When
the [Edomite-]Jews were finally run out of
Palestine by the Romans in A.D. 70, the bulk of
them moved on up into the ancient city of
Byzantium, later named
Constantinople. They settled in and around there, and they
were there until approximately 300 A.D. By that time their consistent rascality
had again become so intolerable that they were run out. They went east and
northeast into this Khazar kingdom. The Khazars were pagan, as they came in from
central
Asia. You’ll remember that
Mohammedanism began its rise in 622 A.D. among the Saracens, the Arabs, and it
spread very rapidly. About 640 A.D., three religions were attempting to
proselytize Bulan, the king of the Khazars; Christianity, Mohammedanism and
Judaism. The Jews were the best salesmen. They convinced Bulan, and in those
days to differ with the king strongly on matters of religion didn’t make you a
very favorable life insurance risk. Hence, conversion to Judaism spread quite
rapidly. In a single one-day ceremony, some 4,000 of the nobility of the Khazar
kingdom were officially converted to Judaism. In fact, it became a part of the
constitution of the Khazar kingdom that no man, even though legitimately
entitled to the throne by birth, no man could take the throne of the
Khazar
Kingdom unless he was by religion a Jew.
