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

Unlike the more familiar Jewish exile in the known places of Babylon or Egypt, Arzareth is “another place” in the deeper sense o ...

Anderson defined the known world as the “oikoumene, the civilized world of common interests”; the gate marks its utmost limit. T ...

How Did Ezra Lose the Tribes? In chronological terms, the canonical book of Ezra marks the last chapter in the biblical saga tha ...

The imagery of a man leading people to the promised land is clear: Ezra is nothing less than a new Moses, and he is seen as such ...

Assyria” (Ezra 4 : 3 ). They write a letter of complaint to the Persian emperor that is included in Ezra. It mentions several na ...

geography, on one point there was clear agreement: India and Ethiopia repre- sented the two edges of the world, “back to back ne ...

but two tribes in Asia and Europe subject to the Romans, while the ten tribes are beyond [the] Euphrates till now, and are an im ...

left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. (Esdras 11 : 15 – 16 ) Esdras’ ...

the ten tribes, keeping them “enclosed [behind] a river across Persia” (trans Persida flumine clausi).^50 Commodianus is but one ...

outside Jerusalem in 701 BCEwhen Rabshakeh had beseeched the people of the city to surrender, promising to take the surrendering ...

doubt. Again, we see echoes of the Greco-Roman edges of the world, beyond which the ten tribes are located. Remarkably, while th ...

exilic status of the ten tribes was not quite the same as the familiar Jewish one, and their disappearance had somehow to be acc ...

another to Daphne in Antiochia, and the third was covered by cloud which descended upon them. Like them, tribes of Reuben, Gad, ...

beyond mountains of darkness, or in darkness itself. They are beyond a river, or swallowed up, or covered by a cloud. The refere ...

tribes’ exile. In some passages, we read that the tribes were exiled “beyond” Sambatyon. In others, we find them exiled “to” Sam ...

of David. (The Rechabites ultimately became the model for the Independent Order of Rechabites, an anti-alcohol organization foun ...

How did this happen? An early Talmudic story recounts a dialogue about the Sabbath between the “wicked Turnus Rufus” and Rabbi ‘ ...

Of course, not all of the features and facets of the Roman Saturn were duplicated in rabbinic literature. But some were woven in ...

being “ignorant where this River rises, or where it ends, whether in Asia, Africa, or in Utopia.”^78 Ludolf probably uses the te ...

the ground—“being like a mole” (mehaldin,from the wordholed,mole).^80 The image of the ten tribes returning to Jerusalem the way ...