Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Vincent Immer wrote:
> Thank you for your answers.

> They are still some jewish famillies with the patronyme
> IMMER, do they come from the IMMER ha Cohen from
> the Bible?

No.  The names probably have their roots in Europe.
The specific lineage to various families and lines of priests
in the Second Temple period have been lost.

> Reading the Bible it looks like part of this familly went
> with gentille women in Babylon, and were apparently
> rejected from Israel.

The whole issue of this rejection has to be investigated
critically.  There is even a whole book (in Hebrew):
Have the "Foreign Women" Really Been Expelled? by
Yonina Dor:
http://www.magnespress.co.il/website_en/index.asp?category=231&id=2655#aaa
(The short answer of the author is "No").
You can buy it at Shvua Hasefer in a few weeks.

Yitzhak Sapir