Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
The Ten Lost Tribes, Part 2: How Did the Ten Tribes Become Lost?
Summary
This lecture will focus on the Second Temple period after Cyrus the Great, who allows the returns of the captives from Babylon. But do the captives from Assyria come back? Second Temple Judaism begins to wonder where they are and this is reflected in the “apocryphal” literature of the books of Tobit, Esdras, and the Second Book of Baruch.
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).