Oikoumene,3, 28, 32, 64–65, 99
Assyrian, 38–44
early modern, 130
Islamic, 108
Roman, 71–72, 89, 206
and world history, 28–29, 230n 82
Ophir, 22, 139, 144, 162
Ortelius, Abraham (1527–1598), 148–153,
155–156, 164–166, 189, 191–192,
200, 202, 205
in Ben-Israel, 178, 180
and Postel, 153–155
Ottomans, 101, 123, 128, 173, 189
Paine, Thomas, 19
Palestine, 5, 29, 32, 34, 35, 52, 58, 65, 66,
98, 110, 113, 118–119, 122–123, 170,
188, 190, 194–195, 205, 219,
222–223.See alsoHoly Land
Palestinians, 224
Palmerston, Lord (1784–1865), 4
Paul III, Pope (1468–1549), 142
Penn, William (1644–1718), 142
Persia, 66, 68, 72, 85, 100, 104–105,
107, 116, 149, 154, 191–192, 195,
213
Persian Empire, 47, 65, 66–69, 71, 73,
87, 91–92
Persian Mythology, 73
Peru, 135, 136, 138–139, 162, 165, 179,
224
Peyton, Edward (1587–1657), 170
Philip II (1527–1588), 164
Phoenicians, 39, 141, 163
Pinkerton, John (1758–1826), 211
Pizarro, Francisco (1471–1541), 139
Pliny the Elder (23–79), 69, 79–80, 148,
162, 166, 191
Pogroms, 115–117, 159, 173, 222
Poole, William H., 193
Portugal, 5, 13, 29, 114, 115, 117, 123, 136,
173, 174, 176
and imperial expansion 124–129
Postel, Guillaume (1510–1581), 153–155,
166, 178, 189, 191, 192, 202, 209
Pratt, Orson (1811–1881), 185–186
Prester John, 22, 89, 100–105, 108–115,
119–122, 125–129, 146, 149, 162
prophecy, 6, 8–10, 16–17, 23–24, 42–45,
53, 75, 77, 83, 99, 137, 186, 208,
223
and geography, 23–24, 140–141, 157,
159, 175–176, 178–182
and history, 6–7
Ptolemy (90–168), 81, 90, 143, 191
Purchas, Samuel (c. 1575–1626),
205–206
Puritanism, 174–175
purity, ten tribes and, 14, 62, 64, 196,
201al-Qayrawan (Jewish community of ),
86–88, 91–92, 94–98, 124, 159, 224
Qubilai Khan (1215–1294), 114
Quito (Ecuador), 136
Qur’an, 4, 94, 184race, 5, 17, 81, 195, 220
as Anglo-Saxon race, 193–195
ten tribes as, 5, 142, 175, 187–188
Radbaz (1479–1573), 99
Raleigh, Walter (1552–1618), 205
Ramaswamy, Sumathi, 21, 23, 28, 218
Ramusio, Giambatista (1485–1557),
114–115
Rechabites, 78–79, 81
Recife, 135–136
Red Sea, 67, 70, 93, 114, 123–126, 128,
154–155
Rehoboam (king of Judah), 9, 170–171
Rennell, James (1742–1830), 206–207
Reuben (tribe), 1, 76, 87, 106, 113, 114,
212
Reuveni, David, 113–115, 122–125,
127–129, 131, 137, 173, 219, 220