The Tomb of Jesus — Page 35
35 "In recent times visitors to Cashmir seeing the names Rahimju, Lusju, Julju, etc. , etc. , common ones among the tradespeople who cater to foreign visitors in Srinagar, written up as. RAHIM JEW, JUL JEW, JUS JEW, have imagined that the bearers of these names were. Jews of nationality! The Jewish cast of features of many of the inhabitants of Cashmir is noted by many modern travelers. "³a 2. " the majority of Eastern writers consider them to be the descendants of one of the ten tribes of Israel—and this is the opinion of the. Afghans themselves. " 66 4 3. “…. . Ferrier is disposed to believe that the. Afghans represent the lost ten tribes, and to claim for them descent from Saul, King of Israel. . Amongst other writers concurring in this view may be mentioned the honoured name of Sir. William Jones. "5 4. "The traditions of this people refer them to Syria as the country of their residence at the time they were carried away into captivity by. Bukhtunasar (Nebuchadnezzar), and planted as colonists in different parts of Persia and Media. За Bernier's Travels, Note 3, p. 430 4 J. E. Ferrier, History of the Afghans, p. 1. 5 Col. G. B. Malleson, C. S. I. , The History of Afghanistan from the. Earliest Period to the Outbreak of the War of 1878, p. 39.