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Where did modern Jews and Indians come from?
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- What happened to the ancient Babylonians? Where are they now? And that thirteenth "tribe of Israel"?
Here come related questions:
What is the actual genetic ancestry of most Western Jews -- what region precisely did their European ancestors come from.
And the same for India: this increasingly advanced nation of more than a billion people, many of them of unusual intelligence and beauty, not to mention arcane beliefs. Their origins?
Of course, even with the most modern of DNA techniques, there are conflicting interpretations and results. And as always, controversy. But some of the hints are fascinating.
In the case of India are claims that Sanskrit-writing rulers of Babylon were the forefathers of Hindus in northern India.
This migration may have occurred around 1700 B.C. and might explain some of the exotic qualities of Indians as well as the religions there that are steeped in Babylonian-style paganism.
India had commerce with Babylon from 700 to 300 B.C.
That has been documented through ancient Indian coinage.
Many peoples went back and forth between India and the Middle East throughout antiquity (bringing also Indian culture to places like Egypt). Are many Indians thus Babylonian?
As for modern-day Jews, the evidence is potentially even more amazing, perhaps shocking.
One famous Jewish writer Arthur Koestler penned a controversial book in 1976 that set forth the theory that most Jewish people who migrated to places like Western Europe and the United States (known as Ashkenazi Jews) were not descended from the historical Israelites of antiquity but from Khazars -- in effect, Russians and Hungarians -- who converted to the Jewish faith during the Middle Ages and migrated westward after collapse after their empire.
Khazars came from a region near the Caspian and Black seas -- modern-day Russia, northern Turkey, and Georgia -- and are believed to have converted to Judaism in the eighth century so as not to fall under the control of Christian Rome to the west and a great, rising Islamic caliphate to the immediate south. They were adept at commerce, controlling trade between the East and West. Potentially, it solves a mystery: how an estimated fifty thousand Jews in Eastern Europe during the 1400s turned into a massive presence -- estimated at eight million Jews in the same region -- by the beginning of the 1900s.)
This is volatile stuff; if true it means that most modern Jews are not technically "Semitic." Koestler (again, a Hungarian Jew), hoped this fact might one day halt persecution of modern Jews by anti-Semites (since in his belief modern Jews are not Semitic).
The genetic Jews -- the Semites -- would in this theory be the darker-skinned ones seen in Israel, barely distinguishable from Palestinians.
But it could also be cause for persecution, leading to intensified calls for Jews to leave Israel, since most who migrated there from Europe and the U.S. do not have an actual genetic link to the region's ancestry.
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