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

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1 1 The Ten Lst Tribes: A Wrld Histry Zvi Ben-Dr Benite N O T E : Sme f the terms I have listed are nt defined in the bk. The authr expects the reader t knw what they mean. S yu will need t lk them up in a dictinary r encyclpedia. Intrductin 1. Accrding t Benite, why d peple search fr the Ten Lst Tribes? 2. What are the three meanings f the wrd wrld and why des Benite call his bk a wrld histry? 3. What des Benite mean when he says that his bk is paradxically, a histry f a nnexistent place? 4. What are the three ryal huses that claim t be descendents f the Ten Lst Tribes? 5. Wh are sme f the grups that claim t be descendents f the Ten Lst Tribes? 6. Hw has the lack f evidence abut the Ten Lst Tribes affected theries abut the Ten Lst Tribes? 7. Hw have the Ten Lst Tribes been treated in ppular fictin? 8. What gives the stry f the Ten Lst Tribes its persistence? 9. Hw des Benite relate the cncept f lss t the stry f the Ten Lst Tribes? 10. What des Benite mean by gegraphical thelgy? 11. In what tw respects des lss serve as a useful vehicle fr wrld histrical research? 12. Hw des the search fr the Lst Tribes help t define the wrld? Terms (definitin and significance): Tps Ur-text

2 2 Labrs f lss Fabulus gegraphy Gesphy Leitmtif Oikumene Chapter One: Assyrian Tributes 1. The Assyrians emplyed a plicy f frced deprtatin f cnquered peples. Hw did frced deprtatins affect the ppulatin f ancient Israel? Why did the Assyrians emply the plicy f deprtatin? Hw did the biblical accunts and the Assyrian accunts describe the deprtatins? Hw did the deprtatin f the Ten Tribes f Israel cmpare with the deprtatin f ther cnquered peples? 2. Hw the Assyrians cnceive f the gegraphy f the wrld in terms f their empire? What was the prpaganda f Assyrian imperialism and what was the reality f Assyrian imperialism? Hw did the Assyrian view f the wrld impact Biblical writers like Isaiah and hw did it affect the stry f the Ten Lst Tribes? 3. What was the histry f the suthern kingdm f Judah cmpared t that f the kingdm f Israel? Hw did the writers f Judah view their histry and that f Israel? Hw did their view f histry alter the stry f the Ten Lst Tribes int a narrative f divine punishment? 4. Cmpare the diaspras f Israel and f Judah. Hw did the Biblical prphets deal with the tw diaspras in their writings? Terms (definitin and significance): Samaria Sargn II Jsiah diaspra

3 3 Chapter Tw: An Enclsed Natin in Arzareth and Sambatyn 1. Hw d the bk f the Apcrypha and the writings f Flavius Jsephus treat the stry f the Ten Lst Tribes? 2. Hw did the intrductin f the migratin t Arzareth change the nature f the Ten Lst Tribes? 3. What is the rle f Ezra in the Biblical narrative f the Babylnian Captivity and the Return? Hw did that impact the narrative f the Ten Lst Tribes? 4. Hw did rabbis f the era f Imperial Rme describe and interpret the exile f the Ten Lst Tribes and cntrast it t the exiles f the Jews? 5. What rle did the Sambatyn play in the narrative f the Ten Lst Tribes? 6. Hw are the Ten Lst Tribes assciated with Jewish Messiahism? Terms (definitin and significance): Flavius Jsephus Enclsed natin Rechabites Chapter Three: Tricksters and Travels 1. What type f rumrs abut the Ten Lst Tribes circulated in the Jewish cmmunity f Tunisia during late antiquity? 2. In what way was Eldad Ha-Dani a trickster? Wh was he really and hw did his backgrund affect the stries he tld the Jews f Tunisia? 3. Hw did the Jews f Tunisia react t the stries f Eldad Ha-Dani? What was Eldad s greatest cntributin t the histry f the Ten Lst Tribes? 4. What is the stry f Prester Jhn and hw is it related t the Ten Lst Tribes? What was Benjamin f Tudela s cntributin t the histry f the Ten Lst Tribes? 5. Hw did the Mngls fit int the histry f the Ten Lst Tribes, particularly in the wrk f Jhn f Mandeville and Rabbi Abraham Abulafia?

4 4 Terms (definitin and significance): Benjamin f Tudela Eldad Ha-Dani authentic lies natural religius develpment Jhn f Mandeville Rabbi Abraham Abulafia Chapter Fur: A Mighty Multitude f Israelites 1. Hw did pgrms and mass cnversins f Jews in Spain and Prtugal influence the attitudes f Jews in Western Eurpe tward the stry f the Ten Lst Tribes? 2. What develpments ccurred in Yemen and Ethipia that frmed the cntext and backgrund f David Reuveni s visit t Rme? 3. What was David Reuveni s plan fr a war against Islam and hw was it cnnected t Prtuguese explratins in Africa and the Indian Ocean? 4. Describe the career f Pedr de Cvilhan. 5. Hw did the csmgraphy f Rabbi Abraham Farissl attempt t fit the Ten Lst Tribes int the gegraphical discveries f the fifteenth and sixteenth-century Eurpeans? Terms (definitin and significance): Givanni de Carignan Falashas Pedr de Cvilhan Matheus Rabbi Abraham Farissl

5 5 Chapter Five: Cncrdia Mundi 1. Wh was Antni Mntezins and what was his stry? 2. Hw did Clumbus use Biblical prphecy t frm his wrldview and hw did it relate t the Jewish Indian Thery? What were the tw critical questins assciated with the Jewish Indian Thery? 3. What is meant by the nrdificatin f the Ten Lst Tribes and was its significance? 4. What is the cncept f restitutin and what rle did Jhn Calvin play in frmulating it? 5. Hw did Abraham Ortelius and Guillame Pstel cntribute t the develpment f the Ten Lst Tribes narrative? 6. What rle did the Canary Islands and their inhabitants play in the Jewish Indian Thery? 7. What were the varius Spanish ideas abut the rigins f the American Indians and the Ten Lst Tribes in America? Terms (definitin and significance): Manasseh Ben-Israel Ophir Sebastian Munster Scythians Chapter Six: Hpes f Israel 1. Hw was the stry f the Ten Lst Tribes used in plitical debates in England and the United States during the seventeenth century thrugh the nineteenth century? 2. Describe the influence f Manasseh Ben-Israel s ideas abut the Ten Lst Tribes n English thelgical debates and plitics. 3. Hw did Manasseh Ben-Israel s depictin f the Ten Tribes as glbal wanderers affect where he lcated the tribes? 4. Hw des Mrmnism use the cncept f the Ten Lst Tribes in its thelgy? 5. Describe the rigins and evlutin f Angl-Israelism.

6 6 Terms (definitin and significance): Richard Brthers Olaf Rudbeck, Jr. Barbara Anne Simn Lrd Edward Kingsbrugh Cnclusin 1. Hw and why did the search fr the Ten Lst Tribes change frm lcating them t identifying them during an age f Glbal Empire? 2. What des the authr mean when he talks abut the Ten Lst Tribes becming a Mdern Gegraphical Mystery? 3. Hw did rmantic travel and adventure literature f the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries deal with the Lst Tribes? 4. Describe the prcess by which the search fr the Ten Lst Tribes was transfrmed frm a Christian quest back t being a Jewish quest. 5. Hw has the creatin f the state f Israel changed the stry f the Ten Lst Tribes? 6. Describe hw the stry f the Ten Lst Tribes generates a sense f lss but als stimulates the activity f creatin? Terms (definitin and significance): Samuel Purchas Isaac Lamprnti Jseph Wlff Aziel Haga Bxer Rebellin This dcument is taken frm the webpage June 12, 2011