Hindutva-christianity active in India!
VEDAPRAKASH
The Christian-Hindutva nexus: Ever since Mr. K. S. Sudharshana, the RSS Chief had “dialogue” with the Christians in Kerala[1] and Karnataka[2], the Sangh-Parivar and Christians have come close together[3]. They are evidently coming to common acceptable meeting-points to resolve the problems. In Kerala, particularly, they have been at logger-heads, inflicting damage to both the parties.
Dialogue in AP? In Andhrapradesh, a Christian group has been working within the Sangh-parivar organization and spreading new brand of “research” exploiting the sentiments of Telugu-speaking people. In a just concluded “National Seminar on Krishna River” at Vijayawada, a crypto-Christian[4] with Hindu name who asserts that he “has buried all religions”, “presented” a paper “Krishna River in Bible”. Just like a propagandist preacher or pastor, he just went on repeating that the word “kishon” is found in the Old Testament! He even pointed out that “Ram” was there at that time known by the Jews! His church-affiliation has been more revealed in his own way of using certain key-words in his “evangelical way of speech”! The researchers and delegates of the conference were totally taken aback by his talk, as it had no relevancy.
The Kishon River of Bible and Krishna River: When one delegate openly encountered him asking how he could relate that “kishon” with “Krishna” river of AP, he started telling that they have been conducting research in this regard and a lady has already presented a paper[5] in Chennai!
Then, I started verifying the so-called “kishon” in the bible:
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Kishon (6 Occurrences)
Joshua 21:28 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs, Dabareh with her suburbs, (KJV WBS YLT)
Judges 4:7 I will draw to you, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin"s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into your hand."" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Judges 4:13 Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, to the river Kishon. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Judges 5:21 The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Kings 18:40 Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Don"t let one of them escape!" They seized them. Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 83:9 Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon; (WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)
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Abut “RAM”, the reference is as follows:
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Ram (Hebrew: רם) is a figure in the Hebrew Bible. He is the son of Hezron and ancestor of King David.
His genealogical lineage and descendants are recorded in 1. Chronicles, Chapter 2 and in the end of the Book of Ruth.
In the New Testament, his name is given as Aram and Arni.
About him is little known, except that he must have lived when the Israelites were in Egypt.
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So, with such philological jugglery, he tries to equate!
Philological interpretation and jugglery now not accepted: Though, the western scholars had definitely depended upon philological jugglery during their research upto 19th and early 20th centuries, now it is not accepted.
It appears that that their activities have been strategic exploiting the Christian politicians, government officials etc., and gets maximum publicity:
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Jews" plea to Chief Minister[6]
Our Staff Reporter in The Hindu dated Thursday, Jun 30, 2005.
GUNTUR: A group of people living at Chebrolu in Guntur district, who call themselves Jews and are members of the Bene Yacob Synagogue, have represented to the Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, to take up their cause during his visit to Israel.
“We have requested the Chief Minister to represent our case for going back to Israel and also help get some sponsors for learning Torah in the U.S. or Israel. During his proposed tour of Israel in the first week of July we expect him to talk to the Israeli Government to permit us to make `Aliyah" (return to Israel)," said Sadok Yacobi.
Synagogue damaged
The thatched roofs of our houses were blown away in this week"s gales and the Synagogue was damaged, he said here on Wednesday releasing a copy of the representation sent to the Chief Minister.
“We propose to meet the Chief Minister personally also before he leaves for Israel," he added.
He claimed that they were descendants of Jewish ancestors, who had migrated from Manipur or Afghanistan during 9th and 10th Centuries, but had no way of proving their identity as Jews, but followed all the traditions for generations.
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More conversion activities are found than the “research” as these dubious groups go on attending conferences and presenting papers on such unhistorical blabbering.
And the “Jews” are now “discovered” everywhere in India!
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In North East India, in the land mass that lies between Myanmar (formerly Burma) and Bangladesh, there lives a small group of people who have been practicing Judaism for more than 27 years. They have not taken on a “new" religion. These people, in fact, have returned to the religion of their ancestors. They call themselves Bnei Menashe[7], descendants of the Tribe of Menashe, one of the ten lost tribes. Also known as the Shinlung, the Bnei Menashe relate their history of exile from the Northern Kingdom of Israel in 721 B.C. across the silk route finally ending up in India and Myanmar. The story of these people is an amazing one. After thousands of years of exile they have rediscovered their roots and are returning to Judaism.
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Surprisingly, such sensational news have been on the increase suddenly in the Indian context!
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“Another tribe seeks rabbinical recognition"
by Shaikh Azizur Rahman ("Washington Times," May 02, 2006)
Mumbai, India - A year after northeastern India"s Bnei Menashe tribe won rabbinical recognition as one of the 10 lost tribes of Israel, another tribe in southern India said it got lost from Israel about three millennia ago and it too has the right to return to the Promised Land.
About 300 Jews living in Prakasham and Guntur districts of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh call themselves Bnei Ephraim, the children of Ephraim, because they think they are descendants of Ephraim, leader of one of the biblical lost tribes.
“It may take some time. But as it happened to our Bnei Menashe cousins, we shall definitely be recognized by Israel and we shall surely be able to return to our homeland, ending this long exile in a foreign land. … We all have to go back to Israel," said Shamuel Yacobi, a leader of the group also known as Telugu Jews.
According to oral tradition, the tribe wandered through Persia, Afghanistan, Tibet and China for more than 1,600 years before settling in southern India in about the 10th century, and its members are living there as impoverished farm laborers.
In medieval India, members of the Jewish tribe were forced to live as dalits, or untouchable Hindus, by the powerful upper-class Hindus before being converted to Christianity by the missionaries in the beginning of the 19th century.
In the 1980s, after Mr. Yacobi, who was then a Christian preacher, visited Jerusalem and learned of the tribe"s Jewish roots, members stopped going to church and built their first synagogue in Andhra Pradesh.
“Simply because we lived in a remote area, without any touch with mainstream Jewish societies around the world for long centuries, we had to live as dalits and Christians in India. But now we are sure that Judaism is our original religion and we are one of those lost tribes from Israel," said Mr. Yacobi, who is now a synagogue leader and running a school in the area to help his community members read and write Hebrew.
British, American and Israeli researchers who worked on the Telugu Jews over the years think their traditions are authentically Israelite in origin, although DNA analysis of the tribe members could not confirm their Jewish roots.
One representative from the chief rabbinate visited the Telugu Jews in Andhra Pradesh several years ago. However, unlike the Bnei Menashe, Bnei Ephraim Jews have not been recognized by Israel as a biblical lost tribe[8].
Many think the Bnei Ephraim Jews are trying to escape poverty and that they want to leave this region of Andhra Pradesh where six successive years of drought and crop failure have driven more than 3,000 peasants into debt and to suicide[9].
“They are among the poorest of Jews in the world. They are desperate for the recognition by Israel"s chief rabbinate simply to be guaranteed a passport from that country where they can lead a much better life — away from this life of poverty and hunger," said Chandra Sekhar Angadi, a social scientist in the neighboring state of Karnataka.
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Their stories[10] have been typical and it is not known how the Jews or Christians involved in such affairs consider and encourage.
Had the “Abraham” been from Andhra, why then the Mohammedans and Christians have been creating hell of problems in India?
They could have allowed Hindus to continue their lives without any meddling with their conversion activities. But, conversion continues proves that they have some-other non-religious agenda.
Just, they released a “Hindu-Bible” to fool Hindus quoting from Vedas, Upnanishads etc.
Thus under prevailing conditions, this type of Jewish interpretation, biblical misrepresentation and Christiab exploitation etc., pose danger to the Indian freedom!
VEDAPRAKASH
11-11-20008
[5] Though, he could not name the paper presenter, later, I could know that it was Samyuktha Koonaiah, a young research scholar of Potti Sriramulu Telugu University in her presentation at a seminar on `Telugu History and Culture" on the concluding day of the three-day All India Telugu Conference here on Sunday June 4, 2007. She quoted epigraphic evidence traced from Bahrain in support of her argument.
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