The saga of the Ten Lost Israelite Tribes has One thing is above all argument - this is a The Ten Lost Tribes Challenge is a multinational The Ten Lost Tribes Challenge intends to launch a series
fascinated and captivated generations of researchers, pilgrims,
religious leaders, and believers of many faiths and of many
nationalities. For over 2700 years, ever since the residents of the
Northern Israelite Kingdom were exiled by the King of Assyria, the
story of the Ten Lost Tribes has been shrouded in a mystery of
anecdotal traditions and competing narratives. Based on important
historical, anthropological, and archeological theories, important
research has unearthed the beliefs and spiritual awakenings, and the
fascinating political, ethnic, and religious struggles of the Ten Lost
Tribes.
compelling phenomenon. The story of the Ten Lost Tribes has occupied
and challenged human civilization for nearly 3,000 years, and it
continues to stimulate the imagination and faith of peoples and
cultures throughout the world.
initiative that will provide the public, for whom the mystery of the
Ten Lost Tribes is a source of profound interest, with a thrilling and
unique intellectual experience.
of research and discovery expeditions that will provide authentic
meetings in the field with varying ethnic groups around the world, who
consider themselves - by their own traditions and beliefs, or according
to historical and ethnographic research - to be descendants of the Ten
Lost Tribes.
he integration between unhindered human
encounters and an intensive scientific milieu will enable expedition
members coming from all over the world as members of the Ten Lost Tribes Challenge to be part of an extraordinary and exceptional geographic and anthropological experience.
The expeditions are intended for people who are willing to
travel to far-flung, remote and forsaken areas at the “ends of the
earth,” sometimes under difficult field conditions, in order to create
a moving and direct dialogue with those groups who are part of the
mysterious dispersion of the Ten Lost Tribes.
From the Indian
subcontinent to Central Asia; from China and Mongolia through Southeast
Asia, Korea and Japan; from the Caucus Mountains to the heart of
Africa, the dispersed descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes are alive and
breathing under different regimes, within a variety of cultures,
religions, and languages, all the while inciting profound questions and
wonder.
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