The legendary story of the ten lost tribes of Israel has resonated
among both Jews and Christians down through the centuries: the
compelling idea that some core group of humanity was "lost" and
exiled to a secret place, perhaps someday to return triumphant. In
this fascinating book, 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. As the book reveals, the
quest for the missing tribes and the fervent belief that their
restitution marked a necessary step toward global redemption have
been threaded through countless historical moments-from the
formation of the first "world" empires to the age of discovery, and
from the spread of European imperialism to the rise of modern-day
evangelical apocalypticism. Drawing on a wealth of sources and
presenting a vast array of historical players-explorers,
politicians, scientists, geographers, and theologians-the author
traces the myth from its biblical formation up through the present
day. We see how the lost tribes, long thought to lurk at the
world's "edges," became a means for expanding those edges: as new
oceans, islands, or continents were discovered, the ten tribes were
used as an interpretive device that made the unknown seem known and
the new, old. Thus, virtually every spot on earth, whether
Argentina or Zululand, the American Southwest or Southeast Asia,
has at some point been claimed as the true home of the missing
peoples. More than a historical survey of an enduring myth, The Ten
Lost Tribes offers a unique prism through which to view the many
facets of encounters between cultures, the processes of
colonization, and the growth of geographical knowledge.
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