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

ancient historical texts and provided a scientific basis for discussing the fate of the lost tribes, presented Nineveh as the pl ...

Isaiah does not copy so much assharethe geographical terminology and conceptual framework of the empire he so fears. To Isaiah, ...

in the regional power games between Egypt and the declining Assyria, and the disappearance of a powerful neighbor to its north, ...

Jehoiachin (Jeconiah), and took him back to Babylon. The last blow came in 586. The Babylonian armies came to Jerusalem, sacked ...

for example—the question remains as to how these were transformed into a story of the exile of an entire people, indeed of ten e ...

At first glance, the story of deportation as told in 2 Kings 17 is very much as told in the Assyrian sources—a punishment that w ...

That this backdrop stands as a lesson for the Judahites is underscored by the two tales’ outcomes. While the Assyrian campaign r ...

Lost: Israel as a Diaspora’s Diaspora The reframing of the deportations as divine punishment is one central build- ing block in ...

next redefined in terms of the Israelitepositionvis-a`-vis Judah and the Juda- hites. An overlaying complication was the fact th ...

(italics mine).^81 Thus, two types of exiled diaspora emerge from the text. The first remains visible and audible; the second is ...

proceeds to a list of actual place names; and concludes with “the four quarters of the earth.” The tension between known, specif ...

The tribes’ transition from being political deportees to messianic exiles was complete. But another key transition is embedded i ...

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2 An Enclosed Nation in Arzareth and Sambatyon I have heard indeed Of those Black Jews, their Ancient Creed And hoar tradition, ...

preserved and partially canonized by the various Christian churches and thus remained an important source of information about t ...

eighth centuriesCE, came the fusing of the ten tribes to the coming of the Messiah. The story’s basics were laid out in 2 Kings ...

The book of 2 Baruch is replete with the warnings, admonitions, and promises of doom and destruction that are familiar from the ...

word Arzareth, first coined in Esdras, became a ubiquitous code guiding the search for the tribes. Alastair Hamilton has shown t ...

They are the ten tribes that were taken off into exile in the days of King Hoshea, whom King Shalmanesser of Assyria took prison ...

Instead of following the customs of the gentiles among whom they found themselves, they decided to go into isolation, living acc ...