; and he slew him. And Tamar his daughter-in-law bare him Perez  and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five. The sons of Perez: Hezron, and Hamul. And the sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol,  and  Dara; five of them in all. And the sons of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the devoted thing. And the sons of Ethan: Azariah. The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him: Jerahmeel, and Ram. and Chelubai. And Ram begat Amminadab, and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah; and Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse; and Jesse begat his first-born Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third, Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, Ozem the sixth, David the seventh.”

JUDAH

Shelah                                           Zarah                                           Pharez

Er                             Calcol                          Darda                            Jesse

Judah‘s immediate descendants

What of Judah’s  descendants  which  are  listed  in the aforementioned family  tree?  Now, Judah had five sons:

Er, Onan and Shelah  born from the daughter of Shuah the Canaanite (Gen 38:2-5). Er and Onan died but Shelah had a son named Er.

The other  two sons, Zarah  and  Pharez, were  twins born of Tamar, his daughter-in-law. Pharez means “breach” and is indicates the great rivalry that emerged between the lines of Zarah and Pharez with Pharez gaining the primogeniture per the description in Gen 38:28-30- this will be discussed in more detail later in this paper.

Although Shelah was the firstborn, he was rejected (cp Gen 24:3, 37; Deut 7:1-6; 20:16-18).

Due to the failure of his older brothers and because of his capacity and character, Judah came to be the leader in Israel. From that line comes the Messiah and famous Bible names such as Caleb, Ruth, David, Solomon, Hezekiah, Josiah and Zerubbabel.

“For Judah prevailed among his brothers, and from him came the chief ruler [the royal line of David which includes the Messiah, but also political and military leaders], but the birthright was Joseph’s.” (I Chron 5:2)

Why does the account in the Bible extend Zarah’s genealogy only to the third generation? Could it be that they had left the area for Ireland? Were these the Milesians which may have sprung from Mahol?

ZARAH

Zimri              Ethan         Heman          Calcol            Darda

Zarah‘s immediate descendants

Note what is revealed in I Chron 2:3-15:

“The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him. And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five. The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul. And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of  them in all.   And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.   And the sons of Ethan; Azariah. The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.   And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah; And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,   And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse, And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,  Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, Ozem the sixth, David the seventh.”

When the tribes of Israel settled down in the Promised Land, Judah occupied the southern regions with Simeon close to Dan, Ephraim and Benjamin. Perhaps, should we locate the Pharez/Zarah branch of Judah today, we might find a similar configuration?

To  understand  who  and  what  is  Judah,  we  need  to  examine  various key  Scriptures pertaining to this tribe, which portray something about its character and role, viz:

Deu 33:7  And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, Jehovah, the voice of Judah, And bring him in unto his people. With his hands he contended for himself; And thou shalt be a help against his adversaries.

Jdg 20:18  And the sons of Israel rose and went up to the house of God and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of  us shall go up first  to the battle against the sons of Benjamin? And Jehovah said, Judah first. [see Deut 33:7]

2 Ch 9:8  Blessed be Jehovah your God, who delighted in you to set you on His throne to be king for Jehovah your God. Because your God loved Israel to establish  them forever,  therefore He  made  you king  over  them  to  do judgment and justice.

1 Ch 29:23  And Solomon sat  on the throne  of Jehovah as king in place of David his father. And he was blessed, and all Israel obeyed him. [the throne of Judah, through David, is the Lord’s Throne! Woe to those that oppose or de­ emphasise its importance – they bring curses upon themselves]

Psa 78:67  And He refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim;

Psa 78:68  but chose  the tribe  of Judah,  the mount Zion which He loved. [see IKings 11:36; Zech 8:15]

Psa 60:7  Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; and Ephraim is the strength of My head, Judah is My lawgiver;

Psa 108:8  Gilead is Mine; Manasseh is Mine and Ephraim is the strength of My head; Judah  is My lawgiver [see Num 21:18; Is 33:22; James 4:12]

Psa 114:2 Judah was His sanctuary, and Israel was His kingdom. [see Is 65:9)

What do the aforementioned scriptures tell us? Firstly, that Judah possesses the Royal line or scepter. Secondly, Judah is first among the tribes – this is in leadership capacity and other skills; they are the Lawgiver tribe – excellent at legislation and policy development; and lastly they are associated with God’s sanctuary and religion.

Original Location of Judah in the Holy Land

(Note the proximity to Dan, Ephraim and Benjamin)

What did this tribe look like? What were their racial f eatures and physiognomy? For, if we know that, then by a simple method of deductive reasoning, we might discover who their descendants are.

In lieu of me typing up my own notes, I find that Peter Salemi explains what the tribe of Judah looked like very succinctly:

“All peoples on earth today have descended from Noah’s three sons-Shem, Ham and Japheth-as recorded in Genesis 10. (NOTE: By comparing the known  geographic  origins  of  the  major  racial  groups  with  the  ancient locations of the biblically listed descendants of Noah’s sons, it is possible to determine which son of Noah fathered which major race.) Ham is the father of the Negroids-the dark-skinned peoples who inhabited Africa, India, and, anciently, certain eastern Mediterranean countries like Canaan. Japheth  is the father of the Mongoloids-the yellow and brown peoples of Asia and the native Indian tribes of North, Central and South America. Many of the olive­ skinned peoples who inhabited the countries of the northern rim of the Mediterranean Sea (e.g. Greeks) are also descendants of Japheth and his sons. Shem is the father  of the Caucasoids-the fair-skinned blonds. red­ heads and brunets who are often called the “white” peoples. So the Anglo­ Saxon-Celts  must  have  descended  from  Shem. This  makes  absolutely perfect sense when you realize that the very name of the Caucasian race is derived from the CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS-the area we’ve been reading so much about!

Some, though, have argued that Shem’s descendants-including Abraham’s descendants (Gen. 11:21-32)-are not white. Yet the Bible clearly describes Abraham and  Sarah’s descendants as  “fair”  (Heb.  yapheh–Gen.  12:11; 24:16; 26:7; Esther 2:7 KJV).

There is a description of Sarah, “In the seventh Dead Sea Scroll, whoever wrote this extolled Sarah’s perfection from head to foot and while it was written in prose poem, the description as it appeared in the news media was as follows:

‘Her skin was pure white;

‘She had long lovely hair;

Her limbs were smooth and rounded (her thighs were shapely;)

‘She had slender legs and small feet;

‘Her hand were slim and long and so were her fingers.’

“Unfortunately as far as is known, no description of Abraham appears in the Dead Sea scrolls, but as Sarah’s description is that of her racial attributes, one can only conclude that Abraham [being a relative of Sarah, see Gen 20:12]  would be  identical’  (R.  Weliland, God’s  Covenant  People,  p.340, emphasis added).

As a youth, King David (a Jew) was “ruddy and of a fair countenance” (1

Sam.  17:42  KJV). Such  words could never  be  used  to describe  either Hamites or Japhethites. “Ruddy: red; reddish; of the colour of healthy skin in white-skinned  peoples”  ( Chambers  Concise   Dictionary,  1988,  p.  932). Israel’s Nazarites are described as being “purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies” (Lam. 4:7 KJV). What peoples might have “ruby-red cheeks”? These are words that could never apply to darker-skinned peoples. Black, brown, yellow or even olive-skinned Mediterranean-type people could never be called “ruddy in body.”

What color are the majority of today’s ethnic Jews–many of whom live in Russia or New York City? White! Many of them could easily pass for British, Scandinavian or other Nordic European types. Notice this quote by Huxley and Haddon in We Europeans, concerning the few Nordic type people in Germany: “Hence their physique… is identical: fierce blue  eyes, red  hair (rutilae comae), tall frames…. It may be noted that red hair is rare among modern Germans, save among those of Jewish origin” (p. 36)!

Though some of Shem’s descendants  are darker because of their intermarriage  with  darker-skinned  peoples,  still,  it  is  almost  exclusively among the descendants of Shem-such as the lsraelites-that we find light­ skinned brunets, red-heads and blonds. Therefore the Celts and Scythian Anglo-Saxons must  be  descendants  of  Shem! Another indication  of  this descent is found in the following quote: “Alfred, king  of the Anglo-Saxons (b.  849  A.D.) was…  the  son   [descendant] of  Sem  [Shem)”   ( Church Historians of England, vol. 2, p. 443). Notice also: “So  the  Anglo-Saxons may  well  have  had  records of  the  ancestry of  their kings, beginning with Sceaf… and calling Sceaf the son of Noe, born  in the Ark, or even identifying him with  the Patriarch  Shem” (Haigh, Conquest of Britain by the Saxons, p. 115).

This author also says: “The Old Testament book The Song of Solomon appears to confirm this description of Yhshua. Many theologians are convinced that the ‘Husband’ in this book has a dual fulfillment in both Solomon and, prophetically,  in  Yhshua (Jesus] the Messiah: ‘My beloved [husband) is white  and ruddy…(Song  of Solomon 5:10 KJV)'” (R. Weiland, p.342, emphasis theirs). This is the same description of David. And since Jesus is  a descendant of David and Solomon, its only logical that Jesus looks or resembles David.

Publius Lentrelus, a resident of Judea in Jesus Time wrote about Jesus and said that he had “…eyes bright blue…” (ibid., p.341). Just like David! Jesus most likely had reddish or blond Hair, Maybe even freckles? Many writers like the letter to Caesar himself by  Pontius Pilate, and “Gamaliel’s interview,” about Jesus all describe Jesus with light colored hair and eyes. see ibid., pp.340-341.

Now also with the Shroud of Turin being proved as genuine, the experts say that the man on the Shroud, who is Jesus is “male Caucasian” (Robert Bucklin M.D., J.D.Las Vegas, Nevada). And that Jesus Had “light blonde hair” (Unlocking the Secrets of the Shroud, p.137, Gilbert Lavoie).

Now that we know and will get into more detail about the Scythian and the Celtic people being the exiled Israelites, what did they look like? Dr. Hans Gunther, professor of Berlin University in the 1920’s in his book,  “Racial Elements of European History, stated, “… ancient writers, such as Polemon of Ilium, Galienos, Clement of Alexandria, and Adamantios, state  that  the Scythians [Sacae] were like the Kelts and Germans, and describe them as ruddy–fair. The Scythian tribe of the Alans are also described as having a Nordic appearance. Ammianus [c350 A.D.] describes them as “almost  all tall and handsome, with  hair almost yellow, and a fierce  look.” This ishow the Bible describes the lsraelites.)”(7)

There can be no doubting that the Judahites were Keltic in racial type.

Prolific Jewish researcher and renowned author, Yair Davidy, provides even further proofs:

Shalom,  You are saying that on linguistic and racial grounds I must  be mistaken?  Well,  stranger  things  have  happened.  I should  confess  in advance, that you have touched a personal spot here. I have blondish hair that is inclined to red and so this question naturally always interested me. Since King David (who was described as “admoni”) is a hero of mine I was naturally always in favor of any explanation that said he may have had a similar hair coloring to my own. [This was perhaps some consolation for not being exactly similar to King David in more important ways!]. First of all linguistically:

[Genesis 2:7] AND THE LORD GOD FORMED MAN [ha-ADaM] OF THE DUST OF THE GROUND (ha-ADaMaH], AND BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE; AND MAN BECAME A LIVING SOUL.The Hebrew word for man [Adam: Aleph-daleth- mem] is linked to the word for ground [Adamah: Aleph-daleth- mem-heh]. The Hebrew word for red is edom (Aieph-daleth-vav-mem] and it may be connected to the same root as the words for man and for ground or earth. On  the other hand, lben Shushan in his Concordance says that the word edom meaning red derives from the same root as dam meaning blood, i.e. red like blood. At all events edam does not mean brown. In Hebrew the word for brown is choom. “Admoni” according to the Concordance of lben Shushan means inclined to red. Both Esau and David were described as “admoni”.Concerning the birth of Esau (who was later renamed Edom) it says:

[Genesis 25:25] AND THE FIRST CAME OUT RED [admoni], ALL OVER LIKE AN HAIRY GARMENT; AND THEY CALLED HIS NAME ESAU. Regarding David:  [1 Samuel 16:12] AND HE SENT, AND BROUGHT HIM IN.  NOW  HE WAS RUDDY [admoni],  AND WITHAL OF  A BEAUTIFUL COUNTENANCE,  AND GOODLY TO LOOK TO.  AND THE LORD SAID, ARISE, ANOINT HIM: FOR THIS IS HE.   And again concerning David: [1  Samuel 17:42] AND WHEN THE PHILISTINE  [Goliath] LOOKED ABOUT, AND SAW DAVID, HE DISDAINED HIM: FOR HE WAS BUT A YOUTH, AND RUDDY [admoni], AND OF A FAIR COUNTENANCE.

We see that in one case the King James version says that “admoni” means red and in another two cases that it means ruddy. In Hebrew Literature you can find the word admoni used in all kinds of contexts but in the earliest examples it seems to mean someone who is red-haired. In Jewish popular tradition of both Ashkenazim and Sephardim it is generally accepted that David had red-hair. The word “admoni” usually means someone with red hair but in some cases it can also mean someone who is blond or blond inclined to red. It is often taken as synonymous with the Modern Hebrew slang word “gingi” (from ginger) meaning blond or red haired …

«Early tradition spoke of the Lost Ten Tribes being in the Scythian area. This has been discussed by Andrew Colin Gow (“The Red Jews. Anti­ Semitism in an Apocalyptic Age 1200-1600” NY 1995). The Lost Ten Tribes were called “Red Jews” and were described as all having Red Hair. Red Hair in the Middle Ages especially in Germany was considered a negative characteristic and associated with the Jews and with Judas. The Anti-Christ and Judas were depicted as both having red hair and as both coming from the Tribe of Dan. In Germany the Jews were believed to be in league with the devil and to be plotting with the “Red Jews” meaning the   Ten Tribes to overthrow Christendom.

T. E. Reed (1952) declares simply that “The  frequency  of red hair in Britain is only about 4%.”& «Reaching even farther back, Michelson (1934) found 435 out of 2,397 male subjects “showed a red component in their hair.” That’s 18%. «Subsequent research by others verifies that the proportion of people with any red hair – e.g., ruddy whiskers – hovers between 18% and 20%.    However, Michelson (citation) performed a careful count of the proportion of red hairs in the heads of his subjects. Of 2,361 final subjects (very light hair was excluded), 56 had 50% or more red hairs on the head (2.37%).  There seems to be a consensus that redheads account for about 4% of the population (of Britain).    A very High proportion of red-heads amongst Jews were reported in “Galicia” in Eastern Europe. Unconfirmed opinions state that 12% of the Scottish are red-haired and that red hair was especially prevalent amongst the Picts.  Red-heads are also common in Ireland,  Scotland,  Norway  and  are  found  in  small  numbers  throughout Europe.

Red-heads were also common in the population of ancient Thrace in which we reported entities from Edom to have settled and from there moved to Germany.  Some of the Pharaohs had red hair though most Egyptians were darkish. The Egyptians used to sacrifice red-heads. The Egyptian god Seth was described as red-haired and was associated with the Hyksos and with the Land of Canaan. Seth could be considered to sometimes represent Israel in Egyptian thought. Red-hair   used to be associated with Seth. People from the Land of Israel are occasionally depicted as red-haired in Egyptian paintings.    Egyptian  illustrations  of  foreign  peoples  had  an  element  of caricature and ethnic distinctions were emphasized. Red colored hair for Egyptian artists was considered one of the distinguishing characteristics of Semites from the region of Ancient Israel and the Middle east in general.

Red-heads however are found in small numbers all over the world. It is a similar phenomenon to albinoism or blond hair. It may be due to genetics interacting with environmental influences. People with red hair have a chance of being related to each other BUT IT IS NOT NECESSARILY SO.

JEWS AND RED HAIR

The  Jewish  Encyclopedia:  Article  under  the heading “Hair”:· Anthropology: Among Jews the color of the hair has attracted special attention because, while the majority have dark hair, there is found a considerable proportion  with blond and red hair, as shown by the appended  table (No. 1): see Table No. 1: Color of Hair  Among 145,380 Jewish School Children.

From these figures it is seen that the proportion of dark hair (black and brown) is quite high 66 per cent in Germany, and reaching 76.3 per cent in Hungary. The proportion of fair hair is lowest in Hungary (23.7 per cent) and highest in Germany (32 per cent). In a fair proportion of blond-haired children the hair becomes darker as age advances; it is therefore essential to take observations upon adults. In the appended table (No. 2) are given the results of investigations upon Jews of both sexes and in various parts  of the world: see Table No.2:  Color of Hair Among 7,505 Jews.

Red   Hair.   The   figures   in  this   table   show   again   that   dark   hair predominates. The percentage of blond Jews varies only slightly, but is greatest in those   countries in which the non-Jewish  population  is blond. Thus in northern Russia (the Baltic Provinces) Blechman found 32 per cent of blonds; in England, according to Jacobs, 25.5 per cent have blond hair.

On the other hand, in Caucasia, where the natives are dark, the Jews show 96 per  cent  of  dark  hair.  The proportion  of  red  hair  is  also  quite  high, reaching 4 per cent in some observations. This has been considered characteristic of the Jews by some anthropologists. It appears to be not of recent origin, and was not unknown among the ancient Hebrews (Esau was “red, all over like a hairy garment”; Gen. xxv. 25).

Races are also differentiated, more or less, by straight, curly, or woolly hair. Among the Jews the distribution of these varieties of hair is shown in the following table (No. 3): see Table No. 3: Variety of Hair Among Jews.   The next table (No. 4) shows that the beard is usually darker than the hair: see Table No. 4: Color of the Beard.  By comparing these figures with those in No. 2 it is found that in the beard the proportion of light to dark is much higher. The number of red beards also increases perceptibly.”(8)

There are times when these people are praised by the other tribes. We see that more and more nowadays with the Scots being lauded and praised for their awesome achievements which are now beginning to be recognized.

Looking at the attributes of Judah in the Bible, we find the following:

1. more righteous than his brothers
2. pioneering and adventurous
3. courageous and brazen9
4. noble-minded
5. inventive and resourceful
6. uplifting
7. militaristic when necessary

But he also had faults. After the selling of Joseph into slavery, it seems that dissatisfaction descended upon Judah.

After all, Reuban was weak and vascillating; Levi could not be trusted and was too rigid and intolerant.  Simeon was hot-headed and getting into fights. So off he went on his own and stood on his own two feet like a solid pillar.

But he stands faithful and patriotic, standing  up for others and even sacrificing  himself for them:

When the governor of Egypt accused Benjamin of a crime which he could only purchase his life with slavery, Judah took his place instead:

“For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever. Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord: and let the lad go up with his brethren. For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.” (Gen 44:32-34}

Compare this with Mark 10:42-45:

“But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:  And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.”

Of further interest is that in the camp in the wilderness Judah leads the way! Always full of zeal and of a pioneering spirit, they are out in front, with the other tribes following (whether they realise it or not). The graphic beginning Part Two portrays this leading spirit.

to be continued

Footnotes

1   ibid: xxiv, xxv

2   ibid: 358-59

3   Windschuttle 2000 “Rewriting  the history of the British Empire”, The New Criterion Vol. 18, No.9, May

4   The Jews were also influencial in the Empire, having descended from another branch of Judah. In this regard I recommend Yair Davidiy’s paper “The Khazars: Some Notes for Further Study.” Although it is true that some Jews have mixed with Palestinians,  Lebanese  and Syrians according to a recent genetic study. (Proceedings  of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2000). See also “Jewish and Middle  Eastern non-Jewish populations  share a common pool of Y-chromosome biallelic haplotypes”  at www.pnas.org

5   Ferguson 2003: xii, 4

6  Cunliffe et al 2001: 186 (The Penguin Atlas of British and Irish History)

7   Salemi”The USA & the British Commonwealth In Bible Prophecy”, www.british-israel.ca/USA.htm. This is based mainly on chapter 3 of Raymond McNair”s booklet America and Britain in Prophecy, GlobalChurch of God, 1996

8  E-mail to an online discussion forum 20 July 2003. Ihave read materials  from anthropologists and historians on the physiognomy of the Jews. Pickering (1851: xlix) states: “… many Jews may be seen with light hair and beards;and in some rarts of Germany the Jews are remarkable for red bushy beards.”

Based on surnames alone,about 1/3 of the army of George Washington was Irish with others disguised with Anglicized surnames (according  to Yair Davidy in his e-mail newsletter Brit-Am, 27 May 2004). Washington is quoted at Valley  Forge as saying:”If all else fails, I will retreat up the valley of Virginia,plant my flag on the Blue Ridge, rally around the Scotch-Irish of that region, and make my last stand for libery amongst  a people who will never submit to British tyranny whilst there is a man left to draw a trigger.” Historians now know that his claims (and others seeking independence) against the British were tremendous  exaggerations, nevertheless this quote just goes to show what the tribe of Judah was all about.