1st Edition
Eldad’s Travels: A Journey from the Lost Tribes to the Present
By Micha Perry
Copyright 2019
120 Pages
by
Routledge
118 Pages
by
Routledge
118 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the latter years of the ninth century, a mysterious figure arrived in the North African Jewish community of Kairouan. The visitor, Eldad of the tribe of Dan, claimed to have arrived from the kingdom of the Israelite tribes whose whereabouts had been lost for over a millennium and a half. Communicating solely in Hebrew, the sojourner’s vocabulary contained many words that were unfamiliar to his... Read more
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Query and Response
2. Truth and False
3. Myth and Reality
4. Rabbinites and Karaites
5. Babylon and Israel
6. Men and Women
7. Jews and Christians
8. Black and White
Conclusion
Index
Biography
Micha J. Perry is a historian of medieval history at the department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa.
