Yes, there was. Here is the headline and the first sentence or so, from the NY Times online site:
"May 9, 1999, Sunday
"DNA Backs a Tribe's Tradition Of Early Descent From the Jews
"The Lemba, a Bantu-speaking people of southern Africa, have a tradition that they were led out of Judea by a man named Buba. They practice circumcision, keep one day a week holy and avoid eating pork or piglike animals, such as the hippopotamus. Sev ..."
National Desk
1864 words
By NICHOLAS WADE
I'm not going to buy the article from the archives for your reading pleasure (I've already read it), but you can go to the NY Times online site, get a password if you don't have one, and use an archive search "Jewish genetic" to pull this up. Then you can buy it. It discusses exactly what I mentioned.
Funny, how you missed the article and yet somehow knew it didn't exist. |
