{"id":14290,"date":"2013-01-09T05:45:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T10:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=14290"},"modified":"2013-01-10T20:35:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T01:35:31","slug":"has-the-lost-tribe-of-mannaseh-been-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2013\/01\/has-the-lost-tribe-of-mannaseh-been-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the lost tribe of Mannaseh been found?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A tribal community in India that calls itself Bnei Menashe (Hebrew for \u201cchildren of Mannaseh\u201d) is claiming to be the the remnant of the Hebrew tribe of Mannaseh, one of the \u201clost tribes\u201d that was taken into captivity by the Assyrians some 3000 years ago.\u00a0 And the state of Israel is recognizing their legitimacy by according them the \u201cright of return,\u201d whereby all Jews are allowed to immigrate to Israel.\u00a0 Some of the Bnei Menashe have moved to Israel, which some Christian groups are hailing as the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.\u00a0 See\u00a0\u2018Lost Tribe\u2019s\u2019 Return to Israel Fulfilling Prophecy? \u2013 Inside Israel \u2013 CBN News \u2013 Christian News 24-7 \u2013 CBN.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\nThe tribe does seem to have some traditional songs and legends with echoes of the Exodus.\u00a0 But according to the\u00a0Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0article, the Bnei Menashe are part of a larger tribal culture of animists and headhunters that converted to Christianity in the 19th century.\u00a0\u00a0 In 1951, a Pentecostalist preacher in the tribe said that he had a vision from God that the people should turn back to their ancient religion of Judaism.\u00a0 (So do the Christians getting all excited about this believe that this was the work of the Holy Spirit?\u00a0 Telling people to give up their Christianity?)\u00a0 So about 9,000 of the group adopted Judaism.\u00a0 (The tribe of Mannaseh would have known only the sacrificial system of the Temple, in the unorthodox version of the northern tribes.\u00a0 That was quite different from the Judaism that arose after the destruction of the Temple.)\u00a0 The larger population of the ethnic group, the Chin-Kuki-Miso remained Christian and oppose this movement.\n

The CBN article linked above says nothing about the recent history of this group, but reports the return of Mannaseh as simple fact.\u00a0 That the modern state of Israel is taking this seriously, though, is interesting, though the official rabbis are requiring the Bnei Menashe to undergo an orthodox conversion process, just in case.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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