Those who hold the views I term "cultic" about the idea that various tribes were or are "lost," or that they "became" certain modern nations such as the British, Irish, or Celts generally, or Brythonic/Bretonic generally, or Anglo-Saxons generally...
I am not interested in those views, and I do not expect G-d to do anything in the final ages wrt those nations per se.
I do think that the USA's unhypehenated per se, as the ehrtsot ha-Breet, is/are a sort of second Israel, not according to fleshly descent FTMP, but according to the spirit, and that they/we represent Efraim in the end-time prophecies FWIW.
This is hardly a critical or important matter to me, and I never bother to teach on it.
>... I term "cultic" about the idea that various tribes were or are "lost," or
that they "became" ... Celts
Ah, too bad. Then I must view those who would steal the name Israelite as no better than common Claim Jumpers, Thieves of the good names of others, and who attempt to justify their greedy, clutching, grasping actions by subverting the word of God. These are the true Cultists, no better than the Jim Jones cults of history.
>I am not interested in those views, and I do not expect G-d to do anything in the final ages wrt
those nations per se.
It IS a pain to have to redo lecture notes. I know from experience teaching Graduate School at two of the nations finest.
After all, retirement is probably less than 20 years away, so why bother? If you put the lecture notes in plastic sheet binders the actual paper may also last until retirement. And with a little luck, new discoveries and ideas will not close in about you so closely that others will note you have become quite stale and obsolete.
>This is hardly a critical or important matter to me, and I never bother to teach on it.
Clearly it is not important to you. It is not important to teach students the truth, only what is in the sullabus. Accuracy in Academia is not important, for in the end only Tenure counts.
Have a nice undistrubed day. Sleep well.
-LT
I am not interested in those views, and I do not expect G-d to do anything in the final ages wrt those nations per se. Hosea 1: 10] Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.
[11] Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
What I don't understand is why people find it so threatening that there may be more inheritors of Abrham's covenant than previously thought?
