Y-DNA Haplogroups links Nordic and Germanic people to Arabs and Jews

By Mikkel Stjernholm Kragh

Haplogroups show that the original Nordic and Germanic stock genetically is closely related to Arabs and Jews.

What are Haplogroups?

Haplogroups (Hpg) are major branches on the Y chromosome tree. There are two kinds of Haplogroups:

• Haplogroups for male Y-DNA which is passed on from father to son. Women do not have Y-DNA.
• Haplogroups for female mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is passed on from mother to daughter, but which males also have from their mother but do pass on themselves to their children.

Y-DNA and mtDNA have separate nomenclatures. This study is only about male Y-DNA.

A person’s male Haplogroup only shows the Haplogroup of his paternal line of descent, i.e. his father, his father’s father, his father’s father’s father, etc. It doesn’t necessarily show the Haplogroups which the majority of the person’s ancestors belonged to. The study of Haplogroups therefore says more about populations than about individuals.

Haplogroup IJ

Y-DNA Hpg IJ is made up of Hpg I and J. Hpg I is divided into Hpg I1 and I2.

Hpg I1 is associated with the Nordic and Germanic peoples and where they have spread. I1 is most common in Scandinavia where 40% of the males belong to I1. Hpg I2 is found throughout Europe, except northern Europe, in most of the Middle East and the Magreb countries. Hpg I2 is most common on the Balkans.

 Left: Y DNA Hpg I1

Hpg I1 is no doubt the same as the Nordic race of anthropology and I2 the same as the Dinaric race.

Hpg I is closest related to Hpg J, which is associated with Arabs, Jews and related peoples. Hpg J is common throughout the Arabic speaking world, Turkey, SE Europe, and Iran. Hpg J is most common on the SW part of the Arabian Peninsula. 82% of Yemenite Arabs belong to Hpg J.^[i]

The SW part of the Arabian Peninsula was also where Ishmael lived, according to the Quran 2:127 which say that Ishmael and Abraham built the foundations for the Ka’aba, the cube-shaped building in Mecca.^[ii] Hpg J must therefore be Ishmael. Hpg I must be Isaac. Hpg IJ must be their father Abraham.

Non-IJ Europeans

Most Europeans belong to other Haplogroups than IJ. The most common Haplogroup in Europe is Hpg R1 which more than half of all Europeans belong to. In Western Europe the concentration of Hpg R1 is particularly high, reaching as high as 88% among the Basques and 79% of Ireland. Hpg R1 is also very common in India, Central Asia, and Iran. The distribution of Hpg R1 is by some believed to be connected with the spreading of the Indo-European languages.

According to geneticists Hpg IJ split into I and J app. 35,000-40,000 years ago and Hpg IJK split into Hpg IJ and Hpg K app. 40,000-45,000 years ago. Hpg K turned into several Haplogroups, including

Hpg P which split into

• Hpg R (common among Indo-Europeans)
• And Hpg Q (the most common among Native Americans)

And Hpg NO which split into

• Hpg N (common among Finns, Estonians, northern Russians, and Ugric peoples)
• and Hpg O (the most common among Chinese and other East Asians)

Haplogroups and the Bible

The dates at which geneticists say that the Haplogroups split from each other does present a problem. According to geneticists, the original Adam (“Y-chromosomal Adam”) lived 90,000-60,000 years ago. Bible students have on the other hand usually calculated the creation of Adam to have taken place app. 6,000 years ago. Why these two dates do not agree must for now remain an un-answered question.

God-fearing Christians should not put blind faith in science, as the apostle Paul wrote:

“O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science false so called” (1 Timothy 6:20

However, when tracing the descent of peoples and nations it would be a shame not to use Haplogroups simply because some of the geneticists’ conclusions.

Haplogroups and the exiled tribes of Israel

Biblical history, secular history, the fulfillment of Bible prophecies, along with much other evidence which now includes Haplogroups shows that the original Nordic and Germanic tribes were descendants of the lost tribes of Israel.

According to the Bible the majority of the 12 tribes of Israel were removed by the Assyrians in 721 BC to areas south of the Caucasus. Secular history such as the Icelandic historian Snorri Sturlasson (1178-1241) in The Chronicles of the Kings of Norway (app. 1220) traces the ancestors of the Nordic and Germanic peoples to areas south of the Caucasus.

A population with Hpg I1 therefore indicates that the population has ancestry from the exiled Israelites.

Haplogroups R, Q, N, and O could very well be descendants of Japheth, since they are found where descendants of Japheth are traced to.

Haplogroup I1 in Europe: statistics

Nowhere does a male population entirely consist of Hpg I1. Here is a list of Y-DNA Haplogroups of regions generally believed to have much Israelite ancestry:^[iii]

Regions generally believed to be of Israelite origin have many males of Hpg I1, but also many of other Haplogroups. This indicates that the original Israelite stock in Europe is mixed with other nationalities, especially descendants of Japheth.

May 2010