When Scotland was Jewish
Subtitle: DNA evidence, archeology, analysis of migrations, and public and family records show twelfth century Semitic roots
By: Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and Donald N. Yates.
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Jefferson NC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786428007
Subjects: Jews -- Scotland -- History; Jews -- Scotland -- Genealogy; Scots -- History; Scots -- Genealogy; Scotland -- History
Genres: Genealogy.
Description: "Much traditional history of Scotland rests on fundamental interpretive errors perpetuated to maintain an origin as Celtic, Christian. This equation of Scotland with Celtic culture in popular (and academic) imagination has buried a more accurate understanding of its history. Research includes census records, archaeological artifacts, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, noble genealogies, portraiture, and place names"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins of Scotland; title: DNA and population studies : "but why do you think they were Jewish?"; title: Genealogies of the first wave of Jewish families, 1100-1350 C.E.; title: Genealogies of the second wave of Jewish families, 1350-1700 C.E.; title: The early Jews of France, 700-1200 C.E.; title: When did Jews arrive in Scotland?; title: To Scotland's Stirling, Ayr, and Glasgow; title: The Knights Templar, Freemasons, and Cabala in Scotland; title: The Judaic Colony at Aberdeen; title: The religions of Scotland : did Presbyterianism have crypto-Jewish origins?; title: Jews in the national consciousness of Scotland : Scott's Ivanhoe.