You shouldn’t think of “Hebrew Roots” as some kind of denomination or sect of religion in the same manner you might consider Fundamenalist Mormons or Jehovah Witnesses. It doesn’t have a founding document or bound up with a historical person, but more akin to a conspiracy theory than anything else. Hebrew Roots is essentially a worldview predicated almost entirely on what I’d call a pseudo-history of religion that is offered as an alternative to traditional Church history done inside religious organizations and as an alternative to the secular accounts of Church history done in modern day academia.
When Tamar starts ranting about Pagans it has more in common with someone like Christopher Cantwell ranting about Jews than actual historical paganism. That same sort of paranoid hermeneutic used by people to divine the influence of Jews by the prevalance of cuckporn on imageboards is the same kind at work with adherents of Hebrew Roots.
The entire movement isn’t well documented yet and to be honest, the historical conditions that even made the movement possible also help ensure it’ll never be anything more than a loose association of fringe communities and eccentric individuals with little to no digital footprint to a moderate one. To be brutally honest, people like Tamar and Anaiah are representative of the kind of people associated with the movement. It is a haven for legitimate predators looking to establish cults and those afflicted with personality disorders, which makes the community susceptible to chaos and prone to extreme drama.
What draws me to groups like this is that it forces people to become autodidactics to fill in the details of the pseudo-history used to prop up their religion. The results of those home studies are fascinating to me and I often read them closely. That was why I was asking both Tamar and Anaiah questions about their beliefs because I wanted to gauge how much they’ve studied. I stopped with Tamar because how she answered communicated to me everything I needed to know and Anaiah is so open and prolific that I have more material than I could hope to consume.
That reminds me...
@xtamarlover if you don't already own it, you should probably pick up Eerdmans' English translation of the
Samaritan Torah if you consider them some kind of lost tribe.
