The History of the Ten "Lost" Tribes

History of the Ten Lost Tribes  (1915)  by David Baron

Preface→

information about this edition.  British Israelism (sometimes called Anglo-Israelism) is a complex set of theories, not necessarily compatible with each other, that have in common the idea that some ancient British people and/or royal lineages were direct lineal descendants of some of the Lost Tribes of Israel. — Excerpted from British Israelism on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This work is intended primarily as a thorough examination and debunking of Anglo-Israelism, the theory that Anglo-Saxons are somehow the actual historical Israel to the exclusion of modern day Jews. The work also tackles to a lesser degree the more common theory of "Replacement Theology" or "Supersessionism" and gives it similar treatment. The author, David Baron, was a Hebrew-Christian, long before that movement, or the often intertwined Messianic Judaism movement, became more widely popularized circa the 1960's. Scanned versions of this text are available on the Wikimedia Commons.

CONTENTS

Preface

PART I.

I. Anglo-Israel Assertions and Claims

II. The Way Anglo-Israel Writers Interpret Scripture

III. Fictitious Histories of the Tribes

PART II.

I. Are the Tribes Lost?

II. The Condition of Things at the Time of Christ

III. The Testimony of the New Testament that the "Jews" are Representative of "All Israel"

IV. Early Misconceptions and Confusion on the Question of the Ten Tribes

V. The Testimony of Prophecy in the Light of History

VI. A Solemn Warning

PART III

Notes and Explanations

I. Anglo-Israel "Proofs" of a Separate Fate and Destiny of "Israel" and "Judah"

II. The Promise to the Fathers of a Multitudinous Seed

III. The Perpetuity of the Davidic Throne

IV. The So-Called Historic Proofs of Anglo-Israelism

V. "The Gate of his Enemies"

APPENDIX

Are We the Ten Tribes? By the late Horatius Bonar, D.D.

Other Works by David Baron

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1926, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.