Re: Brithenig: Khazar
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 6, 2000, 1:22 |
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On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:24:00 EDT Roger Mills <Rfmilly@...> writes:
> In a message dated 4/5/2000 12:50:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> bc_@MAIL.RU
> writes:
> << It seems that the Khazar language has its present-day descendants
> in the two dialects of Karaim.
> >>
> IIRC weren't the Khazars a Turkic group? I read Koestler's
> little book
> some years ago and thought it a very plausible theory, tho I gather
> that most
> Jewish thinkers disagree.
.
Is that _The Thirteenth Tribe_? I've never read the entire thing, just
flipped through it a few years ago. I've heard that the author of that
book had some major agenda that they were pushing, so to me that would
make the book at least somewhat suspect. What's Koestler's theory?
-Stephen (Steg)
"your closeness and the closeness of the sea have stolen my sleep..."