The Jews Of Africa - Especially In The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries (1920) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II Abyssinia]And, Ethiopia The Advent of the Jews?Maqueda, Queen of Sheba?The IFirst Menelik?The Gideons and Judiths of Samen?The Conquest of Abyssinia by Judith?The Fall of the Kingdom of Samen. NO part of the long and chequered career of the Jewish nation is more shrouded in mystery, and more romantic in legend, than the story of the advent and establishment of the Israelites in the mystic land known in mediaeval times as the territory of Prester John. It is a difficult task to compile from legend, tradition, and such scanty documents as exist the conjectured history of the Falashas, those dark-visaged Hebrews, whose ancestors were distributed throughout the great and distant regions which were nominally or actually under the authority of the rulers of Abyssinia and Ethiopia. As far, however, as can be surmised from such sources as are available, an independent Jewish Kingdom long existed within the confines of what was known as the Ethiopian Empire. Its territory?which varied in extent from time to time?was considerably greaterthan that embraced by the ancient kingdoms of Judah and Israel, and its existence, in all probability, was of a longer duration. The great mystery, which shrouded the greater part of Africa down to times still but little distant, would account for the fact that so little was known of this Jewish Kingdom, if, indeed, a kingdom actually existed, and, as a matter of fact, very little that is absolutely authentic, is known about it to-day even by those few people who have made a very close study of the history of the ancient Empire of Ethiopia and of the Kingdom of Abyssinia. A well-known authority states,1 that " there were always Jews in Ethiopia from the beginning," and this statement may be conjecturally justified by the proximity o...

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Imprint:	Kessinger Publishing Co
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Sidney Mendelssohn
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	216
ISBN-13:	978-1-120-89235-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	1-120-89235-X
Barcode:	9781120892355

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