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

El Dorado, 22, 139–140.See alsoOphir
Eldad Ha-Dani, 86–90, 100–105,
107–108, 122, 124, 132, 159, 195,
206, 207, 209, 224
interrogated, 95–99
as trickster, 90–92
as a Yemeni Jew, 92–94
Eleni, Queen of Ethiopia, 128
Eliade, Mircea, 24
Emanuel, Menahem Mendel, 221–222
enclosed jews, 71–72, 130, 131, 205–206
Ephraim (tribe), 1, 8–9, 16, 19, 182
as England, 187–198
as kingdom, 8–9, 29
in prophecy, 17, 50, 113, 147, 196, 208
Erskine, John (1721–1803), 171
Esarhaddon (r. 681–669), 34–35,
67–68
eschatiai(most distant lands), 65, 71
eschatoi andro ̄n(furthest of men), 69, 71,
89, 119
eschatology, 24, 27, 61, 102, 109, 111, 118,
140, 190, 196, 225
Esdras, 57–58, 60–65, 69–75, 77, 79, 81,
83, 91, 131, 137–138, 141, 148, 152,
154–158, 160, 165–166, 179–180,
191–192, 195–196, 209
Eskander, Negus (1471–1494),
126–127
Eskimos, 6
Esther,68–69, 91, 103
Estonians, 6, 192–193
Ethiopia, 81, 85–88, 91–95, 97–102,
105–108, 114, 140, 180, 195, 199,
203, 205–206, 211, 214
as “edge of the earth” 68–73
as land of Prester John, 119–129
see alsoEthiopian Jews
Ethiopian Jews, 119–122, 219–224
ethnography, 4, 6, 12, 22, 25, 98,
158–159, 166, 181–182, 184–185, 187,
189, 194, 201
Euphrates, 58, 60, 62–64, 70, 77–79, 99,
104, 156, 165, 186, 202, 209

exile, 1, 16–18

Babylonian, 7, 15–18, 47, 52–53, 59, 67,

70, 72, 92, 96

and Return, 4, 18, 47–48, 72, 75

Roman, 18, 59–61, 70

as a theological category, 58

exile of the ten tribes, 3, 4, 7, 16, 18–19, 21,

22, 24, 27, 32, 43, 48–55, 56–59, 64

concealed, 71, 75–76, 78–79, 131, 157,

189

deportation and, 7, 35, 38

hidden, 27, 53–54, 111, 131, 136, 138, 161,

164, 174, 201–202, 208, 209, 218

invisible and inaudible, 7, 52–53, 71,

75–77, 131, 202

and Jewish exile, 91, 96–99

in Midrash 76–77

in the Talmud, 72–76

see alsodiaspora

Ezekiel,16, 32, 42, 52, 76, 175, 204,

208–209

Ezra,17, 35, 47, 52, 57, 60, 66–72, 118.

See alsoEsdras

Faitlovitch, Yaacov Jacques (1881–1955),

219–220

fantasy, 11–14, 23, 90, 95, 107–108, 145,

149, 212

Farissol, Rabbi Abraham, 129–133, 144,

178, 180–181, 201, 206, 208

Finns and Finland, 6, 192–193

Fletcher, Giles the Elder (c. 1548–1611),

189–190

Gad (tribe), 1, 76, 87, 94, 95, 106

Galindo, Juan de Abreu de (b. 1535?),

157–160, 186

Gaon, Rabbi Sa‘adya (Sa‘id al-Fayyumi,

c. 882–942), 89–90

Gaon, Rabbi Zemah (d. 895), 95–96,

98–99, 108, 132, 224

Gaon of Vilna.SeeVilna Gaon

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