A Pastor Henry posted the following comment on my blog for May 16
th, but I decided to highlight it as an example of Proverbs 18:13.
The person above who commented about the only people who claim Jesus was not a Jew are homeless street preachers and nobodies is an example of people who are prejudice and unwilling to have their ideas challenged. Rather than examine and digesting facts and information they simply breaks out in name calling.
Arthur Koestler and Alfred Lilienathal, two of the sources making this claim can never honestly be called nobodies. Here is some information about these two men.
Arthur Koestler who was Jewish authored over two-dozen books and there has been at least 8 biographies written about him. He was a man of great renown, a member of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, received the Sonning Prize at the University of Copenhagen for his contributions to European culture and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He was a much sought out lecturer in the United States and throughout Europe.
No one can honestly deny the credibility of Arthur Koestler. Pictured at left. In 1976 Random House, a very large b
ook publisher in New York published The Thirteenth Tribe written by Arthur Koestler.
In The 13
th Tribe Koestler wrote extensively about the Khazar Kingdom located in eastern Europe between the Black and Caspian Seas. The online encyclopedia -
Wikipedia - says this about Koestler’s research into the Khazar Kingdom.
"Koestler's book The Thirteenth Tribe advanced the controversial thesis that Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from the Israelites of antiquity, but from the Khazars, a Turkic people in the Caucasus who converted to Judaism in the 8th century . . . "
Jewish researcher and author, Alfred Lilienthal was born in 1915 graduated with a law degree from Columbia University in 1938 . He was a consultant to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco. He was a lecturer, TV and Radio commentator, author of magazine articles and syndicated news pieces as well as columnist with the Nashville Banner, the Arizona Daily Star and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
In 1982 he published, The Zionist Connection II in which he concurs with Koestler and states,
"Therefore, the great majority of Eastern European Jews are not Semitic Jews at all, and as most Western European Jews came from East Europe, most of them also are not Semitic Jews."
You can read more about these men on Wikipedia. Oh, I guess maybe "Pastor" Henry would rather hear of this from the Jewish Encyclopedia itself, published in 1965 with 22 contributing editors It says the Khazars:
"lived along the lower Volga in the region of Crimea, during the 8th-10th centuries, they reached the zenith of their power, and during this period a Judaizing movement took place among them when King Bulan together with some 4,000 nobles adopted the Jewish faith."
The existence of these books are without question and I have all of these and others in my library.
The question you should be asking is, "Why has not this information been more widely distributed? Why am I just now hearing about it? Who has kept this information away from me?"
