Jews don't acknowledge the torah, because it's a book about many nations during the time. Israelites and Hebrews are not jews, only one tribe - Judah - became such. Judah was a liar, sold his brother into slavery, then attempted to buy his daughter-in-law as a prostitute, and died in poverty. The house of Windsor uses the lion to subtly lay claim to Judah's lineage, ironically.
So they've essentially stolen every piece of heritage they claim, except they were actually the Canaanites that sacrificed children and ate them. Which is why God commanded the other tribes to exterminate them.
european heraldry only emerges after the crusades, and from thereon they all adopt different heralds of the 12 tribes. i wonder what they found in Jerusalem that made them do that. the two most common symbols, the lion and the eagle, definitely pre-date jews and were very commonly used by the hittites: https://i1.wp.com/www.stijnvandenhoven.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/eagle4.jpg
in fact the double-headed eagle was even used in ancient sumeria. alexander the great and all other macedonians had the lion as their symbol and they too used it during the middle ages: http://www.historyofmacedonia.org/Macedoniansymbols/images/1Coat_of_arms_of_Macedonia_1595.jpg
the oldest use of the lion goes back 40,000 years to Germany where the lion man figurine was found. you don't find anything of similar skill for about another 30,000 years, and the skill used suggests that if they can make something like that just out of idleness, they could certainly make tools out of necessity: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b6/64/7a/b6647a21a84e35f30ec1d9db5f176d60.jpg
So essentially making Judah the lion aligns him with the German and royal contexts, rather than the royals invoking Biblical imagery. Fitting. I've never understood his prominence, and here it's all brand positioning.
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