Lost Tribes Institute
1st International Symposium of World Epic
At the first International Festival of Epics, Richard Hewitt (Risbek) presented a comparison of Jakyb, father of the Kyrgyz hero Manas, with the biblical Jacob.
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Symposiums and round tables
Since 2006 the Institute’s researchers and their partners have brought together scholars, community leaders and the peoples themselves to present their traditions and the evidence for an Israelite origin. Most are published as books.
World Epic Festival scientific symposium
Papers on the Epic of Manas and its links to the biblical patriarchs, including Margot Crossing's “Lost Book Peoples,” which traces a chain of peoples from Kyrgyzstan to northeast India who remember a lost sacred book.
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1st Scientific Symposium on the Interconnectedness of the Israelites in Asia
The Institute's first symposium brought together oral histories of the Kyrgyz, Mizo, Chin, Kuki, Q'iang Min and Karen peoples.
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Lost Tribes Institute's 2nd International Symposium
Talks on the Karen and other Lost Book peoples, the evidence for ancient Israelites in Japan, and the Bible chapters that promise Israel's return.
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- Richard Hewitt (Risbek), “Iconic Bible Chapters about Israel's Lost Tribes”
- Richard Hewitt (Risbek), “One Book For All Religions”
- Richard Hewitt (Risbek), “Did Ancient Israelites Form Eastern Religions? (Part I)”
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Scientific Symposium of the United Mikir's Research Society & Lost Tribes Institute
A joint symposium with the United Mikir's Research Society on the Israelite origin of the Mikir/Karbi people of Assam and Meghalaya. Papers covered the Mikir monoliths, their ceremonies and feasts compared with Israel's, and the Humble King Sot Recho. The reciter Longsing Bey performed the Moserah, the Mikir oral history. The Institute's written analysis concludes that the Mikir/Karbi are Israelite in origin.
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Israel's Ten Lost Tribes in Japan and throughout Asia
An international symposium in Tokyo on the Japanese and Israel's lost tribes, opened by researcher Arimasa Kubo.
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2nd Mikir Symposium
The Institute's seventh symposium and its second with the Mikir (Karbi) people, held in Assam, their homeland. It follows the first Mikir symposium at Plasa, Meghalaya, in December 2024. Papers and recordings will be added here.