A reevaluation of the anthropological genetics literature on Jewish populations reveals them not simply to be a body of genetically related people descending from a small group of common ancestors, but rather a “mosaic” of peoples of diverse origins. Greek and other pre-medieval historiographic sources suggest the patterning evident in recent genetic studies could be explained by a major contribution from Greco-Roman and Anatolian-Byzantine converts who affiliated themselves with some iteration of Judaism beginning in the first and second centuries ce and continuing into the Middle Ages. These populations, along with Babylonian and Alexandrian Jewish communities, indigenous North Africans, and Slavic-speaking converts to Judaism, support a mosaic geography of Jewish ancestry in Europe and Western Asia, rather than one arising from a limited set of lineages originating solely in Palestine.

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犹太民族起源地理学

对关于犹太人口的人类学遗传学文献的重新评估表明，他们不仅是一群来自少数共同祖先的基因相关的人，而且是不同起源的民族的“马赛克”。 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 希腊和其他中世纪前史资料表明，最近的遗传研究中明显的模式可以通过希腊罗马和安纳托利亚拜占庭皈依者的主要贡献来解释，他们从一世纪和二世纪开始并继续与犹太教的某些迭代联系在一起进入中世纪。这些人口，连同巴比伦和亚历山大的犹太社区、北非土著人和斯拉夫语皈依者皈依犹太教，支持欧洲和西亚犹太血统的马赛克地理，