>>24671661
I have no interest in the Khazar stuff. Maybe there's something to it, but it sounds like Christian Identity cope to me. Yeah the small group in Italy was "Jews", I guess.

20 year old study:

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2013/10/08/ashkenazi-jewish-women-descended-mostly-from-italian-converts-new-study-asserts/

Pic related is over 30 years old and is a common textbook in Ancient Near East studies. Thomas L. Thompson, Philip R. Davies, Niels Lemche, nowadays Russell Gmirkin, lots of others. The Copenhagen School of Biblical Minimalism is pushing 40 years old.

https://www.amazon.com/Search-Ancient-Israel-Biblical-Testament/dp/1850757372