well, since you can't seem to figure out basic linguistics, and your
only sources seem to be your own site, all i can do is continue passing
your posts around to my friends and joining them in a good beer and
laugh session (mmm.. Harp and Sleeman. mmm..). thank you, john, for
making my evenings more enjoyable, ya cute little retard, you.
John Knight wrote:
>> "Matthew Amsel" <matthew.amsel at mail.mcgill.ca> wrote in message
> news:3D6A8B88.53D0 at mail.mcgill.ca...> > Zayton wrote:
> > >
> > > "John Knight" <jwknight at polbox.com> wrote in message
> > > news:ViF99.3216$Ic7.442104 at news2.west.cox.net...> > > >
> > >
> > > Some jews even claim that
> > > > "Ashkenazi jews" aren't even descendants of Ashkenaz, but are instead
> > > > descendants of the Khazars who didn't even convert to Talmudism until
> the
> > > > 9th Century AD.
> >
> > umm... Ashkenaz means "german" (ie. the group of jews whose traditions
> > developed in the german/east european area). as opposed to sepharad,
> > which means "spain" (ie. the group of jews whose traditions developed in
> > the spanish/west european area).
>> The term "Ashkenazi" is derived from the descendants of Ashkenaz, who was a
> great-grandson of Noah http://christianparty.net/noahgenealogy.htm>> Only a very small percentage of Germans, probably less than 1%, were
> descendants of Ashkenaz, and they are known as "jews". Most of them also
> left Germany and it's speculated by jews themselves that they went to
> Khazaria from there. If so, this may explain why the Khazars converted to
> Judaism in the 9th Century AD, and it might provide a genetic link between
> Noah and the Khazars.
>> In any event, a very small percentage of the "jews" now claiming Israel as
> their "homeland" (the Sephardic jews you refer to above) can claim to be
> Semites, Hebrews, descendants of Abraham, or Israelites. And not even the
> Sephardic jews are descendants of Israelites, because they're descendants of
> Jacob's brother Esau (patriarch of the Edomites).
>> John Knight
