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Jewish Indian theory (or Hebraic Indian theory, [1] or Jewish Amerindian theory [2]) is the erroneous [3] idea that some or all of the lost tribes of Israel had travelled to the Americas and that all or some of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas are of Israelite descent or were influenced by still-lost Jewish populations.
These groups include the Pashtuns (see Theory of Pashtun descent from Israelites), the British (see British Israelism and Christian Identity), the French (see French Israelism), the Scandinavians (see Nordic Israelism), the Native Americans (see Jewish Indian theory), the Japanese (see Japanese-Jewish common ancestry theory), and many others.
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Delegation of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, bearing gifts to the Assyrian ruler Shalmaneser III, c. 840 BCE, on the Black Obelisk, British Museum. The scriptural basis for the idea of lost tribes is 2 Kings 17:6: "In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the ...
In the English culture/language context, Thorowgood's treatise Ievves in America, or, Probabilities that the Americans are of that race.With the removal of some contrary reasonings, and earnest desires for effectuall endeavours to make them Christian, [3] first published in 1650 under the encouragement of John Dury, [4] appears to be the first suggestion of the "Jewish Indian" theory, which ...
The Bnei Menashe (Hebrew: בני מנשה, "Children of Menasseh", known as the Shinlung in India [3]) is a community of Indian Jews from various Tibeto-Burmese [4] ethnic groups from the border of India and Burma who claim descent from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel, [3]: 3 allegedly based on the Hmar belief in an ancestor named Manmasi. [5]
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Jewish Indian theory; N. Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory This page was last edited on 2 September 2023, at 19:19 (UTC). ...