ANGLO-ISRAELITE THEORY, the contention that the British
people in the United Kingdom, its colonies, and the United States, are
the racial descendants of the "ten tribes" forming the kingdom of
Israel, large numbers of whom were deported by Sargon king of Assyria on
the fall of Samaria in 721 B.C. The theory (which is fully set forth in
a book called Philo-Israel) rests on premises which are deemed by
scholars—both theological and anthropological—to be utterly unsound. |
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