When Scotland Was Jewish: DNA Evidence, Archeology, Analysis of Migrations, and Public and Family Records Show Twelfth Century Semitic RootsThe popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names. |
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... heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers were of Jewish decent. We describe how the ancestors of these persons originated in France and Spain and then made their way to 1 ...
... merchants, and nobles from France, Hungary, and the Low Countries during the reign of King David I. At Selkirk in southern Scotland, David granted lands to a group of French monks. Signing the charter were the following noblemen ...
... merchant capital.... The sequence was simple. Merchants from the cities of Bruges, Ghent and elsewhere had su‡cient capital to buy bulk quantities of wool and hides at the summer and autumn markets at Roxburgh, and the abbeys of Melrose ...
... merchants, burgesses and educated members of Scottish society; he attributes this to the emphasis the new doctrine ... merchant guilds, and of co-operation between the burgesses of di›erent towns acting in their common interest, made ...
... merchants and craftsmen, Scotland became an active international trade center. And in each burgh, a small set of ... merchant guild and craft guild respectively. To the burgesses alone belonged the privileges of being members of a ...
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3 Genealogies of the First Wave of Jewish Families 11001350 CE | 44 |
4 Genealogies of the Second Wave of Jewish Families 13501700 CE | 71 |
5 The Early Jews of France 7001200 CE | 79 |
6 When Did Jews Arrive in Scotland? | 88 |
7 To Scotlands Stirling Ayr and Glasgow | 97 |
8 The Knights Templar Freemasons and Cabala in Scotland | 131 |
Scotts Ivanhoe | 205 |
Raw Scores for Participants in Melungeon DNA Surname Project | 215 |
Naming and Jewish PriestKings | 218 |
Early Jewish Names in France and England | 220 |
Davidic Jewish Genealogies | 229 |
Border Reiver DNA | 232 |
Chapter Notes | 233 |
Bibliography | 247 |
9 The Judaic Colony at Aberdeen | 152 |
Did Presbyterianism Have CryptoJewish Origins? | 192 |
Index | 253 |