Eldad S Travels A Journey From The Lost Tribes To The Present

Author : Micha J Perry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429769573

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Eldad’s Travels: A Journey from the Lost Tribes to the Present by Micha J Perry Pdf

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 hosts. This enigmatic traveler not only baffled and riveted the local Jewish community but has continued to grip audiences and influence lives into the present era. This book takes stock of the long journey that both Eldad and his writings have made through Jewish and Christian imaginations from the moment he stepped foot in North Africa to the turn of the new millennium. Each of its chapters assays a major leg of this voyage, offering an in-depth look at the original source material and shedding light on the origins and later reception of this elusive character.

Author : Ahmed M. A. Sheir
Publisher : Trivent Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9786156405296

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The Prester John Legend between East and West During the Crusades by Ahmed M. A. Sheir Pdf

This book considers the history of the Prester John legend and its impact on the Crusades, investigating its entangled mythical history between East and West during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The present study thus responds to the still pressing need for a comprehensive historical investigation of the twelfth and thirteenth crusading history of the legend and its impact on the Muslim-Crusader encounters, examining various Latin, Arabic, Syriac, and Coptic accounts. It further reflects on new eastern aspects of the legend, presenting a new Arab scholarly view. This book first charts a pre-history of the legend in the late ancient Christian prophecy of the Last Emperor down to the emergence of the legend in the mid-twelfth century. Second, the work presents a historical discussion of the legend and its association with actual occurrences in the Far East and the Levant, analysing the legend history under the crusading crisis and the imperial papal schism in Europe. Meanwhile, the work considers the vague Prester John Letter addressed to Manuel I Komnenus, Byzantine Emperor, and its elaborate conception of a mythical eastern kingdom, revealing imaginative parallels on the wondrous East and legendary Eastern Christian kings in Arabic Muslim and Christian accounts of the Muslim geographer and cartographer al-Idrisi, the Coptic Abu al-Makarim and the Syriac Ibn al-'Ibri (Bar Hebraeus), among others. Moreover, the book examines how the legend impacted war and peace processes between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders during the Fifth Crusade against Egypt (1217-1221), revealing how it was mingled with Arabic and Eastern Christian prophecies at the time. The study concludes by investigating the perception of Prester John by the papal and European envoys to the Mongols in the thirteenth century, revealing how the legend was instrumentalised (and even weaponised) to establish a Latin-Mongol crusade through a parallel exploration of relevant Latin, Arabic and Syriac sources.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004506626

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Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 1, 2022 by Anonim Pdf

The Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles that seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines of philosophy, theology, religion, cultural history, and literature and to showcase their multifarious junctures within the framework of Jewish studies. Contributions to the Review place special thematic emphasis on scepticism within Jewish thought and its links to other religious traditions and secular worldviews. The Review is interested in the tension at the heart of matters of reason and faith, rationalism and mysticism, theory and practice, narrativity and normativity, doubt and dogma. This volume features contributions by Reimund Leicht, Gitit Holzman, Jonathan Garb, Anna Lissa, Gianni Paganini, Adi Louria Hayon, Mark Marion Gondelman, and Jürgen Sarnowsky. This volume features contributions by Jeremy Phillip Brown, Libera Pisano, Jeffrey G. Amshalem, Maria Vittoria Comacchi, Jonatan Meir, Rebecca Kneller-Rowe, Isaac Slater, Michela Torbidoni, Guido Bartolucci, and Tamir Karkason.

Author : Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199324538

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The Ten Lost Tribes by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite Pdf

In The Ten Lost Tribes, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite shows for the first time the extent to which the search for the lost tribes of Israel became, over two millennia, an engine for global exploration and a key mechanism for understanding the world.

Author : Ronald H. Fritze
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789145403

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Hope and Fear by Ronald H. Fritze Pdf

A myth-busting journey through the twilight world of fringe ideas and alternative facts. Is a secret and corrupt Illuminati conspiring to control world affairs and bring about a New World Order? Was Donald Trump a victim of massive voter fraud? Is Elizabeth II a shapeshifting reptilian alien? Who is doing all this plotting? In Hope and Fear, Ronald H. Fritze explores the fringe ideas and conspiracy theories people have turned to in order to make sense of the world around them, from myths about the Knights Templar and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, to Nazis and the occult, the Protocols of Zion and UFOs. As Fritze reveals, when conspiracy theories, myths, and pseudo-history dominate a society’s thinking, facts, reality, and truth fall by the wayside.

Author : Martin Jacobs
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812290011

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Reorienting the East by Martin Jacobs Pdf

Reorienting the East explores the Islamic world as it was encountered, envisioned, and elaborated by Jewish travelers from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. The first comprehensive investigation of Jewish travel writing from this era, this study engages with questions raised by postcolonial studies and contributes to the debate over the nature and history of Orientalism as defined by Edward Said. Examining two dozen Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic travel accounts from the mid-twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries, Martin Jacobs asks whether Jewish travelers shared Western perceptions of the Islamic world with their Christian counterparts. Most Jews who detailed their journeys during this period hailed from Christian lands and many sailed to the Eastern Mediterranean aboard Christian-owned vessels. Yet Jacobs finds that their descriptions of the Near East subvert or reorient a decidedly Christian vision of the region. The accounts from the crusader era, in particular, are often critical of the Christian church and present glowing portraits of Muslim-Jewish relations. By contrast, some of the later travelers discussed in the book express condescending attitudes toward Islam, Muslims, and Near Eastern Jews. Placing shifting perspectives on the Muslim world in their historical, social, and literary contexts, Jacobs interprets these texts as mirrors of changing Jewish self-perceptions. As he argues, the travel accounts echo the various ways in which premodern Jews negotiated their mingled identities, which were neither exclusively Western nor entirely Eastern.

Author : Caryl Phillips
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781595586902

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Color Me English by Caryl Phillips Pdf

The bestselling author Caryl Phillips has for years written about and explored the experience of migration through his spellbinding and award-winning novels, plays, and essays. In this fascinating collection he looks at the notion of belonging prior to and following 9/11, beginning with a reflection on his own experience as one of the only black boys in his school in the UK alongside his first interaction with a British Muslim boy who joined the school. Phillips turns to his years of living and teaching in the United States—including a riveting chronicle of the day the two towers fell—as well as historical and literary reflections with James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and other writers who grappled with notions of migration and belonging in their own day.

Author : M. Eliav-Feldon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137291370

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Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of Identity by M. Eliav-Feldon Pdf

Early Modern Europe was teeming with impostors. Identity theft was only one form of misrepresentation: royal pretenders, envoys from imaginary lands, religious dissimulators, cross-dressers, false Gypsies - all these caused deep anxiety, leading authorities to invent increasingly sophisticated means for unmasking deception.

Author : Andrew Tobolowsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316514948

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The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel by Andrew Tobolowsky Pdf

This book tells the fascinating, millennia-long story of peoples around the world who have claimed an Israelite identity and history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Literature
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172131108640

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The Literary Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : MINN:31951001900049C

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Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hugh Chrisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2022 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : PSU:000019417318

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica by Hugh Chrisholm Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU06904904

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The Encyclopædia Britannica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CCB Publishing
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781771431354

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The Messianic Aleph Tav Scriptures Modern-Hebrew Large Print Edition Study Bible by Anonim Pdf

The Messianic Aleph Tav Scriptures (MATS) is a study bible which focuses on the study of the Aleph Tav character symbol used throughout the old testament (Tanakh) by both Moses and the Prophets and is the most exhaustive and unique rendition of its kind in the world. Over 5 years in the making, this English rendition reveals every place the Hebrew Aleph Tav symbol was used as a "free standing" character symbol believed to express the "strength of the covenant" in its original meaning. The Aleph Tav was believed also to be the "mark" of the "divine hand" for thousands of years by such famous rabbis as Nahum of Gimzo, Akiva, and R. S. Hirsch as well as the Apostle John. Also revealed in MATS is the use of the Aleph Tav as it is incorporated into the creation of hundreds of Hebrew words used thousands of times throughout the Tanakh and how the "mark" incorporates Y'shua haMashiach (Jesus the messiah), as well as all mankind and creation, which substantiates and expresses its divinity, thus taking our understanding of the scriptures to a whole new level. MATS comes in your choice of either Paleo or Modern Hebrew editions in a trim size of the regular 6"x9" or the large print edition 8.5"x11".

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CCB Publishing
Page : 933 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781771433143

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The Complete Messianic Aleph Tav Scriptures Modern-Hebrew Large Print Edition Study Bible (Updated 2nd Edition) by Anonim Pdf

The Complete Messianic Aleph Tav Scriptures (C-MATS) is a study bible which focuses on the study of the Aleph/Tav Character Symbol used throughout the old testament (Tanakh) by both Moses and the Prophets and is the most exhaustive and unique rendition of its kind in the world. Over 5 years in the making, this English rendition reveals every place the Hebrew Aleph Tav symbol was used as a "free standing" character symbol believed to express the "strength of the covenant" in its original meaning. The Aleph/Tav was also believed to be the "mark" of the "divine hand" for thousands of years by such famous rabbis as Nahum of Gimzo, Akiva, and R. S. Hirsch as well as the Apostle John who claimed in the book of Revelation that the symbol also incorporated Y'shua haMashiach (Jesus the Messiah) because of His divinity. Also revealed in C-MATS is the use of the Aleph/Tav as it is incorporated into the creation of hundreds of Hebrew words used thousands of times, thus taking our understanding of the scriptures to a whole new level. C-MATS comes in your choice of either Paleo or Modern Hebrew, Large Print 8.5x11 editions and include the New Testament.