Friday, July 10, 2009

A Modern-day Descendant of Moses

Moses was the great Hebrew leader who brought Israel out of Egypt.

His cousin is alive today.

Read the story here.

Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary

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3 comments:

Darrell Pursiful said...

Or, you could just say, "David Cameron's DNA may carry the Cohen Modal Haplotype" and leave it at that.

goulablogger said...

Who was it said to be descended from Adam was honor and shame enough for anyone?

Chuck Grantham

Theophrastus said...

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.