Ten Lost Tribes of Israel?

[Noremac]

Ten Lost Tribes were the ten tribes that inhabited the northern Kingdom of Israel that broke off from the United Monarchy of Solomon. The Kingdom of Israel was invaded and destroyed by the Assyrians. The Kingdom of Judah, the southern kingdom from the United Monarchy, lasted till the Babylonians took them over. Since then modern Jews see that their ancestors are the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.

What do you think happened to them?

[Farnan]

Assimilated with the rest of the people around them.

[Forve]

I agree with Farnar's suggestion and with his signature

[Zenith Darksea]

Seems pretty likely, yes.

[Farnan]

Seems pretty likely, yes.

Even the Biblical account shows evidence of them adopting Caananite/Phonecian culture and traditions.

[saglam2000]

they died in the desert

[Orko]

Ten Lost Tribes were the ten tribes that inhabited the northern Kingdom of Israel that broke off from the United Monarchy of Solomon. The Kingdom of Israel was invaded and destroyed by the Assyrians. The Kingdom of Judah, the southern kingdom from the United Monarchy, lasted till the Babylonians took them over. Since then modern Jews see that their ancestors are the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.

What do you think happened to them?

There are groups of people in Africa and India that claim to be Jewish and have Jewish customs. some suggest they are the lost tribes

[IronBlood]

I think the best example of these lost tribes are the modern day Samartians.

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The Samaritans (Hebrew: שומרונים‎ Shomronim), (Arabic: السامريون‎) known in the Talmud as Kuthim (Hebrew: כותים‎), are an ethnoreligious group of the Levant. Ancestrally, they are descended from a group of Israelite inhabitants that have connections to ancient Samaria from the beginning of the Babylonian Exile up to the beginning of the Christian Era. The Samaritans, however, derive their name not from this geographical designation, but rather from the term שַמֶרִים (šāmĕrı̂m), "keeper [of the law]".[3] Religiously, they are the adherents to Samaritanism, a religion based on the Torah. Samaritans claim that their worship (as opposed to mainstream Judaism) is the true religion of the ancient Israelites, predating the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.

The Samaritans have insisted that they are direct descendants of the Northern Israelite tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, who survived the destruction of the Northern kingdom of Israel by the Assyrians in 722 BC. The inscription of Sargon II records the deportation of a relatively small proportion of the Israelites (27,290, according to the annals), so it is quite possible that a sizable population remained that could identify themselves as Israelites, the term that the Samaritans prefer for themselves.

Jewish tradition maintains a different origin for the Samaritans. The Talmud accounts for a people called "Cuthim" on a number of occasions, mentioning their arrival by the hands of the Assyrians. According to 2 Kings 17 and Josephus (Antiquities 9.277–91), the people of Israel were removed by the king of the Assyrians (Sargon II- see special wording of 2 Kings 17 which mentions Shalmaneser in verse 3 but the "king of the Assyrians" from verse 4 onward), to Halah, to Gozan on the Habor River and to the towns of the Medes. The king of the Assyrians then brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avah, Emath, and Sepharvaim to place in Samaria. Because God sent lions among them to kill them, the king of the Assyrians sent one of the priests from Bethel to teach the new settlers about God's ordinances. The eventual result was that the new settlers worshipped both the God of the land and their own gods from the countries from which they came.

Presumely they are the Jews in the Northern kingdom that were left behind and intermixed with Assyrians Settlers. Their religion became different then the Jew of the Kingdom of Judah, centering their worship around Mount Gerizim instead of the Temple of Jerusalem.

There are groups of people in Africa and India that claim to be Jewish and have Jewish customs. some suggest they are the lost tribes

You are probably refering to the Lemba People of Southern Africa. They were never a "lost tribe", they migrated to south Yemen and Migrated over to Africa and then headed south. Their traditions hold that they migrated from Israel 2,500 years ago, the Assyrians were long gone by then. Genetic tests have proven they are related to Jews.

As for the Jews in India, the Bnei Menashe tribe of northeast India claims to be the lost tribe of Menasheh. They however are not "linguistically" Jews as they speak a Tibeto-Burman language.

The other Indian Jews, I read about appear to have arrived in India somewhere between the Conquest of Israel by the Romans and the Sack of Jerusalem in 70 BC.

[Thanatos]

And life continued on.

[Zenith Darksea]

I think the best example of these lost tribes are the modern day Samartians.

That seems to me like a good way of getting around the fact that a lot of Central and Eastern European Jews are descendants of the Khazars who converted to Judaism in the Middle Ages, and so not ethnic Jews. You claim a bloodline going back to the lost tribes of Israel, and hey presto, you have a legitimately Israelite people.

The Sarmatians dropped off the ethnic radar around the end of the Roman Empire in the West, so it wouldn't be a surprised if these 'modern day' Sarmatians are meant to be the Khazars, though what you posted was rather vague about who exactly they are.

[removeduser_487563287433]

Ten Lost Tribes were the ten tribes that inhabited the northern Kingdom of Israel that broke off from the United Monarchy of Solomon. The Kingdom of Israel was invaded and destroyed by the Assyrians. The Kingdom of Judah, the southern kingdom from the United Monarchy, lasted till the Babylonians took them over. Since then modern Jews see that their ancestors are the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.

What do you think happened to them?

Nothing in particular. The same thing the Jews did every time they were frequently conquered.