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In a message dated 12/29/98 7:58:05 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> "Jim Condit Jr." wrote:
> >
> > -Caveat Lector-
> >
> > I'm happy to be able to refer all to research that will settle the
"Khazar"
> > issue. (incidentally, I'm not the two people below are communicating
> > accurately with each other) -- Arthur Koestler, himself a Jewish scholar,
> > wrote The Thirteenth Tribe which was on the New York Times best seller
> list
> > for quite a few months back in the 1970's. In it he urges support for
> > Israel but, but also urges that the "chosen people" line be dropped
since,
> > according to him, 70% of the Jews in the world today are descended from
> the
> > Khazars in Russia who converted to Judaism, only 30% being descended from
> > the Hebrew people of Biblical times.
I am surprised by Koestler's superficial concept of the chosen people. At
times like this i wish i knew the bible better. There is a place in the Old
Testament which describes the tribes of Israel lining up on slopes of two
adjacent hills where they would respond to one another in apparently a sort of
chant format. The notion was that they were participating in the Exodus, not
commemorating it or recalling it but participating in it. A notion quite
analogous to the Catholic Mass. In other words, though i am no rabbi, my
understanding is that, like with Catholics, those who convert to Judaism are
considered to be fully Jews, not apart or inferior. Therefore, if not a
single living Jew carries a dollop of DNA from the Hebrews of the biblical
era, the living Jews are still the Chosen People.
Jerry
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