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✝️ The Bible and contemporary apocrypha tells us that the jews tried to steal the Israelite identity about 80 years before Christ. Part 1: Apocrypha reveals a hidden truth about the jews. The Psalms of Solomon, which is a Biblical Apocrypha rediscovered in the 17th century* states that the Hasmoneans (Macabees) were not of Davidic Stock and were resented "aliens" and "foreigners" to the 12 Tribes. -- Quote: "The eschatological restoration envisioned by Ps. Sol. is therefore not merely the “hope that all Jews [sic] will return to Jerusalem” or “the release and return of the dispersed Jews to Israel,” as is frequently suggested, since Ps. Sol. nowhere mentions “Jews” (Ioudaioi). Rather, these psalms hope for restoration and return for Israel – including all of the non-Judahite tribes – from their dispersion among the “mixed nations (συμμίκτων ἐθνῶν)” (17:15; cf. 9:1–2). Moreover, in contrast to the Hasmonean or Herodian kingdoms, which were ruled by non-Davidic stock** and did not include the plenum of Israel, Ps. Sol. look forward to the day of the Davidic Messiah***, who will gather the tribes of Israel and rule in righteousness as promised. The bitter indictment of the “sinners” who set up a non-Davidic kingdom in 17:4–6 and the foreigner who took their place illustrates the first concern the passages quoted above illustrate the second – these two themes appear to work together in this corpus, most evidently in Ps. Sol. 17, and throughout Ps. Sol., “Israel” terminology is employed in contexts closely linked to restoration eschatology." From the book "The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism" Chapter 11: Israel in Second Temple Eschatological and Apocalyptic Literature Pages 357/358. --- Notes: * The Psalms of Solomon appears in copies of the Septuagint and the Peshitta but were not included in the KJV. They are referred to in early Christian writings but lost to later generations. ** The Hasmoneans (Maccabees) were ultimately descendants of the southern tribes, and a priestly class (Sadducees that opposed Jesus) who had returned from the Babylonian exile, over 370 years earlier, and appeared in the historical record in 167 BC in Judea. They were mostly likely corrupted with paganism and inter-mixing from Babylon, which is why the first Christian Martyr Stephen accused the Sanhedrin (Sadducees/Scribes/Pharissees that opposed Jesus) of worshiping Remphan and Moloch. This is the beginning of proto-judaism. *** Psalms of Solomon sets up Jesus as the Davidic Messiah who is in contrast to the jewish Hasmonean who were trying to steal the Israelite identity.