Spread Throughout Middle East: Our Cohen Gene of J1

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                  

       Our races  have spread all over;  so we follow the Y haplotype today of DNA 

       Shabbat Shalom;  from Friday night at sundown till 3 stars in sky of Saturday night---PEACE.  

     IDF Israel Defense Force (young men from 17to 23) for 24 to 34 months) , you don't have to be a Cohen to carry the Cohen gene;  You are called on first to read from the Torah in the synagogue because your father told you that you were a Cohen-also a DNA test proves it..as what happened with my cousin Herb Hochfeld.  The Holocaust was the root of a lot of lost genealogy. 

The Cohen gene seems to be the gene of J1, found in a majority of male Jews of today with the discovery of DNA.  The Genealogy of this line is from Aaron, full brother of Moses.  Moses and Aaron's ancestors go back to their father, Amram, to Kohath, Levi (of the 12 sons forming the 12 tribes of Jacob), Jacob/Israel, Isaac, and Abraham.  Abraham's father was Terah, son of Nahor I, to Seroh-Serug; to Reu, Peleg,  Eber, Shelah, Arpachshad who was born 2 years after Noah's Flood;  Shem-of 3 sons of Noah, and Noah ! 

Moses had 2 sons who were accidently killed by disobeying Moses's direction of being safe while near the ark of the covenant. They were still in their early teens at the time; leaving no children.     

All these sons would have carried the same Y haplogroup of J1.

" Human Y chromosome haplogroup J1-M267 is a common male lineage in West Asia. Haplogroup J-M267, also commonly known as Haplogroup J1, is a subclade (branch) of Y-DNA haplogroup J-P209 along with its sibling clade haplogroup J-M172 ...

One high-frequency region—encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, southern Mesopotamia, and the southern Levant—resides ~ 2000 km away from the other one found in the Caucasus. The region between them, although has a lower frequency, nevertheless demonstrates high genetic diversity. Studies associate this haplogroup with the spread of farming from the Fertile Crescent to Europe, the spread of mobile pastoralism in the desert regions of the Arabian Peninsula, the history of the Jews, and the spread of Islam."

    Our 27,290 Israelites deported to Assyrian Empire by Sargon in 721 BCE.  

Jews, numbering 603,550 had left Egypt and had an exodus of 40 years to get to Canaan. They had lost some of their numbers at the end, numbering only 601,730-having lost 1,820.    They settled according to where Joshua told them was their land on a strip of land.  The 10 northern tribes;  Dan (64,400);  Asher (53,400);  Naphtali (45,400);  Zebulun (60,500);  Issachar ( 64,300);  Manasseh (52,700);  Ephraim (32,500); Gad (40,500); Reuben (43,730); and some of Benjamin (45,600), and some of Simeon (22,200) who stuck pretty close with Judah who had 73,730. 

    Judah, the tiny state,  became a vassal of Assyria the large     empire.  

Ahaz, king of Judah, son of Jotham ruled from 735 BCE to 720 BCE and they were attacked by the northern Kingdom of Israel and Syria at the time when the Edomites and Philistines were attacking his southern territory.  In desperation, he asked Assyria for assistance and they invaded Syria and Israel  even though the prophet Isaiah told him not to ask them.  This caused Judah to become a vassal of Assyria and were also subjected to Assyrian idolatry, which they were very much against.  Becoming a vassal has its problems, all right, owing a lot to the larger and stronger country.  

  Then Israelites were attacked by the Assyrian Empire in 721 BCE by Sargon who carried away 27,290 Ivrim (Hebrews-Israelites; ancient Jews) of the population, the best they saw.   They were taken to Assyria, but also to Media (sons of Japheth-son of Noah, ancestor of 14 peoples in Indo-European language group) , friends of Babylonians in 6th century  BCE)  and then replaced them; with Syrian and Babylonian prisoners. 

124 years later, Babylon, who had inherited all of Assyria's lands and their holdings, attacked Judah in 597 BCE and Nebuchadnezzar (605-562 BCE) took away 8,000 Judeans/Jews of the local aristocracy to Babylon.    

As far as this record goes, this shows 35,290 Jews taken into exile as of 597 BCE which would be 2,620 years ago.  

They returned in 586 BCE  to attack again. It  was on  Tisha B'Av, July 587 or 586 BC, the Babylonians took Jerusalem, destroyed the First Temple and burned down the city.  Jews finally returned in 538 BCE to rebuild the Temple and live in Jerusalem . Most returnees were too young to remember the city.   

Levites did not get any land dispersed by Joshua. Aaron was  from where Cohens come from.   They were to live among their brothers and teach Torah, etc.  Cohens are directly related to Aaron.  Levi had one daughter, Jochebed, mother of Moses.  

Gilead was not one of the 12 tribes.  It was in Transjordan, settled by the tribes of Reuben, Gad and 1/2 of Manasseh.  After 732 BCE attack, then 721 BCE and   the boundaries were not stable; but changed.  

This proves that Jews originally came from the Middle East. 

We are left with 14 million Jews in the world; 0.02% of world population.   

Resource:

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, ASSYRIA, and  NEBUCHADNEZZAR