Does anyone know if the Jews of today in Israel are decendants of Jacob or Esau or who are they decendants of?

Answer 1

The Bible tells about the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Abram was a man that God called out of his homeland to follow Him into he did not know what. After Abram obeyed God, He renamed him "Abraham" which translated means "Father of many nations." God promised Abraham a son, but Abraham and his wife Sarah were WAY past child bearing age. Abraham had sex with a concubine named Hagar in the attempt to fulfill God's promise on his own terms, but she gave birth to "Ishmael" who is the father of the Arab race.

So to make a long story short, they finally had the son that God promised to them and named the baby "Isaac" which means, "laughter" because Sarah laughed when God told her that she was going to have a baby.

Isaac had two sons, the first was named "Esau" and the second, "Jacob." Esau was entitled to receive the family inheritance because he was the first born son. But Jacob traded with Esau a bowl of stew to get the inheritance from him, and tricked their father Isaac into giving him the blessing instead of Esau. Genesis 36:8 says, "Esau is Edom" which means he is the father of the Edomites.

Later on, Jacob wrestled with a "man" (Genesis 32:24) which Jacob later recognized to have been God Himself (Genesis 32:30). During this encounter, God changed Jacob's name to "Israel" which is the name that his descendants are called by to this day.

Jacob (who was renamed Israel) had 12 sons by different women, and these 12 sons became the "Children of Israel," or the "12 Tribes of Israel." All Jewish people are descendants of this lineage, which is approximately 4000 years in the making.

Answer 2

Really, we have no way of knowing the answer to that question. In fact, we don't really know that Jacob and Esau actually existed. We have only the claims of some religious scripture, no more reliable than the ancient Roman texts that would have us believe that Augustus Caesar was descended from the goddess Venus through Aeneas, or the traditional Japanese faith that states that a living man, Emperor Akhito, is descended from the sun goddess Amaterasu.
Faith and knowledge are very different things. Do yourself a favor and never confuse the two.

Answer 3

Jews are descendants of Jacob through his twelve sons (twelve tribes). His brother Esau was the father of non-Hebrew semitic peoples in the lands of Canaan. That is why just because a middle eastern person from say Jordan hates Jews, you can't call him an anti-Semite. Because he might also be of Semitic lineage. But the chosen people were definitely chosen by God through Jacob. "Jacob hath I loved and Esau hath I hated. The older will serve the younger."

Answer 4

Since the Jews is a shortened word for the tribe of Judah they are definitely one of the tribes of Israel. Some others that can be traced through migration, etc. are Edom = Turkey, Assyria = modern day Germany, Ishmaelites = Saudi Arabia, Moab & Ammon = Jordan, Hagarenes = anciently dwelt in the land known as Syria, Gebal = Lebanon

Answer 5

The biblical, and only, account of Hebrew (and now Jewish) descent says that Jews as a race root from both Jacob AND Esau, who were reunited after a temporary separation as brothers. Both are sons of Isaac, son of Abraham. From Abraham comes the Jews through his son Isaac and Arabs through his son Ishmael.

Answer 6

Technically, the Jews are descendants of Jacob.

Tidbits; Job is the son of Jacob's son Issachar (Gen. 46:13), and Eliphaz who 'consoled' Job is a descendent of Esau (Gen. 36:4).

Answer 7

http://www.khazaria.com/genetics/abstracts.html

Key findings:

The main ethnic element of Ashkenazim (German and Eastern European Jews), Sephardim (Spanish and Portuguese Jews), Mizrakhim (Middle Eastern Jews), Juhurim (Mountain Jews of the Caucasus), Italqim (Italian Jews), and most other modern Jewish populations of the world is Israelite. The Israelite haplotypes fall into haplogroups J and E.
Ashkenazim also descend, in a smaller way, from European peoples such as Slavs and Khazars. The non-Israelite haplogroups include Q (typically Central Asian) and R1a1 (typically Eastern European).
Dutch Jews from the Netherlands also descend from northwestern Europeans.
Sephardim also descend, in a smaller way, from various non-Israelite peoples.
Georgian Jews (Gruzim) are a mix of Georgians and Israelites.
Yemenite Jews (Temanim) are a mix of Yemenite Arabs and Israelites.
Moroccan Jews, Algerian Jews, and Tunisian Jews are mainly Israelites.
Libyan Jews are mainly Berbers.
Ethiopian Jews are almost exclusively Ethiopian, with little or no Israelite ancestry.
Palestinian Arabs are probably partly Israelite.

Answer 8

technically the bible says Jacob- Israel
Esau-Islam

Answer 9

Jacob, whom God renamed Israel.

Answer 10

Check out the geneology. Only that will tell you the truth.