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Author : Hodge John Mackey
Title : Are not these the footsteps of Jezreel ? An enquiry into some of the historical and traditional evidences of the hebrew descent of the british people
Year : 1877

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When one offers oneself as a fresh labourer in a field where others are already toiling, especially when it is necessary to make ttse of much which these others have wrought out, it is fitting that the new comer should be able to show in what respect he considers that his help will be of advantage. This, then, the writer proposes to do at the outset, and for this purpose it will be best to give an account of holv he was led to the idea of publishing the results of his own inquiries for the sake of others who may be interested in the Anglo-Israel discussion. The writer belongs to a local society of believers and inquirers in regard to the-Identity of the British and the Lost Tribes. It came to his tum to deliver one of the monthly lectures on the subject, and he felt that it might be useful if he tried to gather together the leading facts collected by inquirers into the historical and traditional side of the argument, trying to separate what was certain or highly probable from what seemed to him unsupported theories; and, at the same time, endeavouring to weave in a few connecting links which he had discovered in his own reading, so as to bring in to one clear and concise whole what appeared to him to be lying about in a somewhat obscure and somewhat fragmentary state. ...