A new and ‘controversial’ paper by Eran Elhaik came out recently in Genome Biology and Evolution.
Despite being one of the most genetically analysed groups, the origin of European Jews has remained obscure. However, a new study published online today (Thursday) in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution by Dr Eran Elhaik, a geneticist at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, argues that the European Jewish genome is a mosaic of Caucasus, European, and Semitic ancestries, setting to rest previous contradictory reports of Jewish ancestry. Elhaik’s findings strongly support the Khazarian Hypothesis, as opposed to the Rhineland Hypothesis, of European Jewish origins. This could have a major impact on the ways in which scientists study genetic disorders within the population.
The paper had been around in arxiv.org for months, but we failed to take notice. Here is the abstract.
The question of Jewish ancestry has been the subject of controversy for over two centuries and has yet to be resolved. The “Rhineland Hypothesis” proposes that Eastern European Jews emerged from a small group of German Jews who migrated eastward and expanded rapidly. Alternatively, the “Khazarian Hypothesis” suggests that Eastern European descended from Judean tribes who joined the Khazars, an amalgam of Turkic clans that settled the Caucasus in the early centuries CE and converted to Judaism in the 8th century. The Judaized Empire was continuously reinforced with Mesopotamian and Greco-Roman Jews until the 13th century. Following the collapse of their empire, the Judeo-Khazars fled to Eastern Europe. The rise of European Jewry is therefore explained by the contribution of the Judeo-Khazars. Thus far, however, their contribution has been estimated only empirically; the absence of genome-wide data from Caucasus populations precluded testing the Khazarian Hypothesis. Recent sequencing of modern Caucasus populations prompted us to revisit the Khazarian Hypothesis and compare it with the Rhineland Hypothesis. We applied a wide range of population genetic analyses – including principal component, biogeographical origin, admixture, identity by descent, allele sharing distance, and uniparental analyses – to compare these two hypotheses. Our findings support the Khazarian Hypothesis and portray the European Jewish genome as a mosaic of Caucasus, European, and Semitic ancestries, thereby consolidating previous contradictory reports of Jewish ancestry.
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For those interested to learn about Khazars, here are few links from relevant time period -
Also check Khazar DNA Project for more information.
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Why controversial? Thanks for asking. The topic of Khazars is a good example of modern day battle between religion, politics and science. ‘Religion’ and ‘politics’ want Khazars to go away, but ‘science’ keeps throwing cold water into their grand plans. If you want to read about these topics, the best book to start with is The Wandering Who by Gilad Atzmon. Also, The Thirteenth Tribe: The Kazar Empire and Its Heritage by Arthur Koestler and The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand are supposedly informative, but we have not completed them yet.
Well, the new report stops short of history,k further back than the Khazarians in the 600s A.D.
The Khazars were NOT native to that region!
Where did they come from before that?
From the East, from the area of China. The Chinese have historical documents about them. They were troublemakers and the Han drove them off, Westward, around 200 A.D.
Oh, this study is by an israeli, the masters of Lies!
If you believe this guy, you’re in the market for a bridge.
The US supports endless wars for Israel, it all started a decade ago after a false flag attack.
9/11, US and Israel:
http://www.amazon.com/America-Deceived-II-Possession-interrogation/dp/1450257437
Thank you for your comment Bonnie. Please take a look at this commentary to understand our general approach.
http://homolog.us/Social/do-you-believe-in-human-genome-quantum-mechanics-or-lie-algebra/
In science, we do not ‘believe’ a person or a group of people. Usually the narrator presents his case with numbers and data, and we try to judge about correctness of his analysis based on what is presented, not who presents it. The narrator may be a habitual liar and can still present a scientifically correct analysis, or the narrator may be Nobel laureate and we will still distrust his analysis, if his numbers do not add up.
In case of linked paper, it is quite possible that the author made a mistake in data collection or analysis, but we have not found any evidence of it yet. Please feel free to point out, if you see any error.
Very interesting points. I hope someone designs a population genetics study to investigate the above points. The presented study did push the boundary quite a bit however, because even the Khazarian connection was never established scientifically.
Thanks Allen, but your comment is unrelated to the population genetics study.
I read the Khazarians were redheads. So were the more nomadic Scythians, so I wonder if some Scythians settled and became the Khazars. Both were totally bad-arsed warriors, so I wonder. Just a theory, and I’m not the only one who thinks so.
I always thought there were two main branches of European Jews, the Sephardic Jews, who after expulsion from Palestine by the Romans, who migrated through North Africa, eventually settling in Spain and Portugal. Then there are the Ashkenazi Jews, who initially migrated to what is now the Khazarian region and then migrated west to the Rhineland area.
Sitchin never explained what became of the Mars miners who came to Earth, in the Caucus Mt.s region.
http://oldgoths.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.no/2012/01/more-on-uralics-part-1.html
They lie about everything and this lies are been main streem “knowledge”, there is a parralell to this and it is Zionism, a byproduct of Religious Belives and practising, the Talmud.
The Scandinavians, the so caled indiginous Norwegians as they protry them selfs are a flatt out lie.
The majorety came to this land, and inhabitted the suthern parts of it, and also scandinavia, from 800 and onward, and creating the “vikink era”, also a fake one, like the King list, a total hoax.
The facts is more complex than previously belived, despte the amount of arcelological “proves” otherwise, but never mentioned. A lott of this, mentioned in the links above, I my self have winested.
Norway was buditic, centurys before they where critianaised, by sword, and the native, the Finns are pushed into oblivion and our history forged to sute the Nationalistic Norwegians belives and “history”, moustly created in the 1800, and largly rascistic.
peace
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