Monday, August 20, 2012
Jewish DNA Findings
Nadene Goldfoot
A video has come out highlighting Jon Entine's book, Abraham's Children, race, identity, and the DNA of the chosen people. His book was copyrighted in 2007 and is excellent. http://fun.mivzakon.co.il/video/General/8740/%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%A7%D7%A8.html
Being I have had our father's line tested for DNA, which if of the haplogroup, Q1b1a, I have been most interested as to what our origins would show, being we are Jewish and our grandfather was from Lithuania who immigrated to the USA around 1900. When I discovered a few Afghans with the same haplogroup but on a different "twig" of this branch, the story was really getting interesting. Then a few popped up from Saudi Arabia.
This has led to more digging into history on my part to find out how we could be connected to Muslims when we were Jewish. Our history of Arabs being our cousins is showing up scientifically in DNA research.
I've also seen where the J1 haplogroup has been called the Cohen gene, coming from Moses and his brother Aaron, who was selected to be the first presiding Cohen for the Jews. Arabs with the same haplogroup in DNA listings certainly surprised me.
This video will be a good start as to what Jews are and what has happened to us. It makes the study of our DNA all the more interesting.
The narrator mentions in the video that Jews have been kept insular and have not mixed with other groups. Only 1/2 of 1% have done so, at least in the past. 75% to 80% of Jewish men tested have been found to have Middle East DNA. About 50% of the Jewish women do not have a connection because Jewish men found wives in local places they were living in as they traveled.
Labels: Abraham's Children, Jewish DNA, Jon Entine, new video
