From Transformed by Truth, an out-of-print booklet by somebody who helped shepherd the Worldwide Church of God out of their cult beliefs:
When you start carefully reading Anglo-Israelite literature, you begin to notice how it generally depends on folklore, legends, quasi-historical genealogies, and dubious etymologies. None of these sources proves an Israelite origin for the peoples of northwestern Europe. Rarely, if ever, are the disciplines of archeology, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, or historiography applied to Anglo-Israelism. Anglo-Israelism can operate only outside the sciences. And its handling of the biblical data is no better. To make many of its conclusions plausible, it must ignore large portions of Scripture which would immediately puncture it with holes the size of football fields.
Such an unscientific and unbiblical approach must be taken because anything else would pop Anglo-Israelism’s balloon. We discovered that those who apply sound hermeneutics, scientific disciplines, and the principles of accepted historiography to this subject eventually dismiss the theory. That is certainly what happened with us.
He says it better, and so much more succinctly, than I did.
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