DNA tests on the Lemba tribe of central Zimbabwe and northern South Africa show that they are of Jewish or Semitic origin, the BBC reported. (JTA) — DNA tests on the Lemba tribe of central ...
MORE than thirty years ago, Prof. Barton wrote a book on Semitic origins when he was very strongly under the influence of Robertson Smith. Owing to the strides which have been made in the study of ...
The appointment of Dr. Ember was in recognition of his research work establishing that the Egyptians spoke a language of Semitic origin. Dr. Ember, who formerly was associate professor of Semitics ...
He came to the conclusion that the origin of many of the Lemba traditions was indeed Semitic, not African. But whether these traditions came from Islamic or Jewish sources was impossible to ...