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

attempted empirical verification, and the accommodation of prophecy. The search is an exercise in thinking theologically about g ...

brought, through the search for the ten lost tribes, into a spatial as well as temporal domain. The geographical theology that o ...

the search for the lost tribes. When Uziel Haga, who sought McKinley’s permission to travel to China, set out with his “soul... ...

Maharal’s conclusion was not only logical. It also proved correct, up to a point. Since his time, other new, albeit smaller, wor ...

an agent of history.”^77 Similarly, the case of Lemuria demonstrates the power and vitality of the geography of what is not visi ...

world at one go. The focus on a subset, framed by a whole world, is a defining characteristic of world history and of ten-tribes ...

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1 Assyrian Tributes I besieged and conquered Samerina. I took as booty 27 , 290 people who lived there. I gathered 50 chariots f ...

searching for them. More important, it presents and analyzes the ways in which these defeats and losses were theologized and bel ...

entered a long turbulent period. It became at first a vassal of the expanding empire, but soon lost a number of its territories ...

As in the earlier case, the biblical narrative provides a similar account: the king of Assyria deported the people of Samaria, s ...

Assyrian deportations to Palestine are recounted in the book of Ezra, in which there are two instances of groups of people claim ...

[as Assyrian cities]. I settled therein people of foreign lands, conquered by me.”^19 The Assyrian record of the period is large ...

While the overall thrust is to affirm the Lord of Israel’s divine supremacy over the region, the specifics are clues to the unde ...

grain and new wine.”^24 The deportation of many, though, was simply a form of punishment, and their experience was of “hardship ...

to hear, see, and heed. The world created by Assyrian propaganda and imperial communications was larger and wider than its actua ...

Figure 2.1. Assyrian and Babylonian empires. Source: Boardman, The Cambridge Ancient History ,p. 104 (map 3 ). ...

markers (“the four corners”) that set it off from other, lesser territories. The Assyrian king was “King of the Universe [everyt ...

power to the myth—the borders beyond which the tribes were thought to have disappeared became ever receding, just like the borde ...

for “overthrown,”nehepekhet,literally means “turned upside down,” and it has been taken as a word-play alluding to the ultimate ...