I have a hope that this topic would not be classified as religious propaganda. It is about quite thought-provoking theory about one of straight male lineages. I suppose that existence of haplogroup J2-Z435 may be a proof of existence of characters from religious books.
I coined a theory that quite common "European" subclade of J2 - Z435 is the lineage of biblical patriarch Jacob. I suppose that its holders may be descendants of Jacob who lived about 3800 - 3700 ybp.
YFull estimates age of Z435 as 3300 ybp, which is quite close to the period in which patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob lived. YFull estimates may be to 20-25% too low. Z435 expands quite rapidly (to at least 5 lineages: M137, M318, PH2725(?), CTS3601, Z2177).
There is also on YFull tree Z435* sample from Portugal and L70* sample from Ajlun region in northwestern Jordan (maybe descendant of Ammonites, who were descendants of Abraham's nephew Lot). L70xZ435 was also found in Germany (#N14008 in FTDNA), Spain (#357685) and Saudi Arabia (#M10220). In FTDNA project for haplogroup J2-L24 there is quite many (about 300-400) samples of L70 (https://www.familytreedna.com/public/J-L24-Y-DNA?iframe=yresults), so it is quite common lineage. It is interested why L70+ Z435- sample was found in Saudi Arabia - maybe it is descendant of Ishmael or one of sons of Keturah?
I coined a theory that quite common "European" subclade of J2 - Z435 is the lineage of biblical patriarch Jacob. I suppose that its holders may be descendants of Jacob who lived about 3800 - 3700 ybp.
YFull estimates age of Z435 as 3300 ybp, which is quite close to the period in which patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob lived. YFull estimates may be to 20-25% too low. Z435 expands quite rapidly (to at least 5 lineages: M137, M318, PH2725(?), CTS3601, Z2177).
There is also on YFull tree Z435* sample from Portugal and L70* sample from Ajlun region in northwestern Jordan (maybe descendant of Ammonites, who were descendants of Abraham's nephew Lot). L70xZ435 was also found in Germany (#N14008 in FTDNA), Spain (#357685) and Saudi Arabia (#M10220). In FTDNA project for haplogroup J2-L24 there is quite many (about 300-400) samples of L70 (https://www.familytreedna.com/public/J-L24-Y-DNA?iframe=yresults), so it is quite common lineage. It is interested why L70+ Z435- sample was found in Saudi Arabia - maybe it is descendant of Ishmael or one of sons of Keturah?