How many scholars actually believe that Native Americans directly descended from Israelites?

Answer 1

the only ones who believe that fairy tale are the mormons...

my husband is Native American, The Nations find this information very humorous.....

Answer 2

I don't. When you study the ancestry of Man since the Flood, you will find that all of humanity is descended from three patriarchs - Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who were sons of Noah. Gomer was the ancestor of white Europeans, who was a son of Japheth. Cush was the ancestor of black Africans, who was a son of Ham. Eber, the ancestor of the ancient Hebrews, was a descendant of Shem. The Sinites were also descendants of Shem, but not of Eber. The Sinites [where we get the prefix "Sino-"] were the ancestors of the Chinese (and other Mongoloid peoples) and this group includes Native Americans, since they came across from Asia. Also, you will notice that Native Americans and Tibetans are virtually identical in facial features, skin tone, dress and culture. They are probably directly descended from them.
This is why Native Americans cannot be descendants of Eber (ancient Israelites).

Answer 3

Hundreds of years ago, some speculated that indigenous Americans were a lost tribe of israel. This was because the Jewish culture was evidently different back then.

Excerpt from http://home.earthlink.net/~ecorebbe/id15.html
"What these texts most importantly demonstrate is that in its aboriginal form religious dogma and practice are given a back seat to the more immediate emphasis on divine experience through the magic of living, of breathing, and of conscious relating with all the elements of existence in both their spiritual and physical manifestations. "

and

"As helpful as these discoveries were to the age-old tirades against Judaism by the Church, that Judaism was indeed a pagan religion in need of salvation just like the other aboriginal religions, nonetheless the theory soon backfired because the comparison of Judaism to the savage religions inevitably involved Christianity itself since the latter based the validity of its own scriptures on those of the Jews."

Answer 4

Not one.

DNA proves the Native Americans are related to Siberians, not even close to Israelites.

Answer 5

Educated scholars? Probably none.

Answer 6

Which native americans?

And which tribe of Isreal?

Considering Judah is the only known tribe around today (the rest where scattered around the world), it's kind of hard to DNA test for any of the other 11 tribes.

Answer 7

Only Mormon scholars believe in that nonsense. Dna proves otherwise.

Answer 8

Um

not many I would Imagine

Answer 9

none

i thought they came from asians who walked across the land bridge that once was there across the bearing straight

Answer 10

http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/display.php?table=jbms&id=231
http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/dna.php?selection=dna&cat=dna

Hope that helps. :-)

EDIT: Hmmm....all these thumbs down for merely providing a link to some scholars who do seem to believe that Native Americans' origins haven't been exhaustively concluded... Interesting....