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Chapter 10 |
Claims made in "Chapter 9: The Outcasts of Israel"
120
Author's source(s)
- No source given.
Response
128-129
Claim
- The Lemba can be genetically tied to the line of Aaron.
Author's source(s)
- Webber Ndoro, "Great Zimbabwe," Scientific American, Nov. 1997, 62-67.
- Tudor Parfitt, Journey to the Vanished City: The Search for a Lost Tribe of Israel, 1997.
- Thomas, et al., "Y Chromosomes Traveling South: The Cohen Modal Haplotype and the Origins of the Lemba 'Black Jews of Southern Africa'," American Journal of Human Genetics 66:674-86 (2000).
- Ezra 2꞉35
Response
- This is irrelevant for a Book of Mormon context. Only 2% of modern Jews can be identified by genetic testing.
- Lemba and Cohen modal haplotype
129
Claim
- In Mesoamerica, there is no genetic support for European lineages.
Author's source(s)
- No source given.
Response
- Most Church experts do not expect to find such genetic support.
- Book of Mormon/DNA evidence