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"Brit-Am Now"-6
Contents:
1. King David had red hair??
2. Tom Alt: "red-headed devils"
In a message dated 4/26/2002 1:47:08
PM Central Daylight Time, RFermenich writes:
Subject: Re: "Brit-Am Now"- 5: Gog...
>>The Lost Ten Tribes were called "Red
Jews" and were
>>described as all having Red Hair.
Red Hair in the Middle Ages especially in
>>Germany was considered a negative
characteristic and associated with the
>>Jews and with Judas. The Anti-Christ
and Judas were depicted as both
>>having red hair and as both coming
from the Tribe of Dan. The Jews also believed
>>the Lost Ten Tribes to be in Scythia,
in the region by the Caspian
>>Sea. This belief was widespread
and lasted up to ca 1600 ce. Gow quotes
>>David Kaufman (1892): The legend
of the Ten Tribes as future deliverers
>>of Israel was "a faith that was slumbering
in the popular Jewish
>>consciousness all through the Middle
Ages" (JQR, iv, 503-508).Passau Anonymous (1330):
>> It has been said that King
David had red hair. Was it recorded that he
>> had red hair? Also, Judas
was of the tribe of Judah, not Dan.
Answer:
[1-Samuel
17:42] AND WHEN THE PHILISTINE LOOKED ABOUT, AND SAW DAVID, HE
DISDAINED
HIM: FOR HE WAS BUT A YOUTH, AND RUDDY, AND OF A FAIR COUNTENANCE.
"AND RUDDY" in
Hebrew "Admoni" ("Reddish") usually understood to mean red-haired or golden-haired.
"Also, Judas
was of the tribe of Judah, not Dan." -the source is telling us how
popular tradition (especially of Germany) in the 1500s and earlier
saw the situation not how it may or may not have been.
Historically
what do I care what tribe Judas belonged to or if he even ever existed?
If someone says he had ? fingers on each hand (or something like
that) can I prove him wrong?
In the Middle
Ages in Europe Judas was popularly considered to have had red hair and
red hair was attributed to Jewish blood.
This is what
the situation was. It is what the sources say. It is worth taking into
account but no-one is saying that it is an opinion worth defending.