[lbo-talk] Joel Shalit review of Sholom Sands?

[Wojtek S]

[WS:] I think he specifically argues against the exile theory, but again
this is based on second hand accounts not on the book itself.

Wojtek

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:


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>>  ...I read a few reviews, though.  It appears that his argument boils down
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>> terms, the closest descendants of ancient Jews are modern days
>> Palestinians,
>> whereas the holier than thou crowd that rules the Israeli state today are
>> descendants of European converts...
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> Bad reviews.  Whatever the historical truth beyond the "conversion"
> origins-myth for Khazar Judaism (the alternative view finds at least some of
> its origins among the Israelite tribes deported by Sargon II to the eventual
> heartland of the Khazar Empire "beyond the mountains of darkness"), the
> Khazars were certainly not "Europeans."
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> Shane Mage
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> "Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
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