George Moore (physician)

Dr. George Moore MD (1803 - 1880) was a physician and British Isrealite.[1]

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Career

Moore became a Doctor of Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in the 1830's. He published several successful books on medicine, but after reading John Wilson's Our Israelitish Origin (1840) became an early proponent of British Israelism and turned to writing on history and religion.

British Israelism

In 1861 Moore published The Lost Tribes and the Saxons of the East and of the West with new Views of Buddhism, and Translations of Rock-Records in India which was one of the earlier works on British Israelism, alongside John Wilson's and Charles Piazzi Smyth's works. Moore in his work was the first to propose that Gautama Buddha was an Israelite, an idiosyncratic view not held by many other British Israelites at the time. Later he worked on attempting to deciphere the Newton Stone.

Newton Stone

Main article: Newton Stone

In Ancient Pillar Stones of Scotland, their Significance and Bearing on Ethnology (1865) Moore proposed that the "unknown script" on the Newton Stone was written in Hebrew-Bactrian by an ancient "Hebrew Buddhist missionary to Scotland".[2][3] His decipherment was not popular with most scholars at the time who considered the unknown script to be Latin or Greek, but other academics had proposed the script was Phoenician.[4]

Works

Medicine

The power of the soul over the body, considered in relation to health and morals (1847)
Health, disease and remedy : familiarly & practically considered, in a few of their relations to the blood (1850)
The use of the body in relation to the mind (1852)

British Israelism

The Lost Tribes and the Saxons of the East and of the West with new Views of Buddhism, and Translations of Rock-Records in India (1861)

Newton Stone

Ancient Pillar Stones of Scotland, their Significance and Bearing on Ethnology (1865)

References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ Thomson, A (1865) "Notice of the various attempts which have been made to read and interpret the inscription on the Newton Stone, Garioch, Aberdeenshire", Proc Soc Antiq Scot, vol.5, page(s): 224-34.
  3. ^ Notes and queries, "The Newton Stone", Oxford Journals, Oxford University Press, 1864, p.111.
  4. ^ The Intellectual observer, "The Newton Stone", Vol. 9, 1866, pp. 107-109.