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

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  1. For a good survey in English of some of these groups, see Gonen,Ends of the
    Earth.

  2. Koishi,Nihonjin;and particularly Matsumoto and Eidelberg,Yamato Minzoku
    Yudayajin. Matsumoto even argues that ten tribesmen escaping Asia were the founders
    of the Yamato state.

  3. Anderson,God’s Covenant Race.

  4. On the Almohads and Berbers and the ten lost tribes, see Nebot,Les Tribus
    Oublie ́es, 32 – 34.

  5. Margolis, “Finding the Lost Tribes.” It will be impossible to provide references
    to all instances. For the best study of various versions of such claims, see Parfitt,Lost
    Tribes of Israel.

  6. Kirsch, “Lost Tribes,” 58. Kirsch ties the assigning of the “lost tribal identity” to
    discovered tribes to “the expansion of the world system,” 65. The study of assigning lost
    tribal identity in such contexts started with Godbey,Lost Tribes a Myth. For a compre-
    hensive bibliography, see Parfitt,Lost Tribes of Israel. See also Parfitt, “Hebrew in
    Colonial Discourse.”

  7. I borrow both terms and their definitions from Pratt’sImperial Eyes, 6 – 7.

  8. Hyamson, “Lost Tribes,” 640 – 641.

  9. Lyman, “Postmodernism,” 192.

  10. Witsius,Dekaphylon. James Calvert (d. 1698 ),Naphtali...Reditu Decem Tri-
    buum(Naphtali... The Return of the Ten Tribes), which also has a historical segment in
    it, is a few years earlier but is mostly focused on the theory that the Native Americans are
    the descendants of the tribes.

  11. Muller,After Calvin, 176 – 188.

  12. Witsius,Dekaphylon, 307.

  13. Ibid., 330.

  14. Ibid., 306.
    31 .Floyer,Sibylline Oracles, xiv. See also Floyer,Prophecies, 155 – 161 , and elsewhere.
    On Floyer, see Hamilton,Apocryphal Apocalypse, 279 – 285.

  15. The best and most comprehensive study of such an inflection of the ten tribes
    is Andrew Gow’sThe Red Jews, which focuses on late medieval and early modern
    Germany. The literature in Hebrew is vast; for a bibliography, see Vail,Me-‘Ever
    La-Sambatyon.

  16. Jacobovici and Halpern,Quest for the Lost Tribes;Cameron et al.,Lost Tomb of
    Jesus.

  17. Lee,Lost Tribe;see also Simons,Exiled Times;Blackwell,Michael’s Fire;Aronin,
    Lost Tribe.

  18. Somtow,Aquila in the New World.
    36 .McGrady,Beyond the Black Ocean. On McGrady, see Terrar, “Catholic Socialism.”

  19. Lindelof,Trip to the North Pole, 11.

  20. Ibid., 197 – 198.

  21. “Travels of Binyamin the Third,” “The Portuguese Traveler Who Visited the
    Tribes of Simeon and Issacher,” “How the Goat Led the Way to the Ten Tribes,” and
    more are all cited in Vail,Me-‘Ever La-Sambatyon, 66 – 70.


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