mark9950

The British people may claim that their people are descendent of Ancient King David.

But yet they do not have an ancient middle east language dialect in their language such as hebrew or its dialects.

How could they make that claim?

Celsus

You must be joking. Off to ~Elsewhere~, courtesy of BC&H.

/me waves at the poor ~E~ mods who've been inflicted with this thread.

Joel

contracycle

When the goths migrated across the roman empire, they wandered, like moses, in thre "wilderness" for 40 years. They therfore concluded that they were the spiritual heirs of the israelites and the true chosen people of god. This entered european christianity quite strongly, and I suspect that is the origin of the claim.

DrJim

And Jesus visited England too, just because its a nice sort of place. Or so says my English Mrs.

Diadectes

Eh? I've lived in England all my 37 years and I've never heard this claim made once. Or are these the same English people who stop to drink tea at four o'clock every afternoon, and all live in castles in or around London, because beyond that there are only misty moors and bogs? (I know you said 'british', but as we all know Wales and Scotland don't really count )