In an earlier paper, I detailed the many intermarriages that are documented between the Jews in the Old Testament and the people groups around them.
It was clear from this analysis that they began as a mixed people group and continued to mix with outsiders through the end of New Testament times.
This has profound implications on the genetic patterns we should expect to be found among them today.
Here, I outline multiple relevant lines of genetic evidence that demonstrate this mixing.
Most of this genetic information is for events more recent than many of the episodes in the biblical narrative, but they illustrate the nature of populations that live in proximity to other people groups.
It is clear that modern-day Judaism carries a core set of ancient lineages tracing back to the Middle East, plus a large fraction of newer genes brought in by more recent mixing.
Is this core set of genes enough to conclude they indeed trace back to biblical times? Indeed so.
This exercise should inform us about how races form and what racial differences should exist among the people living on earth today.
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