In 1835 Asahel Grant was appointed by the American Board of Foreign Missions to pursue his calling among the Nestorians of Mesopotamia. He found among them a tradition that they were descendants of the Lost Ten Tribes, a tradition which had already been gathered by Smith and White during their earlier mission ("Researches in Armenia," vol. ii.). He found also among the Jews of the neighborhood of Urumiah recognition of this tradition, which he considered to be confirmed by the following facts: they dwelt in the neighborhood to which the Israelites were originally deported, while Josephus declared that the Ten Tribes lived beyond the Euphrates up to his time ("Ant." xi. 5, § 3), and his statement is confirmed by Jerome ("Opera," vi. 780); their language is a branch of the Aramaic; they still offer sacrifices and first-fruits like the ancient Israelites, and they prepare for the Sabbath on the preceding evening; they have Jewish names and Jewish features. Other similarities of custom are recorded by Grant ("The Nestorians, or the Lost Tribes," New York, 1845).

Whether as a result of missionary efforts from the Nestorians among them or not, the proto-Turkic [[Huns ]] of Central Eurasia are claimed by ~~te Karaite Turks and Karaims~~ [[Turanian Karaites]] to have been the descendants fo of the Ten Tribes. The most popular names for the Huns such as Hun-Ugori, Onogur, On-Oq (all terms designating the Western Turkic Gahanate) all mean literally "Ten Tribes", and the abreviation Hun or On means simply "The Ten".

~~Unlike~~ The ~~Karaite Jews of the Near East, their enemies, the~~ [[Turanian Karaites]] of Eastern Europe, Russia Central Eurasia and beyond have always claimed that they were descended from the Lost Ten Tribes (specifically the so-called "Khazar" tribe of Simeon and its Levites as well as from ''Carite '' Caphtorim and Colchians) and had been settled in Turan (and allegedly other parts of Scythia ~~and Turan~~ ) certainly since the time of Cambyses, perhaps from as early as the time of Shalmaneser (seventh century B.C.). In 1795 ~~they~~ the [[Turanian Karaites]] were exempted from the double taxation imposed upon the Rabbinites, and in 1828, when it obtained for them the right to officer ranks and exemption from compulsory military service (although [[Karaite]] Hussars continued voluntary service as royal body guards to the Tsars). Abraham Firkovich satisfied the Russian authorities, but Karaite Jewish authors have often accused him of editing a number of inscriptions on tombstones and manuscripts to prove the early date of their settlement in the Crimea. However, Karaite Judaism has always been hostile towards Turanian Karaites and teaches that they are Mamzerim because they intermixed with Rabbinical Jews. Despite the Karaite Jewish accusations, ~~his~~ Firkovich's evidence was considered legally valid and effective with the Russian government.

According to their native traditions, the Afghans also are to be identified with the same Nestorian ~~Hunnic~~ [[Hun]]nic "Ten Tribes". They declare that Nebuchadnezzar banished them into the mountains of Ghur, whence they maintained correspondence with the Arabian Jews. When some of the latter were converted by Mohammed, one Khalid wrote to the Afghans and invited them to embrace Islam. Several Afghan nobles went to Arabia under one Ḳais, who claimed to trace his descent through forty-seven generations from Saul. He was accordingly greeted by Mohammed by the title of "malik," in deference to this illustrious descent. Ḳais is reported to have died at the age of eighty-seven, in 662; and all the modern chiefs of Afghanistan claim to be descended from him (Malcolm, "History of Persia," ii. 596, London, 1815). The Afghans still call themselves "Beni-Israel," and are declared to have a markedly Jewish appearance. Their claim to Israelitish descent is allowed by most Mohammedan writers. G. Moore, in his "Lost Tribes" (pp. 143-160, London, 1861), also identified the Afghans with the Ten Tribes.

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