Here is an attempt of making the connection between the Jews in Israel and the travels to America's as Cherokees.
“I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curses you: and in you all nations will be born through mixing. (Genesis 12:2, 3)”
75 years after Herod’s death, at the beginning of the Revolt of the Jews against the Romans in 66 CE, a group of Zealots known as the Si'cari'i – almost one thousand men, women and children – led by Eleazar ben Ya’ir overcame the Roman garrison of Masada. After the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple (70 CE) they were joined by zealots and their families who had fled from Jerusalem. With Masada as their base, they raided and harassed the Romans for two years. Then, in 73 CE, the Roman governor Flavius Silva marched against Masada with the Tenth Legion, auxiliary units and thousands of Jewish prisoners-of-war. The Romans established camps at the base of Masada, laid siege to it and built a circumvallation wall. They then constructed a rampart of thousands of tons of stones and beaten earth against the western approaches of the fortress and, in the spring of the year 74 CE, moved a battering ram up the ramp and breached the wall of the fortress.
As it became obvious that they were doomed they decided to burn the fortress and end their own lives, rather than be taken alive. “And so met (the Romans) with the multitude of the slain, but could take no pleasure in the fact, though it were done to their enemies. Nor could they do other than wonder at the courage of their resolution, and at the immovable contempt of death which so great a number of them had shown, when they went through with such an action as that was.” (Josephus Flavius’ “The Jewish War”
The Zealots cast lots to choose 10 men to kill the remainder. They then chose among themselves the one man who would kill the survivors. That last Jew then killed himself.
Only two women, hiding in grain bins, survived to tell the story to Josephus. So the story goes. It appears there were other survivors. There is a group known as the Tsa'ra-gi', note the phonetic resemblance of Si'cari'i, that tell a fantastic story. These people have an ancient oral tradition that tells of a migration made to, what is now America, from the area known as Masada. The evidence offered in support of this connection to ancient Americans escaping the mountain fortress of Masada is based in part on stories passed down from their elders, similarity between ancient words, and some strange archeological finds.
Beverly Baker Northup (Chief Elder of the Northern Tsa'ra-gi') says: "The story has been kept alive among our Tsa'ra-gi' people that the Sicari'i who escaped from Masada, are some of our ancestors who managed to cross the water to this land...” Northup claims that the famous scholar Josephus wrote that there were escapees from Masada in which the spokesperson for the Tsa'ra-gi' states that this is evidence that gives credence to the idea there may have been more survivors and this connection between the Tsa'ra-gi' in America and the Jews.
Archeological Evidencen Tennessee in 1889 a rock was uncovered that is known as the “Bat Creek Stone,” with an inscription in Paleo-Hebrew, which proves a transatlantic connection between the Jews and the Americas. The stone was initially found in a burial mound by a survey team led by John W. Emmert of the Smithsonian Institution. The mound was located at the confluence of the Little Tennessee River and Bat Creek, a few miles north of modern Vonore. Originally, it was thought the inscription was of a Cherokee alphabet invented by Sequoyah in the early 1800s however linguist Dr. Cyrus Gordon, professor of Mediterranean Studies at Brandeis University in Boston, identified it as actually a Paleo-Hebrew inscription. “The archaeological circumstances of the discover,’ Gordon said, ‘rule out any chance of fraud or forgery and the inscription attests to a migration of Jews…probably to escape the long hand of Rome after the disastrous Jewish defeats in 70 and 135 CE.’” Northup believes that the scratched writings on the rock indicate that the stone is evidence of a first century Atlantic Crossing to America by these escaped Jews that later became known as the Tsa'ra-gi'. Dr. Robert Steiglitz of New York reads it as “A comet for the Judeans,” or more correctly, “For the Judeans (at the time of) the comet,” with reference to HALLEY'S COMET,WHICH HUNG OVER JERUSALEM “LIKE A FLAMING SWORD” IN THE YEAR 69 CE DURING THE FIRST JEWISH REVOLT." This stone appears to be staking a claim of land for Judea. Next, two bracelets were found with the Bat Creek stone, originally classified as copper and later found to be leaded yellow brass which suggests the use of copper by the Hebrews that found their way to the Americas. THE EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE BECAME HAVENS OF REFUGE FOR PERSECUTED HEBREWS OF ISRAEL!
In November of 1860, David Wyrick of Newark, Ohio found an inscribed stone in a burial mound about 10 miles south of Ohio. The inscription is carved into a fine-grained black limestone. The inscribed stone was found inside a sandstone box. The stone is inscribed with "Square Hebrew" letters writing out Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21 - the Decalogue or Ten Commandments. There is a figure of a robed and bearded man, identified as Moses through the translation of the letters that crown his head. The text begins at the top of the arch over the head of the figure. The text is run on, with no spaces or word dividers. No terminal letter forms, consonant points, or vowel points are used. A stone bowl was also found with the Decalogue. Is this a Kiddush cup? Stone vessels are typical of Jews who kept the purity laws. Stone vessels do not become impure. Stone is natural. You don't have to put it in an oven or you don't do anything to transform the material out of which it is made, in contrast to, say, a clay pot, whose composition is changed by firing. Purity was very important to Jews in the late Second Temple period. The bowl and box were made of the same sandstone.
David A. Deal (Ancient American Magazine) and Dr. James Trimm (Society for the Advancement of Nazarene Judaism) examined the stone in 1996 and identified it as a Jewish phylactery or t'filla of the Second Temple period.
“These commandments that I give you today… Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.” (Deuteronomy 6:6,
Several months earlier, in June of 1860, Wyrick had found an additional stone, known as the “Keystone” because of its general shape, also inscribed in Hebrew letters. It was apparently intended to be held with the knob in the right hand, and turned to read the four sides in succession, perhaps repetitively. It says, “Holy is Yahweh.”
A fifth stone was found at the same site as the Decalogue stone two years later by David M. Johnson, a banker, and Dr. Nathaniel Roe Bradner, a physician. This fifth stone, named the Johnson-Bradner Stone, was also inscribed with post-Exilic Hebrew. Sadly, the Johnson-Bradner Stone has since been lost.
In 1891, at Chatata (an original Cherokee name), near Cleveland, in Bradley County, Tennessee, Isaac Hooper noticed a line of sandstone rocks projecting from the ground every 25-30 feet over a gently curving arc about 1,000 feet long. Unusual symbols seemed to be inscribed on one of these surface stones.
Dr. A.L. Rawson of the New York Academy of Sciences, employing a capable staff of cipher experts and expending $35,000, deciphered the inscriptions. The inscriptions were declared to be old Hebrew and of religious and historical nature. Hebrew Pottery and stone images were also found near the wall.
Dr Rawson believed that the Israelites, after locating in the Americas settled there and inscribed the tablets with the Torah in obedience to the injunction of Moses.
“In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws Yahweh our Elohim has commanded you?’ tell him: ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Before our eyes Yahweh sent miraculous signs and wonders—great and terrible—upon Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household. But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land that he promised on oath to our forefathers. Yahweh commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear Yahweh our Elohim, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today. And if we are careful to obey all this law before Yahweh our Elohim, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness." (Deuteronomy 6:20-25)
In Los Lunas New Mexico the Ten Commandments are cut into a 90-ton basalt boulder on the side of Hidden Mountain. It is inscribed in Paleo-Hebrew. The inscription was first seen by an archaeologist in 1933 and there are reports of it extending back into the 1880's. The writing is on a forty-degree angle, indicating the boulder has shifted since the carving was made. One geologist estimates the age of the work (based on the weathering) could be between 2,500-3,000 years old. Dr. Cyrus Gordon suggests that the Decalogue is a mezuzah. A mezuzah is usually placed by the entrance of a house, or carved on a large stone slab placed by the gateway to a property or synagogue in obedience to Deuteronomy 6:6, 8. “These commandments that I give you today… Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.” This was done by Israelite explorers to claim land for Israel.
“…King Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Elat, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.” (1 Kings 9:26, 27)
The Los Lunas site is located along the Puerco River which is tributary of the Rio Grande River. The Rio Grande is definitely in the Atlantic drainage. It would have been entirely possible for the Israelite explorers to access the area of the stone via the Gulf of Mexico.
