[wardaddy]

Jews adopted matrilineal descent prior to the diaspora...sometime around Augustus I think

btw...

all women were subject to the sexual whims of the nobility and conquerers

not just Jewish women

my own ancestors too I’d reckon

Celts by Romans..

then Pax Romana Britons by Saxons

then Saxons by Danes

then all by Normans and so forth

I’ve seen studies that Med peoples were fairer in Biblical times than now....Romans and Greeks for sure and Phonecian type and Jews too possibly..who knows

[stefanbatory]

I would take a gander and say that was because of the conquering Ottomans...