The Ten Lost Tribes. A World History - Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

day actually prove to be possible.^122 The Asian theory was not only much stronger in that it involved no need to revive Atlanti ...

Garcı ́a was very familiar with both Zaltieri’s map and Maldonado’s descrip- tion of the straits; he referenced both in his narr ...

Garcı ́a, Rocha identified the Toltecs as the descendants of the ten tribes; his treatment involved careful readings of all the ...

Between Gregorio Garcı ́a’s 1607 Origen de los Indiosand Rocha’s 1681 unique and singularOrigen de los Indiosstood Menasseh Ben- ...

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6 Hopes of Israel My brethren, as thou call’st them, those ten tribes I must deliver, if I mean to reign. —John Milton,Paradise ...

learns all about the ten tribes—a featured, lengthy chapter on Palestine gives a detailed account.^2 Two centuries later, Palest ...

An even more bluntly political use of the ten tribes story came after the ascension of the house of Hanover to the English Crown ...

and political question, the history of the ten tribes was evidently very much on people’s minds throughout the seventeenth and e ...

The ten tribes, it seems, had a monopoly on lostness and on the condition of being lost in an unknown country. Defoe was perhaps ...

milieu of Iberian New Christians returning to Judaism in the sixteenth centu- ry. The broader setting for the story was the Span ...

facilitate the missionary project, since the Indians’ path to civilization would consequently be “shorter.”^37 As descendants of ...

settle in England starting in 1664. (Ben-Israel had passed away seven years earlier, under the impression that his two-year miss ...

Hebrew title of the book,Miqveh Israel,while alluding to the Hebrew rootqvh (“to hope”), alludes also to the restorative messian ...

as Postel and Ge ́nebrard, and Spanish writers such as Jose ́de Acosta and Gregorio Garcı ́a. With respect to geography, the lis ...

[A]nd why not some of them sail fromChina,and Anian...which do border upon New Spaine; and from thence they went to Panama, Peru ...

Genebrardus, quotingEsdrasconcerning the wandering of the 10 tribes, saith, theArsarethisTartaria the Greaterand from thence the ...

yon—a position that was, for instance, still maintained by Farissol only a century before. In deserting the single-location theo ...

embodied inHope of Israel.“There is a strong argument in favor of the Indians being converted to Christianity, their being desce ...

and voyages.^65 Writing at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Boudinot was quite convinced that the discoveries made since ...