Howshua Amariel

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Howshua Amariel is a translator of the Biblical Hebrew (also known as Ancient Hebrew or the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet)cite news |first=Aaron |last=Cohen |title=Unique Translation of the Paleo-hebrew Tanach |url=http://www.articlesbase.com/religion-articles/unique-translation-of-the-paleohebrew-tanach-558436.html |date=2008-09-11 |accessdate=2008-09-14] cite news |first=Sheera Clair |last=Frenkel |title=A headdress of many colors. Would-be Black Hebrew traces 'Jewish heritage' via Cherokee roots |url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/793889351.html?dids=793889351:793889351&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Feb+16%2C+2005&author=SHEERA+CLAIRE+FRENKEL&pub=Jerusalem+Post&edition=&startpage=05&desc=A+headdress+of+many+colors.+Would-be+Black+Hebrew+traces+%27Jewish+heritage%27+via+Cherokee+roots |work=The Jerusalem Post |page=05 |date=2005-02-16 |accessdate=2008-09-08 |quote= [Amariel] translates ancient Hebrew into English] and the author of the interlinear style Paleo-Hebrew text, entitled “THIS REPORT: The Hebrew/Phoenician History called the Bible”. [cite web |url=http://tcprayer.bravehost.com/torah1.htm |title=The Tabernacle Congregation of Prayer |accessdate=2008-09-08 |publisher=Amariel Family Publishing] Aside from Amariel's claims, his work, which is referred to in the Library of Congress, [cite web |url=http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=1&ti=1,1&Search%5FArg=TXu000929585&Search%5FCode=REGS&CNT=25&SID=1 |title=This report : the Hebrew-Phoenecian history called The Bible |accessdate=2008-09-03 |work=Copyright Catalog |publisher=United States Copyright Office] is also currently respected by the Igbo Jewish communities of Israel as being the first translation of the Biblical Hebrew Tanakh into an extensive formal equivalence English translation of the Bible. [cite web |url=http://community.guinnessworldrecords.com/kickapps/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=2105275&as=7691 |title=About Me |accessdate=2008-09-03 |first=Howshua |last=Amariel] [cite web |url=http://www.planetnana.co.il/igbos/pages/books.html |title=Books |publisher=Igbo Interest World Wide]

Research

Howshua Amariel is involved in Biblical Archaeology and research of the House of Yahweh (Biblical term). In 1986 the Metropolitan Museum of Art special presentation "Treasures of the Holy Land", displayed a unique artifact concerning inscription of the biblical House of Yahweh for the first time in the United States. The show was hosted by the Director of the Metropolitan Museum Phillip Demarbilo, with the help of Martin Weyl, the director of the Israel Museum. After becoming aware of the house of Yahweh artifacts from the exhibit, Research Minister Howshua Amariel began studying biblical archaeology and artifacts pertaining to the House of Yahweh. [cite web |url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/50898/Treasures-of-the-Holy-Land-Ancient-Art-from-the-Israel-Museum/overview |title=New York Times-Movies |accessdate=2008-09-15 |work=New York Times] [cite web |url=http://tcprayer.bravehost.com/zion.htm |title=RESEARCH: The Search for Mount Zion and a call to raise the Tabernacle of David |accessdate=2008-09-15 |publisher=Tabernacle Congregation of Prayer]

Since 1987 the Tabernacle Congregation of Prayer Yeshiva, an institute of biblical studies has had researchers, historians, and archaeologist all over the world investigating Hebrew and Israelite sites. Research Minister Howshua Amariel, a member of this yeshiva, along with other members- Kaleb Obadyah Ben Yisrael, Carmello Diaz, Eri Abdiel and archaeologist Aaron Rice have traveled back and forth from the Eretz Israel. For 20 years they travelled from the river of Egypt to the river Euphrates in search of the holy places of the children of Israel. [cite web |url=http://www.worldjewishdirectory.com/forum/viewThread.jsp?forum=3&thread=51 |date=2006-08-02 |title=House of Elohim found in Israel |accessdate=2008-09-12 |work=World Jewish Directory |publisher=Yasna Inc] [cite web |url=http://tcprayer.bravehost.com/research1.htm |title=Research Team/ Prayer Team |accessdate=2008-09-15 |publisher=Tabernacle Congregation of Prayer] [cite web |url=http://tcprayer.bravehost.com/develop4.htm |title=The Search for Mount Zion and a call to raise the Tabernacle of David |accessdate=2008-09-15 |publisher=Tabernacle Congregation of Prayer]

The Memphis-based "Jerusalem Chronicle Newspaper" [cite web |url=http://memphisdailynews.com/PublicRecords.aspx?recordsDate=2%2F28%2F2007&grp=Business+Licenses&cty=Shelby |title=Public Records (Business Licenses) |date=2007-02-28 |accessdate=2008-09-16 |publisher=Memphis Daily News |quote=02/28/07; Jerusalem Chronicle Newspaper; Payne, Dwaine A; Germantown] in a July of 1996 (Sivan/Tammuz 3233) article entitled “Passover in Diaspora” spoke of one of their journeys through Egypt stating that “Howshua Amariel and delegation investigated those similarities between the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and the Hebrew alef-bet”. Amariel and colleagues spent Passover at the House of Yahweh in Elephantine, Egypt.

Public Activism

In 1995 working as a human rights activist and community organizer, Howshua Amariel, with people from many different beliefs gathered together for the Million Man March, the largest gathering of African American men in U.S. history as they marched in Washington, D.C. to renew their faith and commitment to the Creator. He promoted others to attend this event as a form of group atonement for iniquities committed by the community and ‘Bene Israel’ in general. He was published in both the Washington Post and the official Million Man March book by the award-winning journalist & author Michael H. Cottman and on page 46 was shown praying for solidarity of the children of Israel. [cite book |last=Cottman |first=Michael H. |title=Million man march |publisher=Crown Trade Paperbacks |location=New York, NY |year=1995 |pages= |isbn=0-517-88763-0 |oclc=33936512]

He appeared on the Oprah Winfrey October 16th 1996 show of 'Get on the Bus' where people involved with the movie 'Get on the Bus' discuss the movie's depiction of a journey to the Million Man March on its 1st anniversary.Fact|date=September 2008

Amariel is commonly known at the turn of the century for his works with the issue of reparations for slavery. [cite news |title=The Call for Reparations Grows at Grassroots Political Level |url= |work=Jerusalem Chronicles |date=July/August 2000 |page=1 |volume=11 |number=2] In early 2001 the Chicago City Council held a public meeting on the subject to consider if reparations for descendants of slaves were possible. Howshua Amariel, as a representative of the Yisraelite Organization of Unity, presented a proposal at the first National Reparations Convention in February 2001 to help solve the reparations for slavery debate. [cite web |url=http://youisrael.bravehost.com/ReparationsTheForgottenPromise.htm |title=Reparations: The Forgotten Promise |accessdate=2008-09-15 |publisher=Yisraelite Organization of Unity] [cite web |url=http://youisrael.bravehost.com/ReparationsandRepatriation.htm |title= Reparations and Repatriation |accessdate=2008-09-15 |publisher=Yisraelite Organization of Unity] The proposal received approval from the audience and was given to the Chicago officials to be sent to the US capital for review. Mr. Amariel was seen in several local articles (including the Chicago Sun-Times, and on the front page of the Chicago Crusader [cite news |title=CHA residents tell Mayor: 'No Privatization, No More Disrespect' |url= |work=The Chicago Crusader |date=2000-04-29 |page=1 |volume=LIX |number=52] ) on the issue and also several articles on the issue nationwide (including the LA Times [cite news |title=Reparation Idea Gains Support Among Blacks |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2001/feb/11/news/mn-24067 |work=Los Angeles Times |page=A-25 |date=2001-02-11 |accessdate=2008-09-03] ).

In addition, Paul Shepard from Associated Press wrote a Feb. 11th, 2001 article in the Seattle Times entitled “U.S. slavery reparations: Hope that a race will be compensated gains momentum” [cite news |title=U.S. slavery reparations: Hope that a race will be compensated gains momentum |url=http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=reparation11&date=20010211 |work=Seattle Times |date=2001-02-11 |accessdate=2008-09-14 |first=Paul |last=Shepard |coauthors=Associated Press] and described the moment in which he stated, "Brother Howshua is certain. The burly black man in the black suit, black leather hat, black boots and spirit to match knows he has the prescription for his people's psychic and financial ills on the piece of paper suffocating in his weathered hands. Now to get the rest of the world on board. First, he clears his throat. Howshua is about to drop the bomb. 'For those blacks who wish to remain in America, they should receive reparations in the form of free education, free medical, free legal and free financial aid for 50 years with no taxes levied,' booms the Chicago social activist. Howshua thumps the paper with forefinger for emphasis, then continues: 'For those desiring to leave America, every black person would receive a million dollars or more, backed by gold, in reparation.' A solemn Howshua slowly lays the paper down. Listeners offer approving nods around the table.”

Afterward Amariel became a licensed director [cite web |title=CANTV Director Howshua Amariel: Sickle Cell commercial |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej8i-nNHUL4 |work= |date=2001-09-6 |accessdate=2008-09-16 |quote= [click 'Quick Text' to see article] Comments from UN Racism conference on Mideast & reparations.]

Rabbinic works

Rabbi Howshua Amariel was ordained a rabbinic administratorcite web |url=http://youisrael.bravehost.com/rabbiscert2.jpg|title=Yisraelite Organizations Unity Certificate of Ordination for Rabinnical Administrator |accessdate=2008-09-03 |quote=This Certifies that Rabbi Howshua Amariel Is a member of Y.O.U. and is commissioned by the International Director with the authority to do all the work of an administrator as set sic|for in the Constitution and sic|by laws.] by Rabbi James Hodges, a member on the International Israelite Board of Rabbis [cite web |first=Sholomo B |last=Levy |url=http://www.blackjews.org/InternationalBoardOfRabbis.html |title=Black Rabbis Past and Present |accessdate=2008-09-22 |work=BlackJews.org |publisher=International Israelite Board of Rabbis] and International Director of the Yisraelite Organization of UnityFact|date=September 2008.

The Jerusalem Chronicle Newspaper printed a story on Howshua Amariel in their July 2000 edition, an article entitled ‘Two sides of One People” for the formation of a judicial committee (beth din). [cite news |title=Two sides of One People |url= |work=Jerusalem Chronicle Newspaper |date=July/August 2000 |page=1 |volume=11 |number=2] On Nov 22nd 2000 Rabbi Amariel was appointed to represent the Tabernacle Congregation of Prayer Yeshiva and sit on a judicial committee of the Yisraelite Organization of Unity along with Rabbi Sholomo Levy (President, International Israelite Board of Rabbis. Assistant Professor of History, Northampton Community College), [cite web |url=http://www.northampton.edu/facultydirectory/show.htm?id=%c3%9f%c3%b2I%c5%b8%c2%a1%c3%a4 |title=Sholomo Levy |accessdate=2008-09-15 |publisher=Northampton Community College] [cite web |url=http://www.northampton.edu/news/newsreleases/Sholomo+Levy+Publishes+Biorgaphies.htm |title=NCC Professor and Scholar Publishes on African American Biography |accessdate=2008-09-15 |publisher=Northampton NOW] Rabbi Capers C. Funnye Jr. (member of the Chicago Board of Rabbis), Princess Zeridah Yehudah, [cite news |first=Joyce |last=Shelby |url=https://nydailynews.com/archives/ny_local/2000/08/17/2000-08-17_israelites__dream_lives_conc.html |title=Israelites' Dream Lives Concert is a chance to be heard |accessdate=2008-09-11 |work=Daily News] Yirmeyahu Shlomo, and Moreh Elisha that were given the title of ‘Sar’ or Captain. [cite web |url=http://youisrael.bravehost.com/youisr5.htm |title=Judicial Committee As of May 2001 |accessdate=2008-09-03 |publisher=Yisraelite Organization of Unity]

Also while in South Africa Captain Amariel met with the spiritual leader of the Lemba Jews and president of the Lemba Cultural Association, the late Prof. Matshaya Mathivha [cite web |url=http://www.kulanu.org/newsletters/1999-summer.pdf |title=Kulanu Newsletter |accessdate=2008-09-18 |publisher= Kulanu] , and other chiefs of the tribes about the issues of how their communities were suffering and not allowed to make Aliyah to Israel freely as Jews. Professor Mativha made a public announcement that they were brothers and said he would personally address this issue with the Israelis in his negotiations with them. On Sept. 4th 2001, both of their communities made a covenant with each other; Elder Mativha representing the Lemba Cultural Association and Amariel on the behalf of members of the Y.O.U. [cite web |url=http://youisrael.bravehost.com/yourep.htm |title=Our Repatriation covenant with our Lemba Brothers |accessdate=2008-09-03 |publisher=Yisraelite Organization of Unity]

In 2002, Howshua Amariel Director of the Israel Chapter for the Yisraelite Organization of Unity (Y.O.U.), and rabbinic administrator & organizer in Israel was made a spokesman and representative for the Y.O.U. in Israel. Rabbi Amariel met with Rabbi Eliyahu Avichail, the head of Amishav, an organization in search of the lost tribes of Israel and the descendants of the Anusim. Rabbi Amariel showed to Rabbi Avichail information, artifacts and history on how history refers to some so called ‘Indian’ tribes as being a lost tribe of Israel.

He also met with Rabbi Yossef Hadane the head rabbi of the Ethiopian community in Israel that Rabbi Howshua Amariel successfully opened a line of communication with, for the purpose of repatriation of Bene Israel seeking to return to the land of Israel. [cite web |first=Yeshiyah |last=Amariel |url=http://amarielfamily.tripod.com/7.html |title=Family Oral History |accessdate=2008-09-03 |publisher=Amariel Family Publishing |quote= [Amariel] is the only in Israel that has successfully open of a line of communication with the Ethiopian Rabbinical community.] And he also showed Hadane an Ethiopian Torah that is a family treasure of Rabbi Amariel's family which is believed to be 1500 years old and might prove their connection to the Ethiopian Jews. [cite web |url=http://youisrael.bravehost.com/yourep3.htm |title=The Yisraelite Organization of Unity |accessdate=2008-09-03 |publisher=Yisraelite Organization of Unity |quote=And he also shown the rabbi a 1500 year old sic|Ethi|pian Torah (that is a family treasure of the Rabbi Howshua's) that proved their connection.] [cite web |url=http://amarielfamily.tripod.com/id11.html |title=Family Treasures |accessdate=2008-09-03 |publisher=Amariel Family Publishing]

On Sept 9th 2006, during an event recognizing of the Ebos as a Jews, Rabbi Amariel presented Hi Ben Daniel, the spiritual leader of the Igbo Jews in Israel, with a plague of brotherhood as a symbol of the covenant between them to corroborate to together that was made originally with Martin Delany in 1838. [cite press release |title=Chief Rabbi and the State of Israel Confirm Ebos as Ephraim |publisher=Yisrael Today |date=2006-09-06 |url=http://www.articlesbase.com/news-and-society-articles/chief-rabbi-and-the-state-of-israel-confirm-ebos-as-ephraim-215399.html |accessdate=2008-09-03] And after receiving a rabbinical authorization of administration from the Y.O.U for the purpose of building a rabbinical coalition within the land of Israel, Rabbi Amariel began meeting with rabbis of different ethnicities in Israel to form an interracial board of rabbis (beth din) with local rabbis from different tribes now living in Israel.

Family History

Howshua Amariel was born in a family of Native American Cherokee (Hispanic) they also share the distinctive belief on his Native American linage that they are descendants from the lost tribe of Ephraim that came originally from the Middle East around 2500 years ago to the Americas. [cite news |first=Sheera Clair |last=Frenkel |title=A headdress of many colors. Would-be Black Hebrew traces 'Jewish heritage' via Cherokee roots |url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/793889351.html?dids=793889351:793889351&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Feb+16%2C+2005&author=SHEERA+CLAIRE+FRENKEL&pub=Jerusalem+Post&edition=&startpage=05&desc=A+headdress+of+many+colors.+Would-be+Black+Hebrew+traces+%27Jewish+heritage%27+via+Cherokee+roots |work=The Jerusalem Post |page=05 |date=2005-02-16 |accessdate=2008-09-08 |quote=Amariel believes that the Cherokee Indians are also practitioners of Judaism… [Amariel] believes that a group of Black Hebrews from Africa made their way to North America, melding into the Cherokee Indian tribe.] [cite web |first=Yeshiyah |last=Amariel |url=http://amarielfamily.tripod.com/1.htm |title=Amariel Family Oral History |publisher=Amariel Family Publishing |accessdate=2008-09-03 ] The family celebrates all the Israelite holidays, keeps Shabbat, follows the laws of Kashrut, (dietary laws) and maintained the knowledge of the old Hebrew language. Thus Mr. Amariel has dedicated his life to the study of ancient Hebrew Torah.

“Identifying with the Black Hebrews, Amariel has a notebook full of leaflets, oceanography charts, genealogy maps, and linguistic analysis all pointing towards his conclusion; that one of the Judean tribes wandered through the Arabian Peninsula to Africa and established its own branch of Judaism there.”cite news |first=Sheera Clair |last=Frenkel |title=A headdress of many colors. Would-be Black Hebrew traces 'Jewish heritage' via Cherokee roots |url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/793889351.html?dids=793889351:793889351&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Feb+16%2C+2005&author=SHEERA+CLAIRE+FRENKEL&pub=Jerusalem+Post&edition=&startpage=05&desc=A+headdress+of+many+colors.+Would-be+Black+Hebrew+traces+%27Jewish+heritage%27+via+Cherokee+roots |work=The Jerusalem Post |page=05 |date=2005-02-16 |accessdate=2008-09-08]

Rabbi Howshua Amariel's quest went beyond proving to the State of Israel the genetic link between the Black Indians and their Jewish brethren. He also stated that many Africans are in fact Black Hebrews. As such, he is petitioning the Israeli government to grant them both the full right of return allowed to Ethiopian Jews. "There are millions of us, who want to return here to Israel. People say we are the lost tribe, but we are not lost, we know exactly who we are." According to Amariel, he has also demonstrated his knowledge of ancient Hebrew by being the first to translate the ancient Hebrew Torah to English at Tel Arad (the House of Yahweh). [cite web |url=http://amarielfamily.tripod.com/7.htm |title=Amariel Family Oral History |publisher=Amariel Family Publishing |accessdate=2008-09-03 |first=Yeshiyah |last=Amariel |quote=returning a pure language unto our people (Zep: 3:9) for the purpose to demonstrate that we are the ancient ones (children of Israel).] After Amariel’s statements there followed several articles and additional DNA evidence from various members the Cherokee Nation which linked to the Jewish people. [cite web |url=http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=1700 |title=Missouri Cherokee Tribes proclaim Jewish Heritage |accessdate=2008-09-03 |work= |first=Ted |last=Belman |date=2008-08-02] [cite press release |title=Local Cherokee Prove Jew Connection |publisher=Cherokee of Lawrence County, TN |date= |url=http://www.cherokeeoflawrencecountytn.org/PressRelease.pdf |accessdate=2008-09-03] However, the belief that some Native Americans were a Lost tribe of Israel goes back for centuries and includes individuals like the 1782 President of the Continental Congress Elias Boudinot [cite book |last=Boudinot |first=Elias |authorlink=Elias Boudinot |title=Star in the West or A Humble Attempt to Discover the Long Lost Ten Tribes of Israel Preparatory to Their Return to Their Beloved City, Jerusalem |publisher=Kessinger Publishing |origyear=1816 |year=2003 |isbn=0-7661-6562-0] [cite web |url=http://amarielfamily.tripod.com/7.htm |title=Amariel Family Oral History |publisher=Amariel Family Publishing |accessdate=2008-09-03 |first=Yeshiyah |last=Amariel |quote=Boudinot seems to have felt that the popular identification of the Indians as the lost Israelites would bring with it a widespread realization that the Bible and its prophecies were true] and Mordecai Noah, the most influential Jew in the United States in the early 19th Century. [cite book |first=Mordecai Manuel |last=Noah |authorlink=Mordecai Manuel Noah |year=1837 |title=Discourse on the evidences of the American Indians being the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel |isbn=0665454538 |publisher=J. Van Norden |location=New York |oclc=15535064 |url=http://olivercowdery.com/texts/noah1837.htm |accessdate=2008-09-03] [cite book |last=Brody |first=Seymour |year=2005 |title=Jewish heroes and heroines of America |isbn=0883910268 |publisher=Frederick Fell Publishers |location=Hollywood, Fla. |oclc=51637837 |chapter=Mordecai Manuel Noah |chapterurl=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/MNoah.html |quote=Mordecai Manuel Noah was the most influential Jew in the United States in the early 19th Century.]

ee also

* List of firsts
* List of Bible translators
* Bible translations
* Literal translation
* Formal equivalence
* Bible version debate
* Ten Lost Tribes

External links

* [http://amarielfamily.tripod.com Amariel Family Publishing]
* [http://tcprayer.bravehost.com Tabernacle Congregation of Prayer Yeshiva] official website
* [http://youisrael.bravehost.com Yisraelite Organization of Unity] official website

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* Oprah Winfrey show episode entitled 'Get on the Bus' October 16thVerify source|date=September 2008
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* CanTV Studios in Chicago Review- Howshua Amariel host of “Reparations Now”Verify source|date=September 2008
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