Who are the real Hebrew people today not the Jewish proselytes?

Answer 1

Answer 1

Since intermarriage among Jews has been quite rare for the last 3000 years, it's unlikely that the Hebrew were someone else other than the Jews of today.

Answer 2

In addition to the words of my learned colleagues, which are reiterated in full, I would like to add that the phrasing of "Real Hebrews" is commonly seen among those who advocate ideas supported by the Black Israelite Churches that the "Real Hebrews" are Africans or similar groups that are not of Semitic origin. Of course, no such claim survives when scrutinized. The Black Israelite Churches believe that this is the case regardless of this evidence. They also believe this in spite of the facts that many of the peoples they consider to be Israelite Tribes are either wholly or partially mixed with non-Blacks (such as Whites or Native-Americans) which should cause major theological problems since the Black Israelites' claim to be the true Israelites rests on the fact that they were moved by ships and sold in distant lands which did not occur for either Whites or Native-Americans.

Answer 2

Abraham and Sarah came from southern Iraq and their wider family from northern Iraq. Since DNA tests have shown that Jews intermarried infrequently throughout history, Abraham and his Israelite descendants probably looked like Jews today.
DNA testing of Jewish communities worldwide has shown that they are all interrelated and of Middle Eastern genetics, comparable to the Sephardim today (not African or Egyptian).
In 2000, the analysis of a report by Nicholas Wade "provided genetic witness that Jewish communities have, to a remarkable extent, retained their biological identity separate from their host populations, evidence of relatively little intermarriage or conversion into Judaism over the centuries. The results accord with Jewish history and tradition." Meaning: the Jews are who they say they are.

Those who attempt to claim otherwise (as your Question insinuates) are regurgitating an anti-Semitic canard made popular by a Jewish Jew-hater named Koestler. It has been debunked by DNA studies on Jewish communities from around the world. It has been found that Ashkenazim, and other Jews from all over the Earth, are quite closely related and originated in the Middle East.

A 2013 study of Ashkenazi mitochondrial DNA found no significant evidence of Khazar (Gentile European) contribution to the Ashkenazi Jewish DNA, as would be predicted by the Khazar hypothesis; and although there is no historical or DNA evidence to support the Khazar idea, it is still popular among anti-Semites.

Answer 3

Over the past 15 years, geneticists have identified links between the world's Jewish communities that point to a common ancestry. There can be no doubt that the ancient Hebrews are represented to a significant extent in the DNA of most Jews alive today. Still, the origin of one of the most important Jewish populations, the Ashkenazim of central and eastern Europe, remained a mystery.
A new genetic analysis, in the journal Nature Communications, points to European women as the principal female founders, and to the Jewish community of the early Roman Empire as the possible source of the Ashkenazi ancestors. A team led by Martin Richards of the University of Huddersfield in Britain took a fresh look at Ashkenazi lineages by decoding the entire mitochondrial genome of people from Europe and the Near East. Their finding reinforces the idea that many Jewish communities in Europe were founded by single men who married and converted local women.

Unlike the Y chromosomes, which bore patterns typically found in the Near East, mitochondrial DNA used to study maternal lineage showed no common pattern. In several of the smaller Jewish communities, it clearly resembled that of the surrounding population. It wasn't clear, however, whether this was true of the Ashkenazim.

This uncertainty seemed to be resolved by a survey published in 2006. Its authors reported that the four most common mitochondrial DNA lineages among Ashkenazim came from the Near East, implying that just four Jewish women were the ancestresses of nearly half of today's Ashkenazim. However, decoding DNA was quite expensive at the time, and the authors of the 2006 survey analysed only a short length of the mitochondrial DNA in all their subjects.

Now, with the entire mitochondrial genome in hand, Professor Richards and his researchers estimated that at least 80 per cent of Ashkenazi maternal ancestry comes from women indigenous to Europe, and 8 per cent from the Near East, with the rest uncertain.

A Hebrew bloodline exists in the Ashkenazim Jews of today, but this is now recognised to be substantially diluted by intermarriage. Some Middle Eastern Jews would be descended from Arabic converts to Judaism, but they would be impossible to identify through DNA, as Arabs are so closely related to Jews.