I have been professor of Old Testament at Northern Baptist Seminary since 1988. I was born in Brazil. I graduated from California Baptist College, Golden Gate Baptist Seminary, The Southern Baptist Seminary, and have done additional graduate work at the Graduate Theological Union. I have pastored churches in California, Kentucky, Missouri and Illinois. I have published more than 200 articles and book reviews in English, Spanish, and Russian. My academic works have been published in The Anchor Bible Dictionary, The Mercer Dictionary of the Bible, The Holman Bible Dictionary, Jewish Bible Quarterly, Perspective in Religious Studies, The Expository Times, Biblical Illustrator, Old Testament Abstracts, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, The Journal of Biblical Literature, and Biblical Archaeologist.
Or, you could just say, "David Cameron's DNA may carry the Cohen Modal Haplotype" and leave it at that.
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Who was it said to be descended from Adam was honor and shame enough for anyone?
Chuck Grantham
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Levites form about 1/25th of the world Jewish population.Regarding Darrell's comments about genetic tracing, Levites (on average) display distinct genetic characteristics to Kohanim; see, for example here or here.
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Hello – I am a direct descendant of Moses – he is my 62 times Great Grandfather. I can trace him person to person in my Family tree
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Claire,
I am glad to know that you are a descendant of Moses. I have to say that I am very skeptical of anyone being able to trace their relatives that far back, but I will take your word that you and Moses are related.
Thank you for visiting my blog.
Claude Mariottini
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I completely understand your scepticism Claude!
https://ancstry.me/2ImlF3o Here is my Family tree – feel free to check it out
I do apologise – Moses is my 58 times Great Uncle not my Great Grandfather.
All the best – Claire
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Claire,
I mean no criticism about your claims. The problem I see is that it is very difficult to keep reliable records over a period of more than 3,000 years. If your records are correct, you belong to a great family.
Claude Mariottini
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