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

From thence [Hamadan] it takes four days to Tabaristan, which is situated on the river Gozan. Some 4 , 000 Jews live there.... T ...

geography has given way to a more mythical one, and the tribes are revealed as the pivot of the journey. Indeed, a bit of Benjam ...

hint of vicarious arrogance. As in the case of the Central Asian ten tribes, the Yemeni ten tribes story begins with an exorbita ...

reverses, in a manner similar to Eldad’s, defeat into triumph and Jews into the ten tribes. Here again is an instance of fantast ...

the world that was ruled by the Persians and that some of the tribes were exiled “to Afriki.” Three different figures are respon ...

after defeating the Hungarians. This came on the heels of the fall of Kiev a few months earlier and within the context of smalle ...

the scope of this study.^85 Several virtually self-explanatory examples suffice to show how Sir John weaves all together in his ...

comments on the aborted journey that “it is quite possible that Abulafia thought, as did many others of his generation, that the ...

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4 “A Mighty Multitude of Israelites” Year 5354 [ 1594 ]: In that year, I had the same dream two or three consecutive nights.... ...

Hebraeis Arabibus.David testified that he had come from the “Desert of Habor in Arabia.”^3 David told the pope that his people w ...

stalwart African Christian kingdom surrounded by Muslim lands.^9 All political parties involved—Venice, Portugal, and above all ...

be remembered any more?”^14 In case Israel’s doom was indeed the reason for the conversion, ha-Lorki had a ready answer: I know ...

scriptural statements on the ten tribes. Combining the two in relation to the ten tribes was a significant development and marks ...

massive. He estimated that the number of Jews expelled from Spain was 300 , 000.^22 The heavy sense of Jewish numerical insignif ...

had read or heard about Abravanel’s messianic scenario and the role the ten tribes play in it. This is not possible, however; th ...

well as Jewish global geographies. For Jews, it was the alleged land of the ten tribes, and for Christians, it was the home of P ...

It seems, then, that some Christian Ethiopian monks along with Muslim merchants coming from Africa supported the stories told by ...

attempts to forcibly reincorporate the Beta Israel into Christian society.^36 After Ya’ecop’s death, state pressure eased, and t ...

In the later part of the fifteenth century, Yemeni Jewry was swept with yet another messianic fervor, one that resulted in a maj ...