Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
The Ten Lost Tribes, Part 1
Summary
The first lecture in a new course on Jewish Exiles and Migrations in World History. We will consider the significance of the Ten Lost Tribes, as well as the Near East in the late eighth century, the expansion of the Assyrian empire, and the collapse of the Kingdom of Israel in 721 BCE and its aftermath–the forced removal and mysterious disappearances of the Ten Tribes.
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite teaches Chinese History, Middle Eastern and Islamic history, and sometimes Jewish history, at NYU. He is author of The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China (Harvard, 2005); The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History (Oxford, 2009); He is co-editor of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Culture, and Politics (Brandeis, 2013); The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept (Columbia University Press, 2017), and Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History, (Hawaii University Press, 2023).