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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
ISBN: | 9780195307337 019530733X |
OCLC Number: | 587781319 |
Description: | ix, 302 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten |
Contents: | Introduction: Ten lost tribes and their places -- Assyrian tributes -- An enclosed nation in Arzareth and Sambatyon --Tricksters and travels -- "A mighty multitude of Israelites" -- Concordia mundi -- Hopes of Israel -- Conclusion: To find the ten lost tribes. |
Responsibility: | Zvi Ben-Dor Benite. |
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The story of the lost tribes of Israel has been told before, but never placed so successfully within the context of global history. Zvi Ben-Dor Benite's exceptional scholarly range, combined with his exquisite sensitivity to the relationship between presence and absence, promise and loss, will appeal to anyone fascinated with the ways myth-history and myth-geography function in the real time and real space of world events. * John Gillis, Professor Emeritus of History, Rutgers University * Readers will marvel at how belief in the lost tribes benefits the ambitions of British imperialists and at how it has guided modern Israeli leaders in shaping their country's repatriation policies. Scholarship of exceptional breadth, certain to attract a diverse readership. * Booklist * Writing a 'world history' on this scale demands enviable linguistic and interdisciplinary skills, which Zvi Ben-Dor Benite has in abundance. ...The Ten Lost Tribes is an exhilarating venture in intellectual history ...A readable and enjoyable book. * Books & Culture * This book constitutes a sophisticated, often riveting meditation on those who have dreamed about, sought after, investigated, and longed for the ten Israelite tribes deported (according to the biblical account) by the Assyrians in the eighth century B.C.E. to a remote location, after which they disappeared from human knowledge. More than a history of fantasy, however, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite's survey brings together the variegated odalities-religious, political,scientific, and literary-in which such fixations have played themselves out. * American Historical Review * An interesting and at times even a fascinating read into the efforts of many people over many centuries to rediscover, reclaim, and even restore lost Israel. * BYU Studies Quarterly * Read more...

