Re: [Cz-L] Our origin.

If King Solomon was David's son, and it is true that Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines, the potential number of King David's descendants approaches infinity.

[Mark Wiznitzer]

On Apr 22, 2012, at 5:23 AM, cornel fleming <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net> wrote:

>
> Mimi, the word "sophistry" rears its head at this point!! I am also
> slightly curious about your ancestor in 1858. At that time the town to which
> you refer was not under Austrian control...it was ruled by the Hungarian
> part of the Empire which did not recruit Jews to the regular forces. Very
> occasionally they were selectively and after a medical examination called up
> for about 60 days for basic training and then sent home as a reserve in case
> of a major war. So have you any more bits of that story???? Cornel
> PS Sent home because reserves were not paid so it made life cheaper for the
> Hungarian military budget.
>
>
>
> From: Miriam Taylor [mailto:mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu]
> Sent: 22 April 2012 04:15
> To: Cornel Fleming; HARDY BREIER; CZERNOWITZ-L
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Our origin.
>
>
>
> Cornel,
>
> Ah, but you forgot about exponential growth!
> King David lived in 1040-970 BC or about 3000 years ago.
> Assume a generation to be 30 years.
> Then since his lifetime there have been about 100 generations.
> Assume king David had 2 children, actually he had many more.
> If each of his children had two children, and if these, also had
> two children and so on, then the number of descendants of king David
> after 25 generations or 750 years, would have been 33,554,432.
> Since there were not over 33 million Jews in the year 220 BC, it follows
> that all Jews at that time were already descendants of king David.
> All the more so in our time.
>
> Mimi
>

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