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You were doing well with your history until you got to the Celtic fantasy. It's amazing what bullsh*t people will believe. As far as Israelite ancestry goes, I don't deny that there are some, if not many, people with primarily "Celtic" ancestry and some Jewish or Israelite ancestry as well. I'm one of those people, but my heritige wasn't the result of some mass migration away from Assyrian captivity, at least not any migration that you can DOCUMENT. More that likely, the "Lost Tribes" were gradually absorbed by the population of Assyria and remain in that vicinity to this day.

>You were doing just fine with your history...
>You were doing well with your history...

Thank You and Thank You.

>More that likely, the "Lost Tribes" were gradually absorbed by the population of Assyria and remain in that vicinity to this day.

Sorry, but ONE ASSYRIAN TABLETS trumps ONE MORE THAN LIKELY with miles to spare. When you can bring something of value to the table we will discuss it. I put some of my evidence on the table. Now kindly examine it and respond at a higher than adolescent level, otherwise you are just more beer farts in the saloon.

The "absorbed" theory was created by those who don't have a viable opinion but think they have to say something, supported by others to whom it is essential that the Lost Tribes of Irael not ever be found. Or if they are found, they must be camel-riding nose-picking savages eating shiskabob over a campfire in the desert. Gotta do better than that.

I do thank you for accepting paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 in post #36 as an accurate history of the Israelites. That should enable us to confine our discussion to these remaining 2 paragraphs.

Lets take the first paragraph first. It consists of 2 sentences. Let take the first sentence first.

OK, WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?

A 3-MINUTE HISTORY

A hundred years later, this "lost" Northern Kingdom of Israel with now over 6 Million Israelites escaped and migrated north through the Caucasus Mountains and past the Black and Caspian Seas, to appear in history ~610 BC as The Celts. These Celts mixed with (and fought) other scattered Israelites ( proto-Celts) who had escaped from Egypt by sea a thousand years earlier and established many outposts in Europe and elsewhere.

These Millions of Celts grew over time to become Hundreds of Millions as they migrated in waves westward and northwest to Galatia, Ephesus, Corinth, Phillipi, to what is today Hallstadt, Austria and Neuchatel, Switzerland (where exist major Celtic digs and museums) and beyond, to dominate Northern and Western Europe. They are the rootstock of today’s Europeans, and Americans.

If you believe the Bible to be a book of history and prophecy, I find Hosea 1:10, 11 to have some interesting implications. Make no mistake, God knows who His people are. His covenant was made to the patriarch of Israel, that is, twelve tribes. Judah is only one tribe and parts of others (maybe all of Benjamin).

Judah won't reach "sands in the sea" status for centruies, if ever. Then Judah and Israel are mentioned as separate entities coming together. Not possible for that prophecy to be fulfulled if Israel has been absorbed and disappeared.

One or the other: God's prophecies or Bible is just a book.