Holy Shit! African Jews Are Lost Tribe of Israel!!!
Whoa, this is some Indiana Jones shit. A group of orthodox-practice-but-christians-or-muslims in Zimbabwe (who also possess a replica of the ark of the covenant) that has always claimed to be descended from a tribe that fled Israel around 500 BC has, thanks to DNA testing, finally been able to tell its whole story…
Members of the spiritual leaders of the Lemba, a clan known as the Buba, were even discovered to have a genetic element also found among the Jewish priestly line.
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Pretty interesting- the stuff about them having the Arc seems a little suspect, as it was probably destroyed some 2500 years ago and theirs is dated to only 700 years, but you know how carbon dating doesn’t mean anything when God is involved.
What this article neglects it that there’ve been African Jews in Ethiopia for a long time now, and unlike the Lemba, the Ethiopian Jews are accepted by the Hasidim as full-blooded practicing Jews and considered citizens of Israel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Israel