Hebrew Voices #151 – Royal Attire 1: Lost Tribes and Magical Names
In this episode of Hebrew Voices #151, Royal Attire 1: Lost Tribes and Magical Names, Nehemia talks about an 18th century Karaite letter to the king of Sweden with Dr. Gabriel Wasserman. They discuss how the Jewish concept of “peoplehood” … Continue reading →
In this episode of Hebrew Voices #151, Royal Attire 1: Lost Tribes and Magical Names, Nehemia talks about an 18th century Karaite letter to the king of Sweden with Dr. Gabriel Wasserman. They discuss how the Jewish concept of “peoplehood” contrasts with modern ethnic nationalism, how tax persecution led European Karaites to deny their Jewish heritage, and the theory that Karaites are the Ten Lost Tribes.
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Hebrew Voices #151 – Royal Attire 1: Lost Tribes and Magical Names
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Gabriel: What happened to those people who were exiled by Jeroboam, and we never heard from them again?
Nehemia: Shalom and welcome to Hebrew Voices, where I'm here today with Dr. Gabriel Wasserman, who got his PhD from Yeshiva University in New York, and then did a postdoc at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Shalom Gabriel!
Gabriel: Hi!
Nehemia: Gabriel, what's a postdoc? Because most people, I think, out there know about a PhD, which is a doctorate. You've actually done a post doctorate. What is that?
Gabriel: So, a postdoc is a job, and it's basically an entry level job in academia. It can involve all sorts of things. What do academics do? So, most famously, academics teach. But not all academics teach, and certainly not all of what academics do is teaching; a postdoc can include teaching, mine didn’t. Academics do research, a postdoc can include research; my postdoc did include research. A postdoc can include presenting your research; I did indeed give one presentation as part of my postdoc. But most of it was just doing work on a project that's a part of a book, that's part of a series that is not out yet.
Nehemia: Alright, so basically it was research, continuing research, after you finished your PhD.
Gabriel: Research and writing. Yeah.
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BaL’Shem ? Magic? There was a false accusation against Yeshu’a Ben ‘El ‘Elyon that it was by magic that the people were healed, and one person referred to my desire to apply the healing made possible at the cross as magic. Only by denial [rejection] of Yeshu’a being Yehovah Go’alkha Q’dosh Yisra’el [Yesha’yahu 48: 17] could such a statement be made.
Greetings, I have heard that All Jews are Israelites, But not that not all Israelites are Jews? But that Israelites are pedominantly lost 10 tribes,and Jews are predominantly Juda, Benjamin and Levi? and that they were loyal to Reheboam?? What is your understanding of this?
Love this lively conversation.
Important: Nehemia, your guest spoke of a book written in Arabic, but using Hebrew letters. As I begin to learn Biblical Hebrew, by first learning Modern Hebrew, I was told the reason for the difference in pronunciation is 50,000 men from Europe returning to Israel that refused to learn the unfamiliar sounds that yet remain in Arabic. My question is: Was I wrong for assuming Arabic and Hebrew being different languages in script only? I have been believing that at the time of the writing of the Scriptures, all the sons of Abraham spoke the same language.
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