Zvi ben dor benite biography of albert

ISBN Pages: Size: 6 in. Date Published: March 22, Imprint: Brandeis University Press. History Jewish Studies. About the Author. Zvi Ben-Dor Benite. Read More. Ben-Ami, Shlomo —. Ben-Ami ShierenJacob. Ben-Ami DanknerOved. Ben-Abraham, Zvi. Ben Zvi, Rachel Yanait — Ben Zoma, Simeon. Ben-Dor, Immanuel. Ben-Eliezer, Binyamin. Ben-Ezer, Ehud Ben-Gavriel, Moshe Ya'akov.

Ben-Gurion GruenDavid. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Ben-Haim FrankenburgerPaul. Ben-Haim real name, FrankenburgerPaul. Ben-Haim, Marylise — Ben-Haim, Yakov —. During his later life in England, he developed into the leading geographer in nineteenth-century Britain. He was undeniably a major contributor to the development of modern geography and its related fields, including oceanography.

He was also passionate about classical studies, but was never formally educated in the classics. His background shows that without the formative years in Bengal, he would not reach the same level of achievement that he eventually did during his time in England. Remember, he did not know Greek or Latin. That suggests to me that he was not of the English upper classes.

But Bengal made him a geographer, and a leading one. For him, empire was opportunity. And his involvement with Herodotus likely serves as a connection to the education he was lacking, while also providing insight into his own ideas about modern geography—the discipline he helped to develop. I was certainly thrilled to come across a full chapter on the Ten Tribes in the book.

I also did not understand what he wanted to do with the Tribes. This was the reason he was only mentioned in passing in the book back then. That raises the question of why I suddenly returned to Rennell, which I answer below. Some of this impressive archival source-tracking you do is forensic, pinning down what Rennell could have known and how. ZBDB: Tough question!

Like I felt when I read it first. I posit that his set of strategies was purposeful.

Zvi ben dor benite biography of albert

I mention that the discourse about Jews and trade in Europe in his time was quite intense. But it was largely rooted in unfounded prejudice and baseless foolishness. In my opinion, Rennell sought to provoke his readers to reflect on Jews and commerce with no preconceived opinions. He constructed his case from the ground up, composed of what he deemed to be factual history, layer after layer.

Now let me tell you why. This is the man that mapped the currents deep in the ocean, explored the relationship between river and land in Bengal, and put together the first real map of India. That experience must have impacted his writing. The result is the stratigraphy of this chapter. AI: In reading Rennell through and with his sources, you engage in kinds of temporal source-jumps that seem to mirror or complement those of Rennell.

For instance: you note that Rennell pursued a close reading of the Book of Kings so as to establish the political reasons the Assyrian empire exiled the Israelites in the eighth century BCE, with the aim of making secular sense of the event, stripped of its theological implications. Rennell concludes that the Assyrians, in a calculated way, exiled only some of the Israelites, an elite subsection with desirable skills for the empire.

Here is a remarkable moment of layering, of historical self-awareness. Can you elaborate more on why or how current historical knowledge can, as a heuristic, illuminate the thought of figures who lacked that knowledge? ZBDB: You allude to something that was highlighted more prominently in a prior version of this article that I had to cut.