The Los Lunas stones are a hoax with Samaritan form and Josephus says that Samaritans are Sidonians (Canaanites). Only Negros are the Israelites - the Northern Kingdom never came to Amerikkka. Quote from article: If these claims about the inscription are correct, then it shows extraordinary carelessness. The Decalogue is one of the best known passages of the Bible and for anyone whose native tongue was Hebrew, it ought to have been all but impossible for the inscriber to make elementary errors. They did, though. In some places, the text is abbreviated; this is not unusual in ancient inscriptions, but in something so important as the Decalogue, it is surprising. The writer also changed the word order from the original Hebrew, something a person who believed in the inspired and unchangeable nature of the supposed words of Moses would never have done. Equally damning is the inscriber’s use of what is known as a ‘caret’. This is the upside-down V placed under a piece of text where something has been missed out. Sometimes found in ancient Latin and Greek texts, it is not known in Hebrew until the Middle Ages. To make matters worse, it is above a dot that seems to be a full stop (or period); full stops did not exist in ancient Hebrew. Moreover, there are Greek letters of a slightly later date mixed in with Hebrew forms and some eccentric uses. For instance, Hebrew א (’aleph) is treated as a vowel – the letter shape became our letter A – but in Hebrew it was a consonant; the writer muddles כ (kaph) and ק (qoph), sounds that are distinct in Hebrew but both of which are approximately rendered by English K). The inscription uses Greek δ (delta), ζ (zeta), κ (kappa (reversed)) and τ (tau) in place of their Hebrew counterparts ד (daleth), ז (zayin), כ (kaph) and ת (taw). According to its supporters, this is evidence for a Greek influence. The greatest problem is that the inscription uses an archaic form of א ’aleph. Also, the letters י (yodh), ק (qoph) and ש (the flat-bottomed shin) are said to be Samaritan in form. Viewed dispassionately, the Los Lunas inscription is a clear, but well constructed forgery (for its day). Despite the claims of high antiquity, there are features of the text (such as the mixing of letter forms between two separate alphabets) that are much more likely to derive from the work of a modern forger than from an ancient Hebrew or Samaritan scribe. The evidence for its origin is poor, but a comparison with the Bat Creek Stone suggests that it was a Mormon forgery. The ‘Mormon Battalion’, which was part of the US Army during the Mexican War, is known to have marched from Santa Fe down the Rio Grande Valley, passing close by, and it is possible that this is the date of the inscription. What does Josephus tell us in Antiquities of the Jews about SAMARITANS? Book 10, Chapter 9, section 16 & 17 Now as to Shalmanezer, he removed the Israelites out of their country, and placed therein >>>the nation of the CUTHEANS, who had formerly belonged to the inner parts of PERSIA and MEDIA, but were then called SAMARITANSHe also enjoined the Idumeans and SAMARITANSSAMARITANS, who were STILL ENEMIES to the tribes of JUDAH and BENJAMIN,>When the CUTHEARTS heard this, for the SAMARITANS have that appellation (NAME OR TITLE) >>Now there was one Sanballat, who was sent by Darius, the last king [of Persia], into Samaria. He was a CUTHEAM by birth; of which stock were the SAMARITANS also.>so that he willingly gave his daughter, whose name was Nicaso, in marriage to MANASSAH,>the SAMARITANS, who had then SHECHEM for their metropolis, (a city situate at Mount Gerizzim, and inhabited by apostates of the Jewish nation,) seeing that Alexander had so greatly honored the Jews, determined to profess themselves JEWS;>they immediately PRETEND to have communion with them, saying that they belong to them, and derive their genealogy from the posterity of JOSEPH, EPHRAIM, and MANASSEH (NORTHERN KINGDOM). >he asked who they were that made such a petition; and when they said that they were Hebrews, but had the name of SIDONIANS, living at SHECHEM, he asked them again whether they were Jews; and when they said they were NOT JEWS
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