Jewish Encyclopedia

Christina said:

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Thanks for posting the link to the Jewish Encyclopedia. I wanted to research the term "chosen people" and I found some interesting information. I have highlighted certain parts of this.

Name for the Jewish people expressive of the idea of their having been chosen by God to fulfill the mission of proclaiming His truth among all the nations. This choice does not imply a superior claim, but a superior duty and responsibility on the part of the Jewish people, inasmuch as they have been pledged by the covenant which God concluded with Abraham, their ancestor, and again with the entire nation on Sinai, to testify, by precept and example, to the truth revealed to them, to lead a holy life as God's priest-people, and, if needs be, sacrifice their very lives for the sake of this truth. In this peculiar sense they are called God's own people;...

According to the Rabbis, Israel has not been chosen as the people of the Law on account of its racial superiority....
"The character of Israel as the chosen people," writes Güdemann ("Das Judenthum," 1902, p. 44) "does not involve the inferiority of other nations. The universality of Israel's idea of God is sufficient proof against such an assumption. Every nation requires a certain self-consciousness for the carrying out of its mission. Israel's self-consciousness was tempered by the memory of its servitude in Egypt and the recognition of its being 'the servant of the Lord.' It was the noblesse oblige of the God-appointed worker for the entire human race."E.

This information answered some of the questions I've had about what chosen people means; what it means to the Rabbis and Jewish people.
Read more: http://www.jewishenc...n#ixzz0pWXTc7Ay

I did a search there,check out this link...
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14506-tribes-lost-ten - Tribes,Lost Ten

According to the Bible, Tiglath-pileser (II Kings xv. 29) or Shalmaneser (ib. xvii. 6, xviii. 11), after the defeat of Israel, transported the majority of the inhabitants of the Northern Kingdom to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and Habor, on the stream of Gozan, and in the towns of Media. In their stead a mixed multitude was transported to the plains and mountains of Israel. As a large number of prophecies relate to the return of "Israel" to the Holy Land, believers in the literal inspiration of the Scriptures have always labored under a difficulty in regard to the continued existence of the tribes of Israel, with the exception of those of Judah and Levi (or Benjamin), which returned with Ezra and Nehemiah. If the Ten Tribes have disappeared, the literal fulfilment of the prophecies would be impossible; if they have not disappeared, obviously they must exist under a different name. The numerous attempts at identification that have been made constitute some of the most remarkable curiosities of literature.

Read it in the bold and underline or follow the link...the proof is there...that would mean NOT JEWS,A PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT JEWS......