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Originally Posted by Grymir  The Ethnic Israel has to do with lineage and their mothers, I believe. When Temple was destroyed, so were the records. But some Jews today can trace their lineage back along way. God knows who they are. It became a problem with the establishment of Israel. Before that, converts were not common ( to Judaism), who would want to be persecuted the way they were? So todays definition has changed a little. The Mother thingy. |
(not really debateable- easily seen in scripture)
1) There was the "master copy of the Torah" in the ark
the king, made himself another copy
and every tribe had its own copy.
so there were at;east 14 manuscripts.
(debatable maybe, based off of info a few Orthodox rabbi friends sent me)
2) No, they weren't all destroyed. the tribes more than likely also kept there genealogies with them. this would make more since, than having them kept in Jerusalem- what if AJ and Joey were fighting that they deserved the inheritance- should they have to travel every time down to Jerusalem?? Its very likely that Genealogies and such were kept by individual tribes and levite cities throughout the land. though a good bit was destroyed with the temple, the modern claims are not "silly conspiracy or conjectures"