The Kingdom Bible Concordance
St. Petersburg, Florida: Marantha Fellowship, Inc., ©1955. First Edition. An obscure British Israel concordance written and published by the American minister, religious publisher, and former Ku Klux Klan organizer Charles Lewis Fowler (1870–1972), who was founder and president of the Kingdom Bible Seminary in St. Petersburg, Florida. Unlike conventional biblical concordances organized principally around scriptural vocabulary, Fowler's work assembles biblical references, explanatory definitions, and genealogical charts to substantiate the central doctrines of British Israelism, particularly the identification of Anglo-Saxon peoples as descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel. The author emphasizes the distinction between the House of Israel and the House of Judah, arguing that the covenantal birthright passed through Joseph to Ephraim and Manasseh, whose modern descendants he identifies respectively with Great Britain and the United States. He also traces the descent of the British monarchy from the biblical King David through the legendary Irish princess Tea Tephi, providing elaborate genealogical charts culminating with Queen Elizabeth II.
Fowler's ostensibly scholarly arrangement of biblical material serves a distinctly ideological purpose, presenting Anglo-American political dominance as the fulfillment of divine prophecy and identifying the English-speaking nations as God's chosen covenant people. Particularly revealing are entries distinguishing Jews from Israelites and Judah from Israel, including a reference to the racial mixture of the Jewish people and the characterization of Jews as a remnant distinct from the supposedly authentic Israelite descendants in northern Europe.
Among the illustrations are genealogical charts connecting biblical patriarchs to British royalty, a diagram of the separate national and ecclesiastical laws of Israel, and a chart of Noah's descendants assigning modern national and racial identities to biblical lineages. An intriguing example of the intersection of fundamentalist biblical interpretation, pseudohistorical genealogy, and white Protestant nationalism during the mid-twentieth century, made especially significant by the author's documented history within the Ku Klux Klan and Citizens' Council.
Comb-bound binding, 91, [1] pp., charts, tables, illustrations in rear. Some chewing along the bottom edge near the spine; distribution stamp of prominent British Israel expositor J. A. Lovell to the title page (obscuring publishing information). Not found in OCLC, SIBA, nor anywhere online. Item #15456
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