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

Aden straits. On the eastern African side of these narrow straits was Ethiopia, endpoint on a trail of several important city po ...

kingdom as an integral part of any future Portuguese move following David’s appearance in Europe—and so should we. Portuguese ac ...

might not be directly connected to David’s story, his career and character are a wonderful illustration of the culture of rumors ...

Covilhan found himself detained, or so he claimed, by Eskander’s successors. The Ethiopian rulers apparently loved him so much t ...

historian Miriam Eliav-Feldon aptly describes and analyzes as European “cre- dulity.”^64 Outside Europe, on the Red Sea, there w ...

Matheus “because at the time I was eleven.”^68 (This letter arrived in Portugal in 1527 and was partly responsible for the demis ...

distract themselves from the troubles and the sorrows with poetry of lust and books of ancient wars that never took place.”^70 T ...

Though Farissol was writing a few decades before the idea of total habit- ability took final shape, he was aware of the problems ...

regard that David was of use. “I, Abraham Farissol, wrote in order to expose to the uninformed the itineraries of the world; I c ...

first modern researcher of the ten tribes who was burdened with the challenge of proving their existence. Farissol’s actual trea ...

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5 Concordia Mundi Inasmuch as the body became torn asunder [when Jeroboam led away the ten tribes], the Prophet says, Together s ...

he had stayed for six months, there were several important people who were particularly interested in its veracity and were wait ...

four jumped up and hugged Montezinos. Two of the men started reciting the Shema, from Deuteronomy ( 6 : 4 ), which calls upon al ...

Esdras had begun its rise to prominence in Europe almost two centuries earlier, during the 1480 s, when humanist scholarly circl ...

Horizons and Possibilities On April 21 , 1519 , a small Spanish army led by Herna ́n Corte ́s( 1485 – 1547 ) landed in Ulua, the ...

would make one forever young and El Dorado would make one forever rich (not to mention the implications of an encounter with the ...

not only Isaiah and other biblical prophets were on Columbus’s mind. Most significantly, there was Esdras,^25 an important eleme ...

tribes scholar, and the development of an Incan ten tribes identity. In the United States, President Thomas Jefferson found it n ...

cosmographer, mathematician, and professor of Hebrew at the universities of Heidelberg and, later, Basel—is best known for hisBi ...