Cultural Anthropology
Demise of Ephraim — The Lost Tribes of Israel
Demise of Ephraim — The Lost Tribes of Israel traces a single, continuous thread across nearly three thousand years: the story of the tribe of Joseph, split between Ephraim and Manasseh, carrying the birthright promise given to the patriarchs from the Promised Land, through millennia of exile and migration, into the modern nations of Britain and America — and finally into the hidden financial architecture that now governs much of the world's wealth.
The book opens where the northern Kingdom of Israel's story effectively ends: with the Assyrian conquest and exile of the Ten Tribes in the 8th century BC. Drawing on the research of Yair Davidiy and Steven M. Collins, it traces two broad migration streams — one maritime, moving through Phoenician and Philistine shipping networks into Spain, Gaul, Ireland, and Britain; the other overland, moving through the Cimmerians, Scythians, and Parthians before eventually converging with the maritime branch in Western Europe. Along the way, it examines the linguistic, archaeological, and rabbinical evidence offered for this migration, and identifies Britain with the tribe of Ephraim and the United States with the tribe of Manasseh — the "multitude of nations" and the "great people" promised to Joseph's two sons in Genesis 48.
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