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Schlomo Zand is a professor of history at Tel Aviv
University in Israel. His book “When and How Was
the Jewish People Invented?, continues to cause
an uproar among his statesmen.
So Why is Zionist-Israel in an Uproar Over a Book by
Schlomo Zand? He argues that new facts have
emerged which “face any honest historian with
fundamental questions.”
What Zand argues are facts which support those already stated in the New Testament. Whether one accepts the Bible as an inspired book or not it is a history book in that it records historical events. Such is the nature of any writing which has occurred in history though history may not be it’s aim.
The controversy centers around the fact which Scriptures acknowledge that Jews primarily shared a common religion. In the words of Christ, “Salvation is of the Jews.” (John 4:22).
Nevertheless, Judaism was also national. The authorities in Ancient Israel conspired to put Jesus to death to fulfill a prophecy that he would “die for the nation.” See John 11:50–52.)
Theirs was a theocratic nation where land, laws, people and religion were all one unit based on the covenant. The Jews were a covenant-created people, created by God to carry forth the message of a redeeming Savior to the world.
Abraham is the father from whom Jews through Sarah, (Gen. 21:2) some Africans -Ancient Egyptians through Hagar, (Gen. 16:4) and Arabs through Keturah, (Gen. 25:1–4), all can trace their ancestry.
Current research is scientifically proving the ancient genetic link between Jews, Kurds and Arabs, per the biblical text. Cohen Modal Haplotype, (CMH) considered the most definitive Jewish haplotype, was found among 10.1% of Kurdish Jews. (Wikipedia)
Abraham (who was not a Jew), traced his lineage to Ur of the Chaldeans (Babylon or Iraq, Gen. 11:26–31). Thus, the DNA research points in the right direction.
“Chaim Raphael points out that starting with Abraham in Babylon (Iraq), through Joseph and Moses in Egypt, the kingdoms of Israel and Judea, back to Babylon, then Spain and the Mediterranean, most Jewish history until the last few centuries has been largely the history of the Jews of middle-eastern and Mediterranean culture, the culture we associate today with Sephardic Jews.” (Sephardim and their History, Jeff Malka)
Israel As A Nation
As biblical history records, Israel became a nation through a covenant God made with them under Moses (Exod. 19:1–5), to give them the land of Canaan (Palestine) resulting from a promise made to Abraham. (Gen. 15:13–16).
To claim that Israel was merely a people, apart from their religion and nation counters the Bible account. One can only reason that such is done for political, nationalist and racist reasons.
If history, science and the Bible prove anything, they prove that Zionism is based on a lie. When God ended Israel’s covenant religion in AD 70, he ended their claim to the land based upon that Old Covenant.
Zionist-Israel Created in 1948
Schlomo Zand is correct in his assessment that most of todays “Jews” have no historical connection to the land called Israel. Ben Gurion, the founding father of the Zionist state, was Polish. See Alan Hart’s “Zionism, the Real Enemy of the Jews: The False Messiah.
Hart writes that at the time the of Zionism’s secret commitment to the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, the Arabs were the overwhelming majority of the inhabitants of that land, numbering about 500,000.
The minority Jewish community of Palestine strongly opposed the Zionist enterprise. They viewed Zionism as a threat to their continued well-being. See also Jews against Zionism.
Why Is Zionist-Israel In An Uproar Over A Book By Schlomo Zand?
It seems that the current state of Israel created in 1948 consisting of German, Russian and other European Jews, have neither the Biblical, genetic (DNA) nor national connection to the land of Palestine.
The Israel Lobby in American politics bought this propaganda, hook, line and sinker, and the policies are sinking the U.S. and others around the world.
As science, theology and biology reveals more light on this subject, it becomes harder for the masses to continue laboring under these “mass weapons of deception.”
Christian Zionists
Christian Zionists (as far as a national state of Israel is concerned) is an oxymoron. They of all people are the most foolish is supporting this propaganda and destruction regime.
Of all people, they should know better with big Bibles in hand, augmented volume levels on the microphones and TV studio lights to boot, that true Israel, is now a spiritual nation, based on Abraham’s faith, not his Babylonian blood, (1 Pet. 2:9). Christian Zionism is a Tower of Babel, i.e. confused theologians.
That faith is expressed in his spiritual Seed,” Christ, (Gal. 3:19), per the O.T. prophecies. While Christ was a fleshly descendant of Abraham, (Matt. 1:1–17), he severed his fleshly ties to the Old Covenant world, the land, people and temple through death, (Lk. 9:31).
Through his death, Christ established a new relationship with the house of Israel and Judah, though the new covenant, Heb. 8:6–13.
The interesting word in Luke 9:31 for “decease” is “exodus.” Christ left that world for the world of the Spirit, accessed by faith in Abraham. “And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed…”Gal. 3:26–29).
Zand has invigorated the debate among his statesmen in his
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Great article William! Keep up the good work! Blessings, David
Decent article, but there is no spiritual Israel. The entire bible is written by and for the racial decendants of Jacob/Israel, the caucasian white people. Jews are a mongrelized race of people that are edomite, cannanite, and hittite. They are imposters and will be dealt with as how the book of Obidiah foretells.
William,
Your point that Abraham "was not a Jew" is misleading to your readers. As you should know, Abram was the first Hebrew (Gen. 14:13), and the father of the Hebrew people, ie the Israelites, or the Jews. Nowhere in the New Covenant does it say that God has cast off His people Israel, nor His promise of the Land. Romans 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew…11:5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace…11:23 see 24,25; 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 11:27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Gen 13:15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed forever. See also Deut. 30.
You must rethink your escotology–God is not finished with His Chosen people, the Jews. He will be faithful to His word.
The Bible says the following of Abram (Abraham). "This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. And Haran died before his father in his native land, Ur of the Chaldeans…and Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarah, his son Abram's wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. (Gen. 11:29, 31.).
According to the Wycliffe Bible Commentary, p. 16, Ur of the Chaldees was an ancient city of the early Sumerian kingdom, located about 125 miles from the present mouth of the Euphrates, 100 miles southeast of Babylon, [Iraq], 830 miles from Haran. Terah, Abram's father moved his family to Haran, a small Arab village and one of the chief center for the worship of "Sin", the moon-god, where Terah died before Abram migrated to Canaan.
Zondervan's Pictorial Enclyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 21, states, "Ur in Chaldees, most generally identified as modern Tell el Muqayyar, located nine m. W of Nasiriyeh on the Euphrates River in S Irag, was the birthplace of Abram the son of Terah a descendant of Shem.
"The term "Hebrew" originates from Shem's descendant, "Eber," who was neither an Israelite nor a Jew. (Gen. 11:14-17). Thus "Eber" is the "father" of the Hebrew people who existed before Israel or the Jews. Abram was his descendant. Scholars say the word Hebrew means one who crossed over, implying crossing over the Jordan, i.e. an immigrant. Israel [Jacob] descended from Abraham and Judah (from which we get Jews) originated from Judah, the son of Jacob.
Paul, makes very clear that Abraham was called and blessed by God before he was circumcised, a point he makes to demonstrate that the salvation promised through Abraham predated the Law. In other words, God's point was that Abraham was called as a "Gentile," not as a "circumcised" Jew. "And the Scripture foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, "In you all the nations shall be blessed." (Gal. 3:8)
Note also Romans 4:8-9. "Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcised only, or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. How then was it accounted? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised.
And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be 'the father of all those who "believe"', though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also, and the father of circumcision to those who no only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while still uncircumcised." (Romans 4:9-12).
Because he was their father did not make a him a "Jew" or "Israelite" any more than one's nationality or religion is determined by their son's birth. If that were the case, then one might well argue that Abraham was Arab and Egyptian since he fathered Ishmael through Hagar, the Egyptian bondmaid of Sarah, and Arabs through Keturah, (Gen. 25:1-4). Neither do we stop there. He also is the father of those who believe, i.e. Christians, therefore, should we not reason that Abraham was/is a Christian, because his descendants are?, (Gal. 3:29). I believe the latter more truly defines the fatherhood of Abraham as related to one's stance before God.