Eh? Is there a source for this?
The last of the Idumeans were supposed to have been wiped out during the Jewish-Roman war of 70-73.
There sure is evidence:
“There is evidence that in the 6th century BC, some of the Edomites fled their homeland of Seir and migrated north, 'After the fall of Jerusalem, in 586 BC, the Edomites began to press northward (Ezekiel 36:5).”
(
The New Westminster Dictionary of the Bible, ed. by Henry S. Gehman, The Westminster Press, Philadelphia, 1970, p. 418)
At the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 AD, the Edomite Jews became scattered over all of Europe, setting up communities in places such as southern Gaul, Germania Inferior (Holland), and along the banks of the Rhine and Danube Rivers in Germany.
“… the Idumeans (Edomites) were…made Jews…and a Turkish people (Khazars) were mainly Jews in South Russia…The main part of Jewry never was in Judea and had never come out of Judea.”
(H.G. Wells,
The Outline of History, 3rd ed., MacMillian, p. 494).
“Edom is in Modern Jewry.”
(
The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1925 edition, vol. 5, p. 41)
“Strictly speaking, it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a ‘Jew’ or to call a contemporary Jew an ‘Israelite’ or a ‘Hebrew.’”
(
The Jewish Almanac, Compiled and Edited by Richard Siegel and Carl Rheins (New York: Bantam Books, 1980) p. 3.)
Thus we have it from Jewish sources, such as the
Jewish Encyclopedia and the
Jewish Almanac, that Jews are of Edomite stock.
In addition, the so-called ‘Turkic’ people mentioned above (the Khazars) claimed that their original homeland was in the land of Edom as we can see from this quote from the
Jewish Encyclopedia under the entry of ‘
Chazars’:
“Hasdai ibn Shaprut, who was foreign minister to Abd-al-Rahman, Sultan of Cordova, in his letter to King Joseph of the Chazars (about 960 AD) … speaks of the tradition according to which the Chazars once dwelt near the Seir Mountains.”
(
The Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol. 6, p. 372; or see ‘
Chazars’)
The ‘Seir Mountains’ are none other than the original land of Esau. (Genesis 36:8). The Seir mountains were the home of the Edomites for nearly a millennium (The Edomites arrived in Edom or Seir at the end of the 14th and beginning of the 13th century BC. It is quite likely the the aforementioned Edomites who fled north in the 6th century BC, settled in the area of Russia, once known as Khazaria, intermingling with the native Turkic* peoples of the region adopting their Shamanism. In the 9th Century AD, these Khazars converted en masse to Judaism (Pharisaism) when King Bulan invited Babylonian/Edomite Perushim (Pharisees) into Khazaria. Eventually they and their families settled in the region, intermarrying with the native Khazar/Edomite population. This is the origin of many Eastern European (Ashkenazi) Jews. They make up at least 90% of modern Jewry. Every Israeli Prime Minister has come from this heathen background.
- There is an old tradition which speaks of the Turks as being descendants of Esau as well.
or what that was like.