The Scroll of Antiochus
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Account of His Travels
And now we shall tell our brethren, the tribes of Jeshurun, of Eldad the Danite, who relates all this, how he went forth in all the countries after being separated from the tribe of Dan and the Lord…
Copper Plates (Kollam)
Six copper plates from Quilon (Kollam) provide the earliest evidence for Jewish life in southwestern India. Written in Tamil, the first five plates record a royal land grant to a Christian merchant…
The Midrash of “These I Shall Mention” (Midrash eleh ezkerah)
Ten times were the Jews sent into exile from Jerusalem, and they were these: four groups exiled by Sennacherib, four by Nebuchadnezzar, one by Titus the wicked, and one by the Emperor Hadrian. The…
Lesser History of the World (Seder ‘olam zuta)
In the eleventh year of the reign of [Jehoiakim], Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylonia, exiled [Jehoiakim], and he died in captivity to fulfill that which was written: He will be buried with the…
You planted a choice vine
This is a song of the glory of Israel and the history of its prophets, with Israel compared to a vine: its tendrils are the prophets, its roots the patriarchs, and its shoots the sages who turn the…
Responsum: On Eldad ha-Dani
This question the men of Kairouan asked of the Gaon Rabbenu Zemach with reference to Eldad the Danite of the tribes in ancient Havilah, in the land of Ethiopia, who had come unto them [after sundry…