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

Hebraist practices produced a wealth of new material on the ten tribes, marking the beginning of a direct, if not quite transpar ...

Its inclusion seems connected more to the cosmographer’s commitment to biblical legacies than to geographical fact. Mu ̈nster’s ...

ous legends like “the unicorn, Prester John, and Atlantis.”^55 Black Sea histori- an Charles King notes that, for “ancient write ...

Davidic kingdom that had first created the ten tribes and their disappearance thereafter. In earlier periods, the search for the ...

an example of the contemporary sentiments about the ten tribes. While these sentiments represent the non-Catholic side, they arg ...

inhabitants. In Matthew of Paris and John of Mandeville, the ten tribes and the “tartars,” broadly defined, were considered one ...

Figure5.2.Detail from Abraham Ortelius, “Tartary; or, Kingdom of the Great Khan.” CourtesyCartographica Neerlandica. ...

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the tribe of Naphtali.^66 There is much in support of the idea that Ortelius had Benjamin in mind as he wrote about the Hephthal ...

map produced just two decades later. This transformation still begs the ques- tion, however. While we can be sure that Ortelius ...

His restless engagement with all sorts of religious strands was part of his self-understanding as a mystical peacemaker—thecongr ...

most crushing victory.^89 One can see the parallel between the breaking of the Red Sea and the ten tribes crossing the river on ...

Americas. In 1580 , thirty-six years after the first map with Arzareth appeared, the French Orientalist and Hebraist archbishop ...

Thus, the ten tribes’ road to America that culminated with Ge ́nebrard was long and involved a mixture of geographical logic, ea ...

Canaria, wrote that “there was not even a single trace of Hebrew, or custom, or rite, or idiom” that would support the theory th ...

which appeared too far from Nineveh geographically, met the biblical specifi- cations: “In the sea one covers 50 leagues per day ...

His comparisons between Jewish and Indian rites can also be seen as a precursor to practices that in time would become increasin ...

veh at a pace of twenty miles (seven leagues) per day. He also used Hosea to justify their treatment by the Spaniards, the first ...

as Montezinos envisions it, is not only a restoration with the rest of the Israelite people, but a promise of punishment and eve ...

far too big to sink in the ocean without a trace: “What sea could be great enough to swallow such a vast extent of land... so co ...