I've never been sold on khazar theory, but there may be some truth to it, I find Edomites being more likely, or a combination. Don't have time to do a deep dive tonight, but here's a supposed excerpt from 4chan anon.
"Armenia, and our fathers [the Jews of Byzantium], fled before the idol-worshipers. The people of Khazaria, received them. For the people of Khazaria were at first without Torah, while their neighbour, remained without Torah and writing. They, intermingled with the inhabitants of the land, intermingled with the gentiles, learned their practices, and would continually go out with them to war: and they became one people. However, they were confirmed only in the covenant of circumcision;…”
I've never been sold on khazar theory, but there may be some truth to it, I find Edomites being more likely, or a combination. Don't have time to do a deep dive tonight, but here's a supposed excerpt from 4chan anon.
"Armenia, and our fathers [the Jews of Byzantium], fled before the idol-worshipers. The people of Khazaria, received them. For the people of Khazaria were at first without Torah, while their neighbour, remained without Torah and writing. They, intermingled with the inhabitants of the land, intermingled with the gentiles, learned their practices, and would continually go out with them to war: and they became one people. However, they were confirmed only in the covenant of circumcision;…”
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