[Henry M]

10 Lost Tribes? Thought there were ten tribes, one lost. A-and isn't 
the lost tribe Ethiopians, Haile Selasie the "Lion of Judah" and all?

> Date:          Mon, 03 Mar 1997 10:55:54 -0600 (CST)
> From:          LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU
> To:            pynchon-l at waste.org

<snip>
> "There was also a British-born                      
> crackpot from the turn of the century (the name eludes me but I can
> probably track it down) who argued that the "People of Israel" referred
> to in the Old Testament were actually blonde-and-blue-eyed
> Anglo-Saxons, and that the *real* setting for the New Testament
> narratives was Britain. As I recall, his theories were widely
> embraced within Nazism."
> 
> 
> This particular bit of mythology still has adherents in various forms and
> sects, in the US as well as Britain.  The myth has it that the Celtic
> peoples are actually the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel--so the "real" Jews
> are Welsh, Scots, etc!  A variant on this is that Joseph of Arimethea 
> and Jewish-Christian fellow travellers came to settle in England with
> the Grail in their possession.

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