Jewish mtdna not middle eastern

[Mark]

I think you might not have read the entire post, the only was to have a direct connection to the middle eastern Jews of the bible is to have the Y Chromosome ( Kohanim ) it does not mean that you are not Jewish if you don't have it.. It just means you are not middle eastern.

Ah, okay. I thought you were only referring to the Y-DNA haplogroups.

[TheForeigner]

How come so many romans and other europeans would have converted to judaism though? And why mainly females and few men?

[TheForeigner]

bump

[Longbowman]

How come so many romans and other europeans would have converted to judaism though? And why mainly females and few men?

We'll never know, but they did.

At one point perhaps as many as 10 million converts existed in the Roman empire.

[TheForeigner]

We'll never know, but they did.

At one point perhaps as many as 10 million converts existed in the Roman empire.

Yes that's what it said even in nyt I believe. Seems very hard to believe. How come we never heard of it before? Also are you a jew or what ethnicity or ethnic mix? I'm a balkanic mutt from Romania myself.

[TheForeigner]

I would have imagined they would have been slave girls,more than proper italian romans, but they say italian romans...

[TheForeigner]

Were jewish women somewhere else alone or something? Roman girls were going wild for ''nice jewish boys'' or something? Wow they were filming ''The Graduate'' with proto-Dustin Hoffman and proto-Anne Bancroft!

[Xanthias]

thread is full of crap, N1b isn't a properly speaking a ME hapl anymore (though in the past maybe), Jews are of suistnable part of middle-eastern and nearly european stock (at least ashkenazi jews) nothing to add for it.