‘Aqiva, Rabbi (c. 50–135), 74–75, 80
apocalypse, 11–12, 19–20, 24, 61, 72, 102,
109, 111, 138, 146.See also
eschatology; messianism;
millenarianism
Arabia, 14, 39, 85–88, 92–93, 99, 106.
See alsoMecca
Arctic Circle, 12, 96, 145, 148, 164, 186,
212
Armenia and Armenian, 6, 57, 73, 100,
127, 128, 166, 191, 220
Arzareth, 57, 60–71, 77, 142–149, 152–156,
164–166, 179–180, 191–195,
197, 225
Asher (tribe), 1, 95, 104
and Ethiopia, 86–88, 94
Ashurbanipal (r. 669–627), 34–35, 41, 68
Asia, 3, 4, 12, 58, 66, 70, 82, 89, 92, 93,
99, 100, 105, 108, 114, 130, 142–143,
148–149, 152, 156, 158, 162–165, 166,
183, 189–192, 195–196, 199, 204,
205, 206, 212–213, 225
Central, 4, 66, 88, 90, 101, 103,
106–108, 119, 145, 149, 152, 154, 189,
206, 213–214
East, 4, 51
North, 110, 145, 148, 153–156, 162–164,
195, 202, 205, 206
Southeast, 144–145
Asia Minor, 66, 69
Assyria, 2, 4–5, 11–12, 60–65
as empire and world, 39–45, 58
images of, 1–2, 11, 44–45, 70–71, 178, 182
and Judah, 45, 47–48
as place, 16, 29, 53–55, 88, 92, 95–96,
99, 100, 108, 185–186, 189, 209
see alsoAshurbanipal; Esarhaddon;
Nineveh; Sargon II; Senacherib;
Shalmanesser; Tiglath-pileser III
Assyrian deportations, 31–38
biblical representations of, 47–50.See
alsoexile
Atlantic Ocean, 4, 27, 125, 136, 157–158,
162–164, 174, 181
Atlantis, 21, 22, 146, 160–166,
191, 201
Avichail, Eliyahu, 223
Axum, 92
Augustine, St., 18Babylonian Empire, 40, 42, 46–47, 52,
66, 68.See alsoexile, Babylonian
Balfur Declaration, 222
Baron, David (1857–1926), 188
Baruch,59–60
Basnage, Jacques (1653–1723), 173
Ben-Israel, Manasseh (1604–1657), 137,
164, 167, 173–174, 177–184, 191,
207–208, 226
Ben-Zvi, Yizhak (1884–1963), 220
Benjamin (tribe), 17, 67, 75, 85,
91, 105
Benjamin of Tudela (12th century), 3, 85,
100–108, 110, 114, 116, 119, 122, 131,
149, 152, 154, 159, 206, 211, 213
Berbers, 6
Bertinoro, Rabbi Obadaia di (c. 1450–
1516), 120–122
Bigfoot, 12
Black Sea, 145–146, 192, 195, 197
Blackbeard (Edward Teach), 210–211
Bloch, Chana, 14
Boudinot, Elias (1740–1821), 19, 141–142,
182–183
Boxer Rebellion (Society of Right and
Harmonious Fists), 4, 215–216
Boxtorj, Johannes (1564–1629), 135
Britain (England), 5, 19, 21, 29, 61, 79,
106, 141, 169–175, 198, 203, 210,
213–214
and the “Isles of Sea,” 25
and Zionism, 221–223
see alsoAnglo-Israelism
Brothers, Richard (1757–1823), 187–190,
196.See alsoAnglo-Israelism
Buchanan, Claudius (1766–1815), 204
Byzantines, 93, 101, 145, 149