When Christianity spread out from Jerusalem, the first place they went to were the Jewish communities throughout the Roman and Persian (Parthian) empires. Judaism was not limited to Judea and Galilee.

Even if some of the legend of ‘lost tribes’ are true they have no bearing on this discussion as they had no contact with the writers and theologians of the early church and could not give them an authentic perspective on the language and culture of the bible.

Deacon