Het BBC-nieuws bericht dat in Zimbabwe een joodse stam werd ontdekt. DNA-tests bevestigen dat het werkelijk om joodse mensen gaat. Ze hebben ook een belangrijk religieus symbool, een replica van de Ark van het Verbond.
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Their oral traditions claim that their ancestors were Jews who fled the Holy Land about 2,500 years ago.
It may sound like another myth of a lost tribe of Israel, but British scientists have carried out DNA tests which have confirmed their Semitic origin.
These tests back up the group's belief that a group of perhaps seven men married African women and settled on the continent. The Lemba, who number perhaps 80,000, live in central Zimbabwe and the north of South Africa.
(...) And they also have a prized religious artefact that they say connects them to their Jewish ancestry - a replica of the Biblical Ark of the Covenant known as the ngoma lungundu, meaning "the drum that thunders".
Het hele BBC-bericht lees je hier.
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