| David Jay Jordan's Part TWO Ten Missing Tribes, Khumri, Kelts & Anglo-Saxons (Reposted by permission of http://www.orange-street-church.org) Famed early 20th century historian archaeologist, Archibald Henry Sayce, in his book, Higher Critics and the Monuments, p. 396, adds: "It was, however, in the time of Ahab the son of Omri that the Assyrians first became acquainted with the kingdom of Israel, and consequently Samaria continued ever afterwards to be known to them as Beth-Omri, the 'house of Omri' (or, 'Khumri')." "... the Sacae, or Scythians, who, again, were the Lost Ten Tribes." The Jewish Encyclopaedia, Vol 12. p250 Israel = Saka = Gimirri = Khumri .............. Scholars confirm that the people known to the Persians as SAKA, to the Babylonians as GIMIRRI, and to the Assyrians as KHUMRI, were but different names for the Lost Ten Tribes in captivity. 'Saka' or 'Sacae' meant 'House of Isaac', while the terms 'Khumri', and 'Gimirri' translate as 'House of Omri'(The Assyrians later also adopted the Babylonian variant of Khumri, Gimirri.) From this word Khumri or Gimirri developed the tribal name, 'Cimmerian', as well. The famed ancient writer, Herodotus, visited these tribes about 450BC. Sir Henry Rawlinson, decipherer of the Behistun Rock, informs us that: "We have reasonable grounds for regarding the GIMIRRI, or CIMMERIANS, who first appeared on the confines of Assyria and Media in the seventh century BC, and the SACAE of the Behistun Rock, nearly two centuries later, as identical with the BETH-KHUMREE of Samaria, or the Ten Tribes of the House of Israel..." (8) George Rawlinson, translator of the History of Herodotus, added: "The SACAE or Scythians, who were termed GIMIRRI by their Semitic neighbours, first appear in the cuneiform inscriptions as a substantive people under Esar-Haddon in about 684BC." (9) By this date the Ten Tribes, Israel-Gimirri, were entirely resident in Assyria, for a great deportation of 'the whole seed of Ephraim' (Jeremiah ch.7 v.15) had removed them from Palestine. We read: "... there was none left but the tribe of Judah only... So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day." 2 Kings ch. 17 vv. 18 & 23 The famed Roman-Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus, said in the first century AD: "Wherefore there are but two [Israel] tribes in Europe and Asia subject to the Romans, while the ten tribes are beyond the Euphrates till now, and are an immense multitude, and not to be estimated by numbers." (10) The lost ten tribes were dwelling beyond the Euphrates Valley, travelling northward, so our next step is to trace their migrations through the Caucasus. Birth of The Caucasian Tribes The Jewish Encyclopaedia says: "If Ten Tribes have disappeared, the literal fulfilment of the prophecies would be impossible. If they have not disappeared, obviously they must exist under a different name?" (11) This is the only real choice! If the Bible prophecies are to be literally fulfilled, the Lost Tribes must be known today by a name other than 'Israel'. But what other name? Historian Sharon Turner, author of the scholarly three-volume History of the Anglo-Saxons, tells us this: "... Of the various Scythian nations which have been recorded, the SAKAI, or SACAE, are the people from whom the descent of the SAXONS may be inferred with the least violation of probability. Sakal-suna, or the sons of the Sakai, abbreviated into Saksun, which is the same sound as Saxon, seems a reasonable etymology of the word, Saxon. Strabo places them east of the Caspian... this important fact of a part of Armenia having been named Saka-sina is mentioned by Strabo in another place (lib. xi. pp. 776, 778); and seems to give a geographical locality to our primeval ancestors, and to account for the Persian words that occur in the Saxon language, as they must have come into Armenia from the northern regions of Persia. It is also important to remark that Ptolemy [a celebrated scholar of about AD150] mentions a Scythian people sprung from the SAKAI by the name of SAXONES. If the Sakai, who reached Armenia were called Sacassani, they may have traversed Europe with the same appellation: which, being pronounced by the Romans from them, and then reduced to writing from their pronunciation, may have been spelt with the x instead of the ks, and thus Saxones would not be a greater variation from Sacassani or Saxsuna, than we find between French, Francois, Franci, and their Greek name Phrange: or between Spain, Espagne, and Hispania!" (12) Many history books show an area marked, 'Iberia', or 'Hebrew's Land', in the Caucasus Mountain region between the Caspian and Black Seas, north beyond the Euphrates. (15) The word 'Hebrew' means a descendant of Eber, the great-grandson of Noah. Even to this day, Spain is known as the Iberian Peninsula, and Ireland by the slight variation, Hibernia, both indicating their Hebrew origins in antiquity. In the apocryphal book of 2 Esdras ch. 13, vv.40-45 we read: "These are the Ten Tribes, which were carried away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanesar, the king of Assyria, led away captive, and he led them over the waters, and so came they into another land. But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt... And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow passages of the river... For through that country there was a great way to go, namely of a year and a half; and the same region is called Arsareth." Ar is the Chaldean word for river, and Biblical archaeologist, Dr. E. Raymond Capt believes that this may refer to Eastern Europe, in the region of modern Rumania, where a River Sareth exists to this day. For Continued Conclusion of Ten Missing Tribes, Kelts, & Anglo-Saxons |