Lost Tribes InstituteEst. 2024

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Essays

Short pieces from the Institute's ongoing research, newest first. Follow by RSS.

  1. Oral Histories Intersecting to Build a Picture of Ancient Israelites throughout Asia

    Lost Book memories, cave-dwelling memories and Israelite customs, from the Kyrgyz through the Q'iang of China to the Karen, Mizo and Kuki. Margot Crossing's paper for the Institute's first scientific symposium.

    Margot Crossing, Founder, Lost Tribes Institute

  2. The Peoples of the Lost Book: Connecting Northeast India to Central Asian Migration through Oral History

    From Kyrgyzstan through China to the hill tribes of Myanmar and northeast India, people after people remember a sacred book they once had and lost. Margot Crossing traces the thread.

    Margot Crossing, Founder, Lost Tribes Institute

  3. Jesus on a Buddhist Encyclopedia Page

    A Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia page confirms the sacred Buddhist texts predicted Jesus

    Richard Hewitt (Risbek), Lost Tribes Institute

  4. The International Trajectory of God’s Good News

    The Good News announced to the nations started with Abraham in Genesis and carries through to Revelation.

    Lost Tribes Institute's Richard Hewitt (Risbek)

  5. The Name - A Banner for All Nations and Languages

    One name with a million variations in every language on Earth.

    Richard Hewitt (Risbek)

  6. A Semiology That Holds All Religions Together: A Case Study Among Ethnic Kyrgyz

    Presented in Bishkek in 2021: how symbols from the Torah and the wider Script spread to the nations, with Kyrgyz culture and the Kydyr as a case study.

    Richard Hewitt (Risbek)

  7. Alisher Navoi’s Kydyr-Messiah

    How the poet Alisher Navoi linked Central Asia's wandering Kydyr with the Messiah, and what Kyrgyz tradition and the Manas epic say about him.

    Richard Hewitt (Risbek)

  8. Analysis of the Mikir-Israeli Claim: Ethnic Mikir (Karbi) Descend From Ancient Israel

    The Institute's analysis of the United Mikir Research Society's claim that the Mikir (Karbi) people descend from ancient Israel.

    Richard Hewitt (Risbek)

  9. Did Ancient Israelites Form Eastern Religions? (Part 2)

    Part 2, from the Institute's 3rd International Scientific Symposium, continues the case that the Buddha was an Israelite.

    Richard Hewitt (Risbek)

  10. Did Ancient Israelites Form Eastern Religions? (Part I)

    Part I of a two-part study suggesting that the founders of Eastern religions descended from Israelites deported east in the 8th century BCE.

    Richard Hewitt (Risbek)

  11. Iconic Bible Chapters about Israel’s Lost Tribes

    A list of the Bible's most iconic chapters on the return of Israel's lost tribes, prepared for the 2024 Chiang Mai symposium.

    Richard Hewitt (Risbek)

  12. One Book For All Religions

    A true story from a Kyrgyz mountain village, where an elder heard the story of Abraham and found his people's God-guest tradition in it. Told at the 2024 Chiang Mai symposium.

    Richard Hewitt (Risbek)

  13. The Adoration of Isa Masīḥ in Sufi Islam

    How Sufi poets and mystics writing in Arabic, Persian and Turkic honored Isa al-Masih as a model of closeness to God.

    Richard Hewitt (Risbek)

  14. The Kydyr List: Reflections on Jesus (Isa) as Kydyr-Messiah or Wanderer-Messiah, with the Silk Road’s Beliefs of al-Khidr

    Verses from the Quran and the Bible, with reflections, on Isa (Jesus) as the Kydyr, the wandering messiah of Central Asian belief.

    Richard Hewitt (Risbek)

  15. The Lost Tribes of Israel in Kashmir and Surrounding Areas

    Historical records, customs, language and oral tradition that point to Israelite influence in Kashmir and neighboring regions.

    Richard Hewitt (Risbek)

  16. The Name That Reclaims All Names

    Across Asia, the highest titles people have held for their deepest hopes, from the Mahdi to Amida to Kydyr, keep finding their way to Jesus. The Bible describes exactly this movement, from Psalm 2 to Revelation 21.

    Richard Hewitt (Risbek)

  17. The Veracity of Scripture

    Examples from archaeology, history, genetics and psychology where academic dismissals of the Bible were later overturned by new evidence.

    Richard Hewitt (Risbek)

  18. Torah-to-Messiah Pattern

    From the 1st Scientific Symposium in Aizawl, 2023: how figures, symbols and prophecies in the Hebrew Bible form a pattern pointing to the Messiah.

    Richard Hewitt (Risbek)

  19. Podcast with Japanese Researcher Arimasa Kubo

    Interview with Japanese Scholar Arimasa Kubo on the evidence that ancient Israelites came to Japan.

    Lost Tribes Institute's Richard Hewitt (Risbek)

  20. The Lord of Mercies: Jesus on a Buddhist Encyclopedia Page

    A page on the Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia says the Buddha foretold a coming "Lord of Mercies," pierced and scarred. What the page claims, where it came from, and why its Chiang Mai manuscript deserves a closer look.

    Richard Hewitt (Risbek), Lost Tribes Institute