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Summary: Total Piece of JUNK!!!
Review: It is astonishing that anyone with a Ph.D. would allow their name to be attached to such a terribly written jumble of nonsense. This booklet reads more like a freshman research paper thrown together an hour before class by a student who never bothered to look at the assigned readings, and thinking - I'll use large font and hopefully nobody will notice I have nothing much to say with the required number of pages. This booklet is purely a slapdash collection of ramblings and outdated folklore. The premise is that the ten tribes are living in a concave of the earth somewhere beneath the surface. Documentation is presented throughout the book in the following manner: according to one source, on one occasion, it is believed, etc. That type of citation is usually a big red flag that an author has no valid sources to quote from and needs to do a lot of padding for flimsy ideas, of which this book abounds. The entire presentation of the topic is pathetically weak. Again, I am astounded the author claims to have a Ph.D. and is such a deficient writer. Even if the ideas seemed valid and interesting, the writing is of such pitiful quality that it is impossible to get beyond that point. Go back to school "Dr." McConkie - you need to learn to present your ideas in a concise and logical manner. You also need to learn a few things about writing. Try taking a Freshman English class!
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Summary: The second most useless book in the world
Review: McConckie has written three books. One is on marriageand Gods message baout intimacy. The second is about the 'gathering' where the Jews will be saved from Armegeddon and is the WORST book in the world. This is the second most useless. Why? Because this book puports itself to be a 'historical' insight into the disappearence of the ten lost tribes of Israel. Yet it is a total fabrication by someone who has no knowledge of Hebrew and no knowledge of the debate souroundignt he subject. Many scholars have actually looked at the evidence sourounding the ten lost tribes? They used empircal reasoning to determine what might have happaned to these people. How many were their at the time of capture? Where might the Assyrians have removed them too? What might they have done? Evidence exists for the possibility of these tribes ending up in India, Yemen, the Cuacuses, Central Asia, and even Africa. The truth is that rabbinical scholars have also looked into the biblical references to their disappearence and the description of them being in the 'north' which may mean they are simply obscure(disappeared). This author fabricates history by saying the Hebrew Bible contends that these tribes are in fact under the surface of the earth. Hmmmm, I seem to remember that being from a disney film or something. Your telling me that a PHD in history can reasonably assume the ten tribes are living AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH!!!! and will one day reappear. Wait a sec, this book is fiction...oops oh no its in the wrong section. I'm not sure why this book is in the non-fiction section but its not a history book or even a philisopphical book or even a theological book. Its written by a messianic mormon who uses his own wacky ideas to contrive history and lie to us about a bible we can pick up an read for ourselves. So if you are interested in watching someone 'prove' that the ten tribes have built massive underground caves in the ceter of the earth and that they exist down their waiting to return then go read this, if your interested in reality their are other books on the ten tribes and what might have happaned to them.
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Summary: The second most useless book in the world
Review: McConckie has written three books. One is on marriageand Gods message baout intimacy. The second is about the 'gathering' where the Jews will be saved from Armegeddon and is the WORST book in the world. This is the second most useless. Why? Because this book puports itself to be a 'historical' insight into the disappearence of the ten lost tribes of Israel. Yet it is a total fabrication by someone who has no knowledge of Hebrew and no knowledge of the debate souroundignt he subject. Many scholars have actually looked at the evidence sourounding the ten lost tribes? They used empircal reasoning to determine what might have happaned to these people. How many were their at the time of capture? Where might the Assyrians have removed them too? What might they have done? Evidence exists for the possibility of these tribes ending up in India, Yemen, the Cuacuses, Central Asia, and even Africa. The truth is that rabbinical scholars have also looked into the biblical references to their disappearence and the description of them being in the 'north' which may mean they are simply obscure(disappeared). This author fabricates history by saying the Hebrew Bible contends that these tribes are in fact under the surface of the earth. Hmmmm, I seem to remember that being from a disney film or something. Your telling me that a PHD in history can reasonably assume the ten tribes are living AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH!!!! and will one day reappear. Wait a sec, this book is fiction...oops oh no its in the wrong section. I'm not sure why this book is in the non-fiction section but its not a history book or even a philisopphical book or even a theological book. Its written by a messianic mormon who uses his own wacky ideas to contrive history and lie to us about a bible we can pick up an read for ourselves. So if you are interested in watching someone 'prove' that the ten tribes have built massive underground caves in the ceter of the earth and that they exist down their waiting to return then go read this, if your interested in reality their are other books on the ten tribes and what might have happaned to them.
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Summary: Another collection of lost tribe drivel...
Review: Once again, Clay McConkie strikes out big time in his book "The Ten Lost Tribes." I was almost happy to see a new book from him, thinking that perhaps he had purged himself of the spurious assertions made in his previous work "Gathering of the Waters." Once again, Mr. McConkie fails to see the _symbolic_ representation that the lost tribes are in the land of the "north" (semitic symbolism shows that "north" means "obscure" or "gloomy"). His assertions are most likely based on one, maybe two eisegetical interpretations of scripture (possible misconceptions of Nehemiah 1:9 and D&C 133:22-31). However there is a plethora of scriptural passages which show that the lost tribes are scattered throughout the entire earth: Deut. 30:3; Jer. 3:17; 16:15; 23:3; 29:14; 32:37; Ezek. 11:17; 20:41; 28:25; 36:24; 37:21 (21-28); 39:27; Isa. 5:26 (2 Ne. 15:26); 6:12-13 (2 Ne. 16:12-13); 11:11; Amos 9 (entire chapter); 1 Ne. 19:16; 22:3-4, 25; 3 Ne. 5:24; 16:5; 20:13; Moses 7:62; JS-M 1:27, etc. etc. These passages indicate that their "gathering" or return will most likely happen right under our noses, and is probably happening as we speak. They're here Clay, it's just that you and I don't "see" it as well as we should. Mr. McConkie's gospel hobby has gone too far. Could it be from a lack of hermeneutical training? Poor exegetical methodology? Misunderstanding of semitic symbolism and lexicology? Buy this book and decide for yourself... or just take a class or two in semitics and learn the truth.
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