Forty - Seven Identifications of the British Nation with the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. Founded Upon Five Hundred Scripture Proofs
London: S. W. Partridge & Co., 1874. Hardcover. 8vo. x, 296 pp. Brown cloth. An early work by one of the founders of the Christian Identity Movement. Christian Identity is a name given to a complex, highly varied movement that has never had much cohesion. Its most fundamental teaching pivots on the idea that Anglo-Saxons are the direct descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel and, thus, are the "true chosen people" of God. The roots of Christian Identity are found in the British-Israelism Movement of the mid-19th Century. Though this movement did not start as a hate group, as it took shape in the U.S. during the early decades of the 20th Century, it was influenced by American Nativism, the Ku Klux Klan, and various strands of anti-Semitism. Scuffing to boards, some tearing to crown and bottom of spine, a dent to back board, hinges starting. Has the signature of former owner, Merrit E. Sawyer, former Corresponding Secretary of the Rockland Historical and Forestry Society. Some minor water damage to endpapers, with rippling to pages but text completely unaffected. Book in fair condition. Item #18301
Contains Part 1 and 2, "Flashes of Light" and Part 4, "England's Coming Glories", containing also "The Glory of the Great Pyramid" and "The Anglo-Saxon Riddle: or, The Riddle of our Israelitish Origin, Presnt Grandeur, And Future Greatness. by Antiquary, a Clergyman of the Church of England. Als, Its Solution."
Price: $250.00