Localizing Ashkenazic Jews...

[Lisa]

Localizing Ashkenazic Jews to primeval villages in the ancient Iranian lands of Ashkenaz
http://gbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/03/03/gbe.evw046.abstract

http://s05.radikal.ru/i178/1603/87/812664c5840b.jpg (http://radikal.ru/big/46b68a278c1a4d8281630f111313e3c9)

http://s010.radikal.ru/i314/1603/fc/547e9d229e6d.jpg (http://radikal.ru/big/145eac8ee4c3404eb1cca711e2555ca8)

[johen]

http://s010.radikal.ru/i314/1603/fc/547e9d229e6d.jpg (http://radikal.ru/big/145eac8ee4c3404eb1cca711e2555ca8)

Two questions:
1. Who were the pre-scythian?
2. Which genes make Ashkenazic Jews smart?

[Newman]

Localizing Ashkenazic Jews to primeval villages in the ancient Iranian lands of Ashkenaz
http://gbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/03/03/gbe.evw046.abstract


:picard1:

Do they know what ashkenaz mean?

Ashkenaz is, according to the medieval rabbinic theology, the patriarch of the germanic people, son of Gomer, grandson of Japheth.
Ashkenazim was the name of the jews originated from germanic lands, simply associated by other jewish diasporas by the hebrew name of the people which they lived within, and then extended to every jewish groups of northern Europe.


The association of the term by medieval Jewry with the geographical area centered on the Rhineland led to the Jewish culture that developed in that area to be called Ashkenazi, the only form that the term is still used today.


Why are there some obscur iranian villages coming into the picture?