Re:Jews: A Branch Of The Vedic Family

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> Re: [ Jesus ] Jews: A Branch Of The Vedic

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Friends,

 

May I offer the following references to the

discussion, one being quite ancient--that of the Roman

historian Josephus.

 

 

 

We learn from him that the “Jews are derived from the

Indian philosophers” He tells us in Apion, Book 1,

verse 22:

 

 

 

“For Clearchus, who was the scholar of Aristotle, says

that ‘Aristotle his master related what follows of a

Jew,’ and sets down Aristotle's own discourse with

him. The account is this, as written down by him:

‘Now, for a great part of what this Jew said, it would

be too long to recite it; but what includes in it both

wonder and philosophy it may not be amiss to discourse

of. I shall herein seem to thee to relate wonders, and

what will even resemble dreams themselves. For this

cause it will be the best way to follow the rule which

requires us first to give an account of the man, and

of what nation he was, that so we may not contradict

our master's directions.’

 

 

 

“This man then was by birth a Jew, and came from

Celesyria; these Jews are derived from the Indian

philosophers; they are named by the Indians Calami,

and by the Syrians Judaei, and took their name from

the country they inhabit, which is called Judea.’”

(emphasis mine)

 

 

 

Dr. S. Radhakrishnan offers confirmation of this

heritage in his book Pracya Mattu Paschatya Sanskriti,

“that the Greeks asserted that the Jews were Indians

whom the Syrians called Judea, the Sanskrit synonym of

which is Yadava or yaudheya, and the Indians called

them Kalanis, [sic] meaning orthodox followers of

scripture.”[1] The characteristic of strictly

following scriptural injunctions is a noted

similarity, and would seem to be a requirement of

anybody to be identified as a Jew. There are other

connections between the Jews and Vedic culture given

by Stephen Knapp in his Proof of Vedic Culture’s

Global Existence.[2]

 

 

 

Please note that the Jews so identified in this

connection are quite different from those who later

became the orthodox Jews of Palestine in the 1st

century. The later, having capitulated to the

occupying forces of Rome were considered as having

abandoned their precepts by their contemporary

counterparts such as Ebionites, Essenes, Sacarii, etc.

 

 

 

 

[1] fr. Stephen Knapp, Proof of Vedic Culture’s Global

Existence, p. 206

 

 

[2] pgs. 138-140

 

 

 

Dhanesvara Das

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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