The Lost Ten Tribes in Afriki.
Contents:
1. The Jewish Encyclopedia and the Lost Ten Tribes in Africa!
2. What Does "Africa" Mean? Where is it?
3. The Ancient Greeks in India. LTTs in the West.
4. Geographical Indications from the Bible.
5. Selected Verses: Ends of the Earth
Zarephath, meaning France, the North, and Britain.
Commentators on Obadiah. Islands. Western Location.
North and West (Northwest) and the Land of Sinim (Australasia).
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1. The Jewish Encyclopedia and the Lost Ten Tribes in Africa!
Someone named "@mbrown6837" commented on a video of ours concerning the Lost Ten Tribes being among western peoples.
He quoted from the:
"JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA" - AFRICA
Please comment on the following information that the TEN TRIBES were driven into AFRICA;
**Africa, in the broader sense, is clearly indicated where mention is made of the Ten Tribes having been driven into exile by the Assyrians
and having journeyed into Africa** (Mek., Bo, 17; Tosef., Shab. vii. 25; Deut. R. v. 14; and especially Sanh. 94a).
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2. What Does "Africa" Mean? Where is it?
The "Jewish Encyclopedia" can be useful but it is not always reliable. It is considered less "Kosher" than the more-up-to-date Encyclopedia Judaica.
The meaning of the term "Africa" (or "Afriki") in Talmudic Literature is varied.
It often depends on the context.
It can mean an area in North Africa (Libya) near Carthage, a region of Phyrgia in Central Turkey, a place in Media in West Iran, an area of the Caucasus (Iberia-Georgia), elsewhere in Europe.
Historically elements from the Lost Ten Tribes could have been in all those regions before moving elsewhere.
See our article:
Afriki. Tracing the Lost Ten Tribes
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/rabbi/afriki.html
The Talmudic terms "Afriki" and "Africa" were often interchangeable.
The term "Africa" was probably borrowed by the Jews from Greek. The Greeks may also have applied the appellation in different ways.
One of these was by applying it to north Africa and then to areas of Western Europe.
We know this from Indian sources.
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3. The Ancient Greeks in India. LTTs in the West.
Alexander of Macedonia was to wage wars of conquest and established a foothold in northwest India in ca. 320 BCE. Some scholars suggest that a Greek presence had existed even before then.
At all events Macedonian-Greek principalities remained on the borders with India and in Northwest India itself for quite a while. They influenced Indian culture. India was divided into different principalities but in general had its scholars and philosophers who were spoken of, and admired, by the Ancient Greeks. The sentiment was reciprocated. Greek influences penetrated Hindu scholastic traditions.
Francis Wilford and his band of Indian savants in the 1780s set out to retrieve references to the West in Indian traditions. These were often based on Greek sources that have since been lost elsewhere. The term "Africa" probably reached the Jews via the Greeks. The exact meaning of the term as it was originally tended may have been preserved in Indian sources derived from Greek ones.
Francis Wilford "Asiatic Researches," 1788, got together a whole assembly of Indian experts on the ancient scripts and analyzed Greek words and terminology that had entered Indian tradition.
One of the terms they came across was "Afrca" and they found that:
#.. the appellation of Africa was even extended to the Western parts of Europe, all along the shores of the Atlantic. .."
This usage had once existed among the Ancient Greeks, been forgotten in the west, but preserved in Indian traditions.
See:
Ancient Greece - Ancient India relations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece%E2%80%93Ancient_India_relations
Between about 200 BC and the very beginning of the first millennium AD, The Indo-Greek Kingdom covered an area encompassing modern-day Pakistan, parts of Afghanistan and of north-west India.
Greek astronomical texts were translated ... by different Indian Scholars. Similar to how most books of philosophy, mathematics in Sanskrit Literature made its way into Greece by trade.
It is worth noting that Ireland and Britain were known as the "Blessed Isles", or "Isles of the Blessed," to the Ancient Greeks and Jews of 2nd Temple Times. The Lost Ten Tribes were said to be there.
Compare this to Indo-Greek sources quoted by Wilford:
"In Europe they called the West Hesperus, and the country toward the West Hesperia. That country is considered by the Paurdtiics, as the abode of the gods, or Suralayam, an appellation well known to the learned, and applied by them, in conformity with the Puranas, to the Westernmost part of Europe, or the British Isles."
Suralayam may be a form of the name "Yisrael."
See:
Aed and the Lost Tribes in Britain
The Lost Ten Tribes in Celtic and Arabic Lore
https://www.britam.org/aed.html
We see of the varied possible meanings of "Africa" the Western parts of Europe are included and fit the bill as well as, or better than, any other.
In such cases we leave the possibility open and compare it with other evidence pointing in a similar direction.
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4. Geographical Indications from the Bible.
Israel - Center of the World
Ends of the Earth and Joseph
Ends of the Earth and Britain
Ends of the Earth and the Lost Ten Tribes
Ends of the Earth and Northern Europe
Ends of the Earth and the US Eagle
Ends of the Earth and the Most Exalted Places on Earth
In Islands, and Peninsulas of the Earth
Isles of the Sea
Fires in the Isles
Seafarers
Rulers of the Waves
In Many Waters
Tarshish and the Atlantic Ocean
Centered to the West of the Land of Israel
To the North and West of the Land of Israel
Centered to the North
Zebulon on the Shores of the Sea in Holland
"Zerefat" meaning Britain, France, and the North
"Land of Sinim" meaning Australia and New Zealand
Promises to Abraham included becoming a great and mighty nation. These were to involve the Lost Ten Tribes. The exiled Israelites from the Ten Tribes were to become one of the most numerous groups of people on earth (Genesis 15:5, 22:17, 24:60, 32:12, Numbers 23:10, Deuteronomy 1:11, Isaiah 10:22, 24:16, 26:15, Hosea 1:10); to be the most powerful (Genesis 27:9, Numbers 24:7, Michah 5:7-9), to be the richest, to possess the most mineral and agricultural resources (Genesis 27:28, 49:25, Deuteronomy 33:13-16, Hosea 2:8), to live in the best places (Isaiah 41:8-9), to be in islands (Isaiah 42:4, 49:1-6 Jeremiah 31:9-10), peninsulas (Jeremiah 31:8), and at continental extremities (Deuteronomy 33:13, Isaiah 24:16, 26:15, 41:8-9, 49:6), to be sea-farers (Isaiah 42:6). They were to be found especially to the north and west of the Land of Israel, to gain control over strategic points regarding their potential adversaries (Genesis 22:16-17, 24:60), to be like a lion, and unicorn (Numbers 24:8-9), and bald-headed eagle (Micah 1:16). They were also to be largely unaware of their Israelite identity and to practice a non--Jewish religion (Hosea 2:8, 2:13, 2:16 11:12). Judah in the End Times would not know who they were (Isaiah 49:21). Scripture gives numerous other identifying characteristics that taken as a whole can only fit THE one group of people that were to be found in Western Europe especially in Britain and its offshoots in North America, etc.
The descendants of the Ten Tribes are to be found among the English-speaking Peoples and those of Western Europe.
To determines where the Lost Ten Trbies really are we need to look at ALL the sources and find solutions that correspond to the highest number of indications, and if possible, to all of them. This is what we do find concerning the British Ilses, offshoots of the British overseas, and Western and notherwestern Europe.
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5. Selected Verses
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/biblical-proof/list122.html#ref2
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Ends of the Earth
Isaiah 41:
8 BUT YOU, ISRAEL, ARE MY SERVANT,
JACOB WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN,
THE DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM MY FRIEND.
9 YOU WHOM I HAVE TAKEN FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH,
AND CALLED FROM ITS FARTHEST REGIONS,
AND SAID TO YOU,
YOU ARE MY SERVANT,
I HAVE CHOSEN YOU AND HAVE NOT CAST YOU AWAY.
Isaiah 43:
6 I WILL SAY TO THE NORTH, GIVE THEM UP!
AND TO THE SOUTH, DO NOT KEEP THEM BACK!
BRING MY SONS FROM AFAR,
AND MY DAUGHTERS FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH.
Jeremiah 31:
8 BEHOLD, I WILL BRING THEM FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY,
AND GATHER THEM FROM THE ENDS [Hebrew: 'Yarcatei' i.e. thighs or coasts] OF THE EARTH.
Isaiah 49:
6 IT IS TOO SMALL A THING THAT YOU SHOULD BE MY SERVANT
TO RAISE UP THE TRIBES OF JACOB,
AND TO RESTORE THE PRESERVED ONES OF ISRAEL;
I WILL ALSO GIVE YOU AS A LIGHT TO THE GENTILES,
THAT YOU SHOULD BE MY SALVATION TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH.
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Zarephath, meaning France, the North, and Britain,
Obadiah 1:
20 AND THE CAPTIVES OF THIS HOST (More Correctly: "Of this First Exile") OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
SHALL POSSESS THE LAND OF THE CANAANITES.
AS FAR AS ZAREPHATH.
Commentators on Obadiah.
AND THIS FIRST EXILE OF THE TEN TRIBES OF ISRAEL [Rashi] WHO DWELL FROM GERMANY [=CANAANITES, Iben Ezra] AND HOLLAND [Jewish sources quoted by Calvin], EVEN UNTO FRANCE [=ZAREPHATH, Rashi, Iben Ezra, Radak, Abarbanel, Daat Sofrim] AND ENGLAND [= ZAREPHATH, Abarbanel] ....
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Islands, Ephraim.
Jeremiah 31:
...FOR I AM A FATHER TO ISRAEL,
AND EPHRAIM IS MY FIRSTBORN.
10 HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD, O NATIONS,
AND DECLARE IT IN THE ISLES AFAR OFF, AND SAY,
HE WHO SCATTERED ISRAEL WILL GATHER HIM,
AND KEEP HIM AS A SHEPHERD DOES HIS FLOCK.
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Western Location:
In Biblical Hebrew the word "yam" connotes both "the west" and "the sea".
Isaiah 24:
14 THEY SHALL LIFT UP THEIR VOICE, THEY SHALL SING;
FOR THE MAJESTY OF THE LORD
THEY SHALL CRY ALOUD FROM THE SEA [i.e. from the west].
15 THEREFORE, IN THE FIRES (LIGHTS) HONOR THE LORD; IN THE ISLANDS OF THE SEA, THE NAME OF THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL.
Hosea 11:
10 THEY SHALL WALK AFTER THE LORD.
HE WILL ROAR LIKE A LION.
WHEN HE ROARS,
THEN HIS SONS SHALL COME TREMBLING FROM THE WEST.
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North and West (Northwest) and the Land of Sinim (Australasia).
Isaiah 49:
12 SURELY THESE SHALL COME FROM AFAR;
LOOK! THOSE FROM THE NORTH AND THE WEST,
AND THESE FROM THE LAND OF SINIM.