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

This transformation is rendered in graphic detail, with reversals of every possible geologic or topographic obstacle: that which ...

3 Tricksters and Travels And there are men of Israel in the land of Persia who say that in the mountains of Naisabur four of the ...

scientific thought both about the tribes and their whereabouts and about emerging world geography. The Jewish community of al-Qa ...

and they eat human beings.”^3 The Romarnos proved to be voracious but rational cannibals: They took hold of us and, seeing that ...

pigeon, and these cross the River Sambation and the pigeons come to their Kings and their Princes. The now-familiar notion of th ...

the link between the tribes and the edges of the world. The mysterious tribes that rescue Eldad from the cannibals come from “an ...

(Sa‘id al-Fayyumi, c. 882 – 942 ) commented that “there is not the slightest doubt that Halah, Habor, the river of Gozan, and th ...

Eldad was able to make the world of the ten lost tribes real for his listeners by blending it with tales and legends with which ...

doubt, of the problems concerning the Bible’s Persian context, and he made a point of telling his hosts that the tribes had no p ...

there. Eldad therefore inadvertently revealed his secret, but it went unnoticed. However, his slip of the tongue suggests that h ...

Naphtali, Gad, and Asher, journeyed on their own to the land of Ethiopia and encamped in the wilderness until they came to their ...

tribes in one place, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.”^37 So wrote the Jews of al- Qayrawan to Rabbi Zemah Gaon (d. 895 ), head of ...

removed Israelite group. From a theological point of view, their findings raised a set of problems of major importance that they ...

interpretation, thereby affirming the monopoly on the interpretation of scrip- ture claimed by the rabbinic establishment. For a ...

West Africa: From Nile to Niger with the Jews.^47 Both works suggest a link between modern ethnography and the Qayrawani interro ...

chief sages and prophets were exiled to Babylon and they founded the law and they fixed the yeshiva [school] on the River Euphra ...

Islamic conquests—into the geographic frame. Many subsequent seekers went to look for the tribes in China. Similarly, Eldad rein ...

after the most bloodthirsty slaughter.... Victorious the said John moved forward in order to come to the aid of the holy Church. ...

the cities from an attack by the children of Israel, for if they could pass the river they would destroy the world. The Israelit ...

chapter began. This prolific wanderer spent about thirteen years traveling mostly in the Mediterranean basin and in the Middle E ...