John Wilson (8 June 1799 – 22 January 1870) was an ideological architect of the British Israelism movement,[2]: 6-9 along with Edward Wheler Bird and Edward Hine.[3]
John Wilson | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 8, 1799 Kilmarnock, Scotland |
| Died | January 22, 1870 (aged 70) |
| Movement | British Israelism |
Wilson was a self educated man.[4]: 33 In 1840, he published Our Israelitish Origin, a book of his lectures, in which he claimed that the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel had made their way from the Near East, across the continent of Europe, to the British Isles.[2]: 7 He believed the Northern European people to be descended from the Ten Lost Tribes, with the people of Britain being the Tribe of Ephraim.[5]: 211 Wilson relied on philological "evidence" of English, Scottish, and Irish words that were similar to Hebrew words, even though he lacked formal training in language or seminary.[4]: 33
It was in Wilson's house in St Pancras, London, that the Anglo-Israel Association was founded in 1874.[6]
On the death of Wilson's daughter in 1904, his manuscripts passed into the possession of Rev. A. B. Grimaldi.[7]
References
edit- ^ Boase, Frederic (1921). Modern English Biography. Vol. 6. p. 917. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
- ^ a b Barkun, Michael (1997). Religion and the Racist Right: the Origins of the Christian Identity Movement. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2328-7. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- ^ Katz, David S. (2001). "Chapter 5: Israel in America: The Wanderings of the Lost Ten Tribes from Mikveigh Yisrael to Timothy McVeigh". In Fiering, Norman; Bernardini, Paolo (eds.). The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450 to 1800. New York, NY: Berghahn Books. pp. 113–114. ISBN 1-57181-153-2. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ^ a b Quarles, Chester L. (2014). Christian Identity: The Aryan American Bloodline Religion. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-8148-4. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
- ^ Kidd, Colin (2006). The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-79729-0. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- ^ King, Marie (1948). "John Wilson and Edward Hine". Destiny. Vol. 19. Destiny Publishers. p. 25. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
- ^ A. B. G., 'John Wilson MSS', Notes and Queries s11-I: 24 (1910), p. 464
External links
edit- Wilson, John, Lectures on Our Israelitish Origin, 5th edition 1876 (1st edition 1840). Internet Archive.
- Wilson, John, Our Israelitish Origins 1840, 144 pages. Google Books.