BARON: 10 LOST TRIBES, ANGLO-ISRAELISM/PALESTINE/ 1915

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BARON: 10 LOST TRIBES, ANGLO-ISRAELISM/PALESTINE/ 1915 THE HISTORY OF THE TEN 'LOST' TRIBES: ANGLO-ISRAELISM EXAMINED. BY DAVID BARON. London: Morgan & Scott, 1915. First Edition. Scarce. A nice First Edition copy of this very scarce and fascinating book. Published more than 90 years ago, this book is now long out of print and very scarce. Such a nice copy is not likely to come up for sale again soon on ebay. From the Preface: "A FEW words of explanation are needed by way of preface to this little book. More than twenty years ago, being often appealed to by friends for my judgment on Anglo-Israelism, or to answer questions which were addressed to me on this subject, I finally, after making myself acquainted with the positions and arguments by which the theory is supported, drew up a statement in the form of " A Letter to an Inquirer." This " Letter," somewhat amplified, was printed in the form of an appendix in my book, " The Ancient Scriptures and the Modern Jew," whence by special request it was subsequently reprinted in pamphlet form under the title, " Anglo-Israelism, and the True History of the Ten Lost Tribes " — a separate edition of it having also been published in America. This pamphlet is now out of print, and, being appealed to by prominent Christian friends to bring out a new edition, I felt constrained before doing so to re-examine the whole question anew, and more thoroughly than before. To this end I have read through, with much inward pain I must confess, a number of the more recent Anglo- (or " British ") -Israel publications, which for the most part are mere repetitions of one another. The result is the treatise now in the reader's hands, which will be found to consist of three Parts..."From the first chapter: "DEAR FRIEND, — I shall endeavour to comply with your request, and to give you in this Letter a few reasons for my rejection of the Anglo-Israelite theory. I can sincerely say that I am not a man delighting in controversy, and I only consent to your wish because I believe that you, like many other simple-minded Christians, are perplexed and imposed upon by the plausibilities of the supposed "Identifications," and are not able to detect the fallacies and perversions of Scripture and history upon which they are based. The theory is that the English, or British, are the descendants of the " lost " Israelites, who were carried captives by the Assyrians, under Sargon, who, it is presumed, are identical with the Saxae or Scythians, who appear as a conquering host there about the same time. Or, to quote a succinct summary of Anglo-Israel assertions from a standard work : — " The supposed historical connection of the ancestors of the English with the Lost Ten Tribes is deduced as» follows : The Ten Tribes were transferred to Babylon about 720 b.c. ; and simultaneously, according to Herodotus, the Scythians, including the tribe of the Saccae (or Saxae), appeared in the same district..."Contents include: Anglo-Israel Assertions and Claims; The way Anglo-Israel Writers Interpret Scripture; Fictitious Histories of the Tribes; Are the Tribes Lost?; The condition of things at the time of Christ; The Testimony of the New Testament that the Jews are Representative of All Israel; Early Misconceptions and Confusion on the Question of the Ten Tribes; The testimony of Prophecy in the Light of History; A Solemn Warning; Anglo-Israel Proofs of a Separate Fate and Destiny of Israel and Judah; The Promises to the Fathers of a Multitudinous seed; The Perpetuity of the Davidic Throne; The So-called historic proofs of Anglo-Israelism; Are we the Ten Tribes? by the late Horatius Bonar, DD. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Small 12mo.-sized hardcover book; 85 pages of text & three advertisement pages. Very Good condition book: no torn or missing pages; no writing or markings in the text; no ownership markings. Original hardcover binding with slight fraying to spinetips and corners; bubbling to cloth on covers. A... read more

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