The Khazar Theory - 9:59 PM, 8/5/2011 |
The Khazar Theory Bernard Pyron On a Christian forum there has been discussion of the theory that Jews, or Ahkenazi Jews, are really descendants of the Non-Semitic Khazars. Khazaria was an area between the Black and Caspian Seas where people mostly of Turkish descent lived in the seventh to tenth centuries. The Khazar theory says that Jews today, or just Ashkenazi Jews, are not racially Jews, but are descendants from the Turkic tribe of Khazars, whose ruling class and some others converted to Judaism in the 8th or early 9th century. The Thirteenth Tribe (1976), by Arthur Koestler, helped to spread the Khazar theory. On http://www.khazaria.com/genetics/abstracts.html they report a number of genetic studies on Jewish populations. "The main ethnic element of Ashkenazim (German and Eastern European Jews), Sephardim (Spanish and Portuguese Jews), Mizrakhim (Middle Eastern Jews), Juhurim (Mountain Jews of the Caucasus), Italqim (Italian Jews), and most other modern Jewish populations of the world is Israelite. The Israelite haplotypes fall into Y-DNA haplogroups J and E. Ashkenazim also descend, in a smaller way, from European peoples from the northern Mediterranean region and even less from Slavs and Khazars. The non-Israelite Y-DNA haplogroups include Q (typically Central Asian) and R1a1 (typically Eastern European)." "The 185delAG breast cancer mutation is found among both Ashkenazim and Moroccan Jews." " Many Spanish-speaking Latinos of the American Southwest are descended from Anusim (Spanish Jews who were forced to convert to Catholicism)." "There are known skeletons of Khazars from the Don-valley (Sarkel, Semikarakovskoye, etc.) and from the Crimea (e.g., Sudak). It is important to note that Khazarian skeletons and North Caucasian Turks have not yet been used to compare Jewish genes with likely traces of the Khazars. Thus, the Khazar theory has not really been put to the genetic test yet." But whether there might be some bit of evidence in favor of the Khazar theory, or whether it is totally false, does not matter because we want to argue from what scripture states and from inspiration from the Holy Spirit rather than from a man-made theory. You don't want to use the theory that Ashkenazi Jews are primarily Khazar and not Semitic to try to refute the teachings of dispensationalism, the Hebrew Roots Movement, the Sacred Namers, most Messianic Judaism groups, Christian Identity theology and the Mormons that the Hebrews are, by their genetics, still God's chosen people. You want to use Scripture to refute the Jewish supremacy teachings, or Hebrew Supremacy in the case of the Christian Identity people. Christian Identity followers say Germanic and Celtic people are descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel (the Hebrews of the Nothern Kingdom called Israel) and they generally oppose Jews. The spiritual battle of the little Remnant who try to hold up the truth of the New Testament to instruct many as Daniel 11: 33 says to bring a group larger than that small Remnant out of the false doctrine of Jewish supremacy and out of the churches lies in using scripture. Using race theories about the Khazars just allows Ol Scratch to mess up that spiritual battle, because the Lord is not going to support it. Ephesians 6: 14 says to stand, having your loins girt about with truth, and verse 17 commands us to take up the spiritual sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Its a spiritual battle and the battle is going to grow in intensity, and without the Spirit and the word of God, you don't really go out on the field and do battle. You can't battle spiritually with a worldly theory. At the Cross entry into the Kingdom was no longer by blood lines, but all had to be born again in Christ. This truth is what we use in the spiritual battle. And - this truth makes the argument from a race point of view of no value, whether you argue for or against the Jews being the chosen people because of their blood lines. In other words, using the Khazar theory to show that the Jews are not descended from Abraham involves a focus again on race. In the transformation or translation of physical Israel into that other Israel which Paul points to in Romans 9: 8 and Galatians 4: 26, race was totally done away with. In that transformation to Israel reborn in Jesus Christ, there is no place given to race (Galatians 3: 28) It doesn't matter about the Khazar theory because there is no place for race in God's New Covenant. The New Testament, in Paul's writing in Romans (2: 28-29, 9: 6-8) and Galatians (3: 28-29, 4: 24-26), but also by Peter, especially in I Peter 2: 9, argues from Holy Spirit inspiration, which is far better than the Khazar theory, that there is no more entry into the Kingdom of God by genetics. I Peter 2: 9 explains that Christians are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, and holy nation, a peculiar people..." |
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