FINAL WARNING: The Curtain Falls
were descendants of the tribes of Dan, Zebulun, Asher, and Naphtali.
In Arabia, he discovered the largest Jewish settlement in the region–
the Jews of Kheibar, who he identified as being from the tribes of
Reuben and Gad.In the early 16th century, Bartholeme de Las Casas, wrote of the
Indians in the West Indies, Peru, and Guatemala: “Indeed, I can bring
proofs from the Bible that they are of the Lost Tribes.” A report 120
years later by Portuguese traveler Antonio Montezinos indicated that
there was an Indian tribe living beyond the mountain passes of the
Andes that represented a remnant of a Jewish tribe. He wrote: “I
myself heard them recite the Shéma (the expression of Jewish faith)
and saw them observe the Jewish rituals.”There is also evidence of Israelites in this country before the Assyrian
deportation, such as the unusual custom of the American Indian tribes
referring to themselves as nations.In North Carolina, the Machapunga Indians circumcise their babies and
have some traditions that are similar to the Jews, as do the Savanna
Indians from the banks of the Mississippi River.The Yuchi Indians in Oklahoma have a custom which is unique among
other American Indian tribes, which proves that they are racially and
linguistically different from their neighbors. In True Discoverers of
America William Dankenbring, wrote: “Every year on the fifteenth day
of the sacred month of harvest, in the fall, they make a pilgrimage. For
eight days they live in ‘booths’ with roofs open to the sky, covered
with branches and leaves and foliage. During this festival, they dance
around the sacred fire, and called upon the name of God.” This ritual is
similar to the Israelite Feast of Tabernacles (details of which are found
in Leviticus 23). Dr. Cyrus B. Gordon (professor of Mediterranean
Studies at Brandeis University in Boston Massachusetts), an expert in
Hebrew, Minoan, and many other Middle Eastern languages, was
allowed to witness one of their fall harvest festivals, and said to his
companion, “They are speaking the Hebrew names for God!”So, what we have is documented proof that the Jews did indeed
migrate to other countries. In the course of this migration, they
produced many branches which assimilated themselves into the local