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Who are the Red-Haired Peoples of Russia?
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British Royals’ awareness of British-Israelism
How Ancient is British-Israelism?
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Who are the Red-Haired Peoples of Russia?
In March 2025 I stumbled upon a YouTube travel channel, Eli from Russia. The owner of the channel is a red-haired Russian woman. The channel name is www.youtube.com/@ElifromRussia
Above photograph of ethnic Udmurts from IllustrativeDNA.
Above photographs are of Eli from Russia.
Knowing that there were red-haired communities extant in Russia and that they are possibly mixed remnants of a branch of the Kelts who later settled in Ireland and Scotland (and/or a branch of the Aramaeans) , it appears she is an Udmurt who are amongst the ruddiest people on earth. You can read about the Udmurts on various free websites.
One cannot be dogmatic about it, but it is quite likely given Scottish tradition that they came out of Greater Scythia, that may bear witness to the link.
Here is the actual extract from the Declaration of Arbroath, AD1320
“Most Holy Father and Lord, we know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread renown. They journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous. Thence they came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to their home in the west where they still live today.” [emphasis mine]
The entire Declaration is contained below.
Source: Wikipedia
The above map shows roughly where the area of Scythia was, but it should be remembered that various tribes migrated through or from there into other regions. It was not a static ethnic area.
Below are maps of the Udmurt Republic in the Scythian general area:
Source: Google Maps.
You can view a number of videos online about these people:
Above taken from the video The TRUTH About Russian Redheads… (Udmurt Republic).
Ancient Kelts in Central Asia
In my book In Search of … the Origin of Nations I commented on the
“research undertaken by Dr David Law, Professor of Russian. In his work From Samaria to Samarkand. The Lost Tribes of Israel, he provides very powerful arguments for Israelites migrating from south of the Caspian Sea to Samarkand (a derivation of Samaria) in central Asia. The Israelites were initially located in the Harhar province of Persia and were protected by the Assyrian armies and governed by them. There was little option for escape due to the presence of the powerful army and other states in the area.
Within a few years of their exile to Harhar, history records that uprisings occurred there which spread to neighbouring provinces. Sargon, king of Assyria managed to suppress them, but not Harhar. This permitted many Israelites to eventually move out of the region into central Asia, Samarkand, Sogdiana in particular. Here the peoples are recorded as portraying similarities to the Israelites which he details. Later still many of them were known as the Yueh-Chi, described everywhere as White people of Nordish appearance. Nearby were the related Ta-hai or Tocharians who are shown to be Keltic in physical type (pp. 2, 26, 76-77, 95).
“Like the Hebrews of ancient times, who called themselves “the chosen people”, the Yueh Chi, Tokharians, and Sogdians (known by these names) referred to themselves as “the fair people.” This term probably came from a religious connotation, as did that of the Hebrews earlier, as well as from their light skin color. In this way, the term applied to all light-skinned people in contrast to the darker-skinned Turks, who were coming on the world scene from the east at that time.
“The use of the Hebrew term implies a direct connection with the Hebrew language, which the Sogdians knew from their Samarian ancestors …
“The above reference to the two branches of the Indo-European language family, Iranic and Tokharian, is also significant. The language of the Sogdians (Tokharians) was a Median dialect, which the Israelites learned during their long stay in Media” (p. 96)
“It is possible that some of the Samarians, who became citizens of Parthia, moved with the Parthians into southern Iran”. (p. 100)
For those of you who have studied the Indo-European element which was extant in ancient central Asia and who were knocking on the doors of China, would know that they are described by the Chinese themselves, historians, archaeologists and anthropologists as ‘Indo-European’ or ‘Aryan’ – a Nordish-Keltic physical type. Dr Law’s superb book assists with this evaluation and connection to the Israelites.
Many readers would also have been following the saga of the fair-skinned Nordish-Keltic mummies found in central Asia and China dating back to 2000-3000 BC. Books such as The Mummies of Urumchi by Elizabeth Barber provide a wealth of information for any serious researcher in this area.
To Barber’s astonishment, some of the mummies were buried with Scottish-type plaid fabric which she spends some time discussing. They are so strikingly similar to Keltic tartans in the patterns and weave. In fact, when the heads of the mummies were scientifically reconstructed they found a face that is remarkably similar to the Celts and also the Saxons. She speculates (or is it speculation?) that migrant tribes from Iran (where Israel was exiled) moved both westwards and eastwards, taking with them their knowledge of many skills and technology, including weaving and shepherding, later finding themselves in far western China. Of course, she identifies these mummies with the Yueh-Chi or Yuezhi and Tocharians or Tokharians. Concerning their connection, she asks:
“If the Celts indeed came into Central Europe as miners seeking metal ores, might the Tokharians have left the Caucasus area at the same time for the same reason?” (p. 145)
She claims that there were at least two such migrations about 1,000 years apart. As many of these mummies clearly pre-date Israel, they are therefore descendants of Arphaxad who wondered eastwards, (possibly joined later by descendants of Abraham through Keturah) and later still, certainly by Israelites.
There are no Israelites there today, having either migrated out or mixed in with the local population” (pp. 391-92).
Aramaean Migrations
So, one possibility is that the Udmurts are remnants (though some are a bit mixed with Asiatics) of a branch of the Israelite Kelts that once dwelt in the region.
Another possibility is that they are descendants from the ancient Aramaeans who migrated in ancient time into Europe and parts of Russia. This was discussed in my book In Search of … the Origin of Nations, pp. 245-50.
I noted that:
“There once existed in the Middle East, centred around the territory we call Syria today, a nation of people called the Aramaeans who are often mistaken with Amorites by historians. Their racial type was Nordic or Neo-Nordic. In other words Aram gave rise to a white, fair-skinned people, often-times with blonde hair.
As Dr Gayre in his work on The Syro-Mesopotamian Ethnology of Genesis X wrote:
“... we come to Aram. This refers to the land of the Aramaeans ... These were definitely an Indo-European people, as their features from the Egyptian monuments make plain without any doubt, both as to colour and form.
“They became settled in Syria and in the land of Nahor (Nahoraim) and also in the city of Ur (that which is in Mesopotamia, and not that in Babylon). It was from this city that Abraham emigrated in the first instance ... This then is the stock from which Israel came.
“... at the time of the Patriarch there is even reason to believe that as Syrians they were of northern European type ...” (p. 23) [emphasis mine]
The New Bible Dictionary concurs, warning that the Armaeans are called “Syrians” in the English Old Testament where the Hebrew is “Aram”. In other words they were not Arabic-type peoples which are extant today in Syria and who go by that name.”
To summarise what was written in the book, I demonstrate that they are described as fair-skinned, often blonde, and of Nordic or Neo-Nordic racial type, they were distinct from modern Arabic Syrians. The Aramaeans, associated with the biblical term “Aram” (meaning “high” or “exalted”), were linked to figures like Abraham, Rebekah, and Jacob, and settled in areas like Aram-Naharaim (between the Tigris and Euphrates) and Ur in Mesopotamia. Over time, they were displaced by Assyrian conquests, with many taken captive to Kir near Armenia around 732 B.C.”
In this book, the descendants of Aram’s four sons—Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash—were traced to their modern locations:
Uz: Founded Trachonitis and Damascus, later migrated to northern Mesopotamia, possibly giving their name to the Sea of Azov. Some became the Ozonians/Ausonians in Italy and Spain, while others may connect to the fair-skinned Ussuns/Uzuns in ancient northwest China or the Tocharians.
Hul: Associated with the Alani (or Alans), a tall, blonde people who settled in Armenia after captivity. They later appeared in southern Russia, northern Italy, southeastern France, and northern Spain, possibly linked to the Syanians or Ossettes in Georgia.
Gether: Ancestors of the Goths, who originated in Scandinavia, migrated to Central Asia as the Bactrians, and first appeared in Mesopotamia as the Guti around 2000 B.C. They later split into Visigoths (settling in Catalonia and a few in northern Portugal) and Ostrogoths (settling in northern Italy and some in Austria). NB: more that one peoples could have been called Goths and it is speculated that Israelites may have been among them.
Mash: Linked to the Mesaneans, they settled in Asia Minor near the Moschi (Meshech) and later migrated to southern Russia as the Massagetai. Some became the Moesians/Mazovians in Poland, while others, as Zyrians/Syryenians/Komi, live northwest of Moscow, retaining proto-Nordic traits.
The World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples online throws light on the subject:
“According to the 2010 national census, there are 552,299 Udmurts in the Russian Federation. Udmurts are linguistically and culturally close to Komi and Komi-Permyaks and share similar shamanist-animist beliefs with Maris. Their language belongs to the Permian branch of the Finno-Ugric language family. Most Udmurts live in the Udmurt Republic and Tatarstan, Mari-El, Bashkortostan, Kirov and Perm Oblasts.” (“Russian Federation: Udmurts”, May 2018)
Wikipedia adds to our knowledge:
“Based on linguistic reconstruction, the prehistoric Permians are assumed to have split into two peoples during the first millennium BC: the Komi and the Udmurts. By the 16th-17th centuries, the Komi further divided into the Komi-Permyaks (who remained in the Kama River basin) and the Komi-Zyryans (who migrated north)” (“Komi Peoples”, 25 April 2025).
Dwelling alongside descendants of Riphath and Israel, peoples from different origins have, over time, adopted a single language yet have still, in the main, kept their ethnic identity.
To this chapter of the book, I shall add a section dealing with the Udmurts in some future edition, noting that a number of ethnic peoples are grouped under Ural-Altaic - many of whom are not related directly, but due to affinity, have common languages and customs. The map below demonstrates this clearly.
The remnants of Aramaeans left behind in their original homeland, mixed with other groups like Greeks and Arabs, and none of the original peoples remain in modern Syria, which is now populated by Arabic and Canaanite descendants. But the bulk of Aram’s descendants, characterised as Nordic or Neo-Nordic, are scattered across Europe.
Finally, note the following: “An Aramaean ready to perish was my father” (Deuteronomy 26:5). Of this verse, Rick Aschmann, notes:
“The father of the nation is called a “wandering Aramean” in Deuteronomy 26:5… it is saying that the family is Aramean in origin and ethnicity.” (God Doesn’t Have Favourite Languages, p. 5).
The author is on to something – recognising that this verse is not mere metaphor (ie that Israel has been wondering around like early Aramaeans), but literal too – that Israel is related to Aram, though not directly descended from them.
In relation to this, I have written before in articles and tables/charts about the close relationship of Aram to Israel. Following is basically what was written.
Note the following verses:
“And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.” (Gen 24:29)
“And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.” (Gen 25:20)
“And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.” (Gen 29:16-17)
The Aramaeans were closely akin to the Hebrews racially. Aram is a son of Shem (Genesis 10:22). The Israelites were even taught to say "A Syrian [Aramaean] ready to perish was my father" (Deuteronomy 26:5). In Genesis 24 and 29 we find that the kinship of the Hebrews and Arameans was cemented by the marriage of Isaac with Rebekah, the sister to the Aramaean Laban; and later of Jacob with his daughters. In IChronicles 7:14 the Israelite Manasseh marries an Aramaean woman. This demonstrates the ethnic closeness of the descendants of Arphaxad through the generations to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, with the descendants of Aram.
“Laban (Hebrew: לָבָן, Modern Lavan Tiberian Lāḇān; "White") is the son of Bethuel, brother of Rebekah as described in the Book of Genesis. As such he is brother-in-law to Isaac and both father-in-law and uncle to Jacob. Laban and his family were described as dwelling in Paddan Aram, in Mesopotamia. Though the biblical text itself does not attest to this, Rabbinic sources also identify him as the father of Bilhah and Zilpah, the two concubines with whom Jacob also has children (Midrash Raba, Gen 24)” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laban_(Bible))
“And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.” (Gen 38:6)
“Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house ...
And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.” (Gen 38:11, 13)
“And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.” (Gen 38:24)
“And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman.” (Ruth 4:12)
Some think that Tamar was a Canaanite prostitute – nothing could be further from the truth. The Bible does not explicitly tell us her ethnicity, but implies it.
Tamar was the daughter-in-law of Judah. Her husband died and she was left childless because the Lord killed her first husband Er and then her second husband Onan. As a result she disguised herself so thoroughly that she was unrecognisable and seduced Judah, her father-in- law, and bore his children.
Some ancient traditions suggest Tamar was not a Canaanite but an Aramaean (cf Jubilees 41:1; Testament of Judah 10:1) and this is most likely. However other traditions have her as Israelitish (Genesis Rabbah 85:9; Sotah 10:9).
Yet another tradition “claims that she was the daughter of Melchizedek, king of Salem, who was “a priest of God Most High” (Gen. 14:18). Consequently, Judah judged her according to the laws pertaining to the daughter of a priest (which are set forth in Lev. 21:9) and ordered that she be burnt when he thought that she had become pregnant as a result of an illicit tryst (Gen. Rabbah 85:10).” (http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/tamar-midrash-and-aggadah )
From all that can be garnered, the fair descendants of Arphaxad (from whence descend the Israelites) and Aram did intermarry. Many of them, particularly the Kelts, were red or red-brown haired peoples. The Udmurts appear to be – at last in part – a remnant of this stock.
The Declaration of Arbroath
Below is the complete text of the **Declaration of Arbroath**, translated from the original Latin into English. This significant document, dated April 6, 1320, was a letter dispatched by Scottish nobles to Pope John XXII, affirming Scotland's independence and sovereignty. The translation relies on the most commonly accepted version, although minor discrepancies can be found in various transcriptions.
The part highlighted is of most interest to those who follow the British-Israel belief.
Declaration of Arbroath, AD1320
“To the most Holy Father and Lord in Christ, the Lord John, by divine providence Supreme Pontiff of the Holy Roman and Universal Church, his humble and devout sons Duncan, Earl of Fife, Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, Lord of Man and of Annandale, Patrick Dunbar, Earl of March, Malise, Earl of Strathearn, Malcolm, Earl of Lennox, William, Earl of Ross, Magnus, Earl of Caithness and Orkney, and William, Earl of Sutherland; Walter, Steward of Scotland, William Soules, Butler of Scotland, James, Lord of Douglas, Roger Mowbray, David, Lord of Brechin, David Graham, Ingram Umfraville, John Mowbray, guardian of the realm, Alexander Fraser, Gilbert Hay, Constable of Scotland, Robert Keith, Marischal of Scotland, Henry Sinclair, John Graham, David Lindsay, William Oliphant, Patrick Graham, John Fenton, William Abernethy, David Wemyss, William Mushet, Fergus of Ardrossan, Eustace Maxwell, William Ramsay, William Mowat, Alan Murray, Donald Campbell, John Cameron, Reginald Cheyne, Alexander Seton, Andrew Leslie, and Alexander Straiton, and the other barons and freeholders and the whole community of the realm of Scotland send all manner of filial reverence, with devout kisses of his blessed feet.
Most Holy Father and Lord, we know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread renown. They journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous. Thence they came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to their home in the west where they still live today. The Britons they first drove out, the Picts they utterly destroyed, and, even though very often assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes and the English, they took possession of that home with many victories and untold efforts; and, as the historians of old time bear witness, they have held it free of all bondage ever since. In their kingdom there have reigned one hundred and thirteen kings of their own royal stock, the line unbroken by a single foreigner.
The high qualities and deserts of these people, were they not otherwise manifest, gain glory enough from this: that the King of kings and Lord of lords, our Lord Jesus Christ, after His Passion and Resurrection, called them, even though settled in the uttermost parts of the earth, almost the first to His most holy faith. Nor would He have them confirmed in that faith by merely anyone but by the first of His Apostles — by calling, though second or third in rank — the most gentle Saint Andrew, the Blessed Peter’s brother, and desired him to keep them under his protection as their patron forever.
The Most Holy Fathers your predecessors gave careful heed to these things and bestowed many favours and numerous privileges on this same kingdom and people, as being the special charge of the Blessed Peter’s brother. Thus our nation under their protection did indeed live in freedom and peace up to the time when that mighty prince the King of the English, Edward, the father of the one who reigns today, when our kingdom had no head and our people harboured no malice or treachery and were then unused to wars or invasions, came in the guise of a friend and ally to harass them as an enemy. The deeds of cruelty, massacre, violence, pillage, arson, imprisoning prelates, burning down monasteries, robbing and killing monks and nuns, and yet other outrages without number which he committed against our people, sparing neither age nor sex, religion nor rank, no one could describe nor fully imagine unless he had seen them with his own eyes.
But from these countless evils we have been set free, by the help of Him Who though He afflicts yet heals and restores, by our most tireless Prince, King and Lord, the Lord Robert. He, that his people and his heritage might be delivered out of the hands of our enemies, met toil and fatigue, hunger and peril, like another Macabaeus or Joshua and bore them cheerfully. Him, too, divine providence, his right of succession according to our laws and customs which we shall maintain to the death, and the due consent and assent of us all have made our Prince and King. To him, as to the man by whom salvation has been wrought unto our people, we are bound both by law and by his merits that our freedom may be still maintained, and by him, come what may, we mean to stand.
Yet if he should give up what he has begun, and agree to make us or our kingdom subject to the King of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out as our enemy and a subverter of his own rights and ours, and make some other man who was well able to defend us our King; for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.
Therefore it is, Reverend Father and Lord, that we beseech your Holiness with our most earnest prayers and suppliant hearts, inasmuch as you will in your sincerity and goodness consider all this, that, since with Him Whose Vice-Regent on earth you are, there is neither weighing nor distinction of Jew and Greek, Scotsman or Englishman, you will look with the eyes of a father on the troubles and privations brought by the English upon us and upon the Church of God. May it please you to admonish and exhort the King of the English, who ought to be satisfied with what belongs to him since England used once to be enough for seven kings or more, to leave us Scots in peace, who live in this poor little Scotland, beyond which there is no dwelling-place at all, and covet nothing but our own. We are sincerely willing to do anything for him, having regard to our condition, that we can, to win peace for ourselves.
This truly concerns you, Holy Father, since you see the savagery of the heathen raging against the Christians, as the sins of Christians have indeed deserved, and the frontiers of Christendom being pressed inward every day; and how much it will tarnish your Holiness’s memory if (which God forbid) the Church suffers eclipse or scandal in any branch of it during your time, you must perceive. Then rouse the Christian princes who for false reasons pretend that they cannot go to help of the Holy Land because of wars at home with their neighbours. The real reason that prevents them is that in making war on their smaller neighbours they find quicker profit and weaker resistance. But how readily our Lord Jesus Christ and His Vicar would deem the cause just and right, if the King of the English would leave us in peace, and how willingly we would go to fight the enemies of Christ, you may judge from what we have said.
Wherefore we entreat your Holiness to ponder all this with care, and to urge the King of the English to be content with his own possessions, since we seek nothing but our own, and to leave us in peace. Thus may the Almighty direct your Holiness in all things to His honour and to the good of His Holy Church.
Given at the monastery of Arbroath in Scotland on the sixth day of the month of April in the year of grace thirteen hundred and twenty and the fifteenth year of the reign of our King aforesaid.”
British Royals’ awareness of British-Israelism
Some British king’s and queen’s awareness of British-Israelism is contained in pages 167, 190, 237 of Eric Michael Reisenauer’s thesis here.
How Ancient is British-Israelism?
The following is extracted from my article on ‘Where are the ‘Lost’ Tribes of Israel in the Modern World?’ available here. And more on its ancient roots here.
Cover above: Anglo-Israel; or, The British Nation the Lost Tribes of Israel by Reverent Poole, published in 1879.
Ancient Roots of British-Israelism
The belief that the British and related peoples dwelling in Northwest Europe (and their descendants around the world) are the direct descendants of ancient Israel, has been around for centuries in some form or other.
True, we look through a glass darkly and so many historical records have been lost or yet to be discovered, yet there are enough snippets to point to the ancient roots of this doctrine.
The idea that this doctrine only arose in the late 18th century or sometime in the mid-19th is not true or an accurate record of history.
British-Israelism as it began to gain traction and books published mentioning it (such as that of the Richard Brothers and John Sadler’s) it is important to note that “In either case, each of these grew out of earlier puritan works and Millenarism fervor.” (Levi Keach, Justifying Belief within the Christian Identity Movement: An Exercise in Memetics, University of Kansas, Dec 2011, p. 4)
During 2023 I was reading Aidan Cottrell-Boyce’s, Jewish Christians in Puritan England, Wipf Publishers, Eugene, OR, 2021. I found it fascinating that he revealed that some Sabbatarians seemed to believe in a sort of early British-Israelism. Here are the pertinent quotes:
Some believe that “Judeo-centric millenarianism in the development of British imperialist ideology” (p. 20)
“The claim that Jacobethan England sought to supplant Israel as the ‘chosen nation’ originated in the work of William Haller and William Lamont.” (p. 30)
“The carefully crafted personae of the Protestant monarchs of this period invited comparison between the English monarchy and the rulers of Biblical Israel. Elizabeth was crowned as a new Deborah, James as a new Solomon.” (p. 31)
And the King thought of an “Israelite England” that he was ruling over (ibid).
God works in mysterious and subtle ways – here we have the gradual increase in awareness of the British Israelitish origin.
“In the sixth century, the chronicler Gildas associated England with the polity of Israel.” (p. 33)
Noted Sabbatarian Thomas Totney believed that the Saxons were traceable back to the Biblical Israel:
“The ‘Noble Saxon line,’ meanwhile, could be traced back to Biblical Israel, through:
Media, Persian and Egypt; then into Captivity by Titus Vespasian, and so to Rome, from Rome to France in Charlemagne, from that descent to Henry the seventh. [quoting Tany, Theauraujohn His Aurora, 27)
… The Saxons … appear in the mode of Biblical Israel: noble, Godly and persecuted … Ethnicity is grounded in ethics. Tyranny is associated with miscegenation.” (p. 183)
Thomas Totney referred to himself “as a Jew [ie Israelite] of the tribe of Reuben” (p. 161) and he “traced his lineage back to ancient Israel.” (p. 188)
“The notion that a millennial reign of the saints would dawn, that the Jews [ie Israel] would be repatriated to Jerusalem and that they would be converted en masse, was – to use Howard Hotson’s phrase – an error almost universally condemned.” (p. 19)
But the Sabbatarians and pockets of Protestants such as the Fifth Monarchists held to this view. I studied the Fifth Monarchists in the mid-1970s attempting a study on Church history, the Waldensians etc. I was fascinated how the Fifth Monarchist went against the grain and believed that four kingdoms of man would precede God’s Kingdom on earth – the fifth monarchy. So this pre-Millennialist doctrine was clearly lurking in the background of Christianity, but only a tiny minority held to this view.
Another researcher, Frédéric Herrmann, adds to this information about Puritans and Sabbatarians:
“It would perhaps be more accurate to study the “Traskites,” as they came to be known, from the perspective of the so-called “Judaizing turn” of seventeenth-century England, which was recorded a generation ago by the likes of David S. Katz: the Hebrew revival, the eschatological hopes about locating the lost Ten Tribes of Israel and the subsequent restoration of the Jews to the land of Israel, and in the realms of philosophy and political theory, both in England and in Holland, the rise of scepticism, the consolidation of anti-trinitarianism.” (Frédéric Herrmann, “Antinomians, Ceremonialists, and Judaizers: on the Margins of Puritanism? French Journal of British Studies, Vol. XXVII, No. 3, 2022, p. 52) [emphasis mine]
A number of books and articles concerning the ancient roots of British Israelism are available online here. The collection includes such works as:
A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies and Times by the Richard Brothers (1796)
A History of Greater Britain (1521)
Alexander Cruden (1737)
Rights of the Kingdom by John Sadler (1649)
A View of the Hebrews. Or the Tribes of Israel in America by Ethan Smith (1825)
Le Triomph De La Providence Et Da La Religion by Jacques Abbadie (1654) See pages 177-78)
Ogygia. Or a Chronological Account of Irish Events by Roderic O’Flaherty (1793)
The True and Noble Origins of the Anglo-Israel Message by Alan Campbell
Alfred the Great by Dr Peter Hammond
How Long have we been aware of our Identity? Wake Up magazine, July/Aug 1989, p. 5
How Old is this Anglo-Saxon Truth, Destiny magazine, March 1939
John Sadler (1615-1674) by Pranav Kumar Jain, University of Chicago (2015). “He has also been described as perhaps the first proponent of the powerful idea that the people of England are direct descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.” (p. 8)
Evidence of lost Israel in early annals by Jory Brooks
How Old is this Anglo-Israel Truth? The Kingdom Herald, July-Aug 1981
The Antiquity of the Anglo-Israel Thesis by Reed Benson
Plus much more.
For instance, Alexander Cruden may well have believed in this. I sent the following to my mailing list in 2017:
Did Cruden believe in British-Israelism? Note the portions where he mentions Israel and in particular:
“May the great God be the guide of your life, and direct and prosper you, that it may be said by the present and future ages, that King George the Third hath been an Hezekiah to our British Israel.”
Cover above: Israel in Britain by Colonel Garnier was published in 1890.
According to Wikipedia
“Cruden presented the first edition of his work on 3 November 1737 to Queen Caroline (wife of George II); but she died some days later without rewarding Cruden, who had to go into debt to finance the printing. The second edition of the Concordance was dedicated to King George III and presented to him in person on 21 December 1761; the King awarded Cruden £100 for his efforts. The third edition was published in 1769. After the slow success of the first edition, the second and third made Cruden considerable profit. Here is what he wrote in the foreword:
TO THE KING.
SIRE,
THIS CONCORDANCE was begun with a design to promote the study and knowledge of the holy Scriptures, and the method taken therein is deemed by competent judges to be the best towards a complete Concordance that hath hitherto appeared in our language. It is acknowledged to be an useful book to private Christians who search the Scriptures, and to be very necessary for all the Preachers of the Gospel: Therefore to whom can this new Edition be more properly offered than to your Majesty, now in the beginning of your reign, having already manifested a great regard to religion, and an earnest concern for promoting it among your subjects.
All other books are of little or no importance in comparison of the holy Scriptures, which are a Revelation from God, and are given as the only rule of faith and practice. If the kings of Israel were required not only « to read the law of Moses all the days of their life, but also to write out a copy of it with their own hand, that they might learn to fear the Lord their God, and keep all the words of his law; it may be reasonably expected that Christian Princes should make the glorious Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ their daily study, that it may become their constant guide and rule for the government of their people, as well as for their own salvation.
It hath been often observed, that the most effectual way to a general external reformation is to make Religion a step to preferment, and Irreligion a bar to it; because example has a more powerful influence over the minds of men than precept, or even than punishment. The early declarations and strong resolutions your Majesty was pleased to make at your coming to the throne, That you would encourage those who are religious, and discourage those that are otherwise, rejoiced the hearts of all who earnestly desire the revival of vital and practical religion, and to see your Majesty’s subjects a holy and happy people.
True piety has been in all ages accounted the truest honour ; for Religion diffuses the greatest glory around a human character, and sweetens and embalms the memory of Princes. A pious Prince, who hath shewn a hearty concern for the eternal happiness of his people, as well as for their present protection, will be remembered with great esteem and honour : for the Scripture says, that the memory of the just is blessed. When they are spoken of, it is with praise and commendation by all good men. All other accomplishments, without true grace and real religion, cannot make the children of men happy, who must all die and rise again, and appear before the judgment seat of Christ, to receive according to what they have done in the body, whether good or bad. The memory of Hezekiah, the religious King of Judah, is precious: he hath been celebrated in all ages of the Church for his pious zeal in the reformation of his people at the beginning of his reign; for God honours those that honour him, and they who despise him shall be lightly esteemed. It is said of that pious King, that he trusted in the Lord God of Israel, so that after him there was none like him among all the Kings of Judah, nor any that were before him: for he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses. Hezekiah, like your Majesty, began his reign in his youth, yet his zeal for the worship of God, and for promoting Religion among his subjects, carried him through the great difficulties of reforming a people, who had so much degenerated into gross idolatry.
May the great God be the guide of your life, and direct and prosper you, that it may be said by the present and future ages, that King George the Third hath been an Hezekiah to our British Israel.
I doubt not but your Majesty will pardon my forbearing to enter upon your valuable personal accomplishments : I shall only add that, when it pleased God, the sovereign Lord of life and death, to deprive us of the blessing of your Royal Grandfather King George the Second, the Protector of our Religion and Liberties for many years, it was esteemed a national blessing that God had favoured Great Britain with a Prince born and educated among us, who makes the happiness of his people the rule of his government ; and without Religion there can be no real happiness for Prince or People.
When your Majesty came to the throne, the loyal and affectionate addresses from your subjects in all parts of the British dominions, shewed their great hopes and strong expectations of being happy under your Majesty’s government. We of the British nation have reason thankfully to remember the appearances of Divine Providence in the preservation of our Religion and Liberties, particularly in settling and establishing the Protestant Succession, and in disappointing from time to time all the contrivances and attempts of its enemies, whether secret or open; and in your Majesty’s coming to the throne with the hearts of all your subjects united to you as the heart of one man.
May it please God to bestow his choicest gifts upon your Majesty, upon your Royal Mother the Princess Dowager of Wales, and all the Royal Family, and upon your numerous and powerful People.
May you be blessed, and made a real blessing, and may your reign be long and prosperous; and after you have been enabled to serve God faithfully here upon earth, may you reign forever with him in heaven through Jesus Christ. This is the sincere and earnest prayer of him who is, with great humility and profound respect,
May it please your Majesty,
Your Majesty’s most dutiful.
And most obedient subject and servant,
London, Time 11, 1751. Alexander Cruden.
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TO THE QUEEN.
MADAM,
THIS CONCORDANCE, the work of several years, was begun with a design to promote the study of the holy Scriptures; and, in pursuance thereof, is now published with many improvements beyond any book of this kind in the English language.
Long before this Work was ready for the press, I designed humbly to offer it to your Majesty, and to beg leave to publish it under your royal protection. Your Majesty’s illustrious qualities and example in the great scenes of your valuable life, encourage me humbly to beg your countenance to a well-meant attempt for promoting the knowledge of our holy Religion.
The beauty of your person, and the fine accomplishments of your mind, were so celebrated in your father’s court, that there was no Prince in the Empire, who had room for such an alliance, that was not ambitious of gaining a Princess of such noble virtues into his family, either as a Daughter, or as a Consort.
And though the heir to all the dominions of the house of Austria was desirous of your alliance, yet you generously declined the prospect of a Crown that was inconsistent with the enjoyment of your Religion. The great Disposer of all things, however, kept in store a reward for such exalted virtue, and by the secret methods of his wisdom hath brought your Majesty to a Crown, as famous for defending and supporting the Protestant Religion, as it is conspicuous for its glory and splendor; which is such a return of Divine Providence as is to be admired with great thankfulness, though without the least surprise, since He whose kingdom ruled over all hath declared, that such as honour Him, He will honour.
It was the fame of this heroic constancy that determined his Majesty to desire in marriage a Princess who was now more celebrated for her Christian magnanimity, than for the beauty of her person, which had been so universally admired. We of the British nation have reason to rejoice that such a proposal was made and accepted, and that your Majesty, with regard to these two successive treaties, shewed as much prudence in your compliance with the one, as piety in your refusal of the other. You no sooner arrived at Hanover than you improved the lustre of that court, which was before reckoned among the politest in Europe, and increased the happiness of a people, who were before looked upon as the happiest in the Empire. And you immediately became the darling of the Princess Sophia, a Princess, justly acknowledged to be one of the most accomplished Women of the age in which she lived, who was much pleased with the conversation of one, in whom she saw so lively an image of her own youth.
We daily discover those admirable qualities for which your Majesty was famed in other countries, and rejoice to see them exerted in our Island, where we ourselves are made happy by their influence. We behold the throne of these kingdoms surrounded by your Majesty’s royal and numerous Progeny, and hear with pleasure of the great care your Majesty takes to instil early into their minds the principles of Religion, Virtue and Honour.
Your Majesty is possessed of all those talents which make conversation either delightful or improving. Your fine taste in the elegant arts, and skill in several modern languages, is such, that your discourse is not confined to the ordinary subjects of conversation, but is adapted, with an uncommon grace, to every occasion, and entertains the politest persons of different nations. That agreeable turn which appears in your sentiments upon the most ordinary affairs of life, which is so suitable to the delicacy of your sex, the politeness of your education, and the splendor of your quality, is observed by every one that has the honour to approach you.
But the great regard your Majesty has shewn to Religion, which diffuses the greatest glory around a human character, encourages me to hope that this Work will meet with your favourable acceptance.
May it, therefore, please your Majesty to take into your royal protection this Concordance, the design of which is to render the study of the Scriptures more easy. Whatever may be wanting either in the Work or Author, is abundantly supplied by the dignity of the subject ; which consideration chiefly encouraged me to presume to offer it to your Majesty, whom God hath exalted to the most eminent station, and blessed with extraordinary endowments of mind, and with a benevolent and beneficent disposition: To whom then can I more properly offer this Work than to your Majesty, who is celebrated both for your inclination and capacity to do good?
May the great God continue to multiply his blessings upon the King, your Majesty, and every branch of your Royal Family : May your life be long continued to serve God faithfully on earth, and may you reign for ever with Him in heaven, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
These are the sincere prayers of him who is, with the most profound respect, May it please your Majesty,
Your Majesty’s
Most dutiful, and
Most obedient servant,
London, October, 1737. Alexander Cruden”
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