DNA analysis of 93 ancient remains from Israel, Lebanon, and Jordan reveals that modern Jews and Arabs share more than half their ancestry with the Bronze Age Canaanites—showing that ancient Israelites and their neighbors descended from a genetically cohesive Canaanite population.
www.biblicalarchaeology.org
So, it turns out that theory of the Jews being Edomites is probably true. 50% Canaanite DNA is way more than I expected. Assuming the original Edomites were 1/3rd Edom, 1/3rd, Hittite, 1/3rd Canaanite, and they mixed with the Jews in Judah, that means the Canaanite DNA somehow increased...
I'm guessing all the Jews born without Canaanite DNA end up converting to Christianity.
On the flip side, since they did mix, they still have DNA from Judah, if from Edom as well.
This is the real reason s Jew recoils when you call him a Jew.
Their Edomite ancestry hates Jews. They hate themselves.
As for the pure blooded Jews that followed Christ? (By pure blooded I just mean without Edomite DNA).
- Dispersion within the Roman Empire: Early Jewish Christians, like other Jews of the time, were part of a large diaspora throughout the Roman Empire, establishing communities across the Mediterranean basin, including in Syria, Asia Minor (modern Turkey), Greece, Egypt, and Rome itself. This movement was driven by trade and the existing network of synagogues.
Obviously, some of the Edomites or those with mixed blood would have converted as well. If likely many less.
I find it funny that Syria, Turkey, Greece and Egypt all became the centers of Orthodox Christianity, Rome also had pure blooded Jews.
Obviously this is all conjecture, I don't know how much the genetics affect behaviour, but the fact it seems to all add up so well is very interesting.
