Friday, August 3, 2007

eldad???

Eldad the Danite, as he is often still referred to in Jewish histories, said he was the lone survivor of a shipwreck, escaped cannibals, and spoke of many other fabulous adventures he had had before arriving in Tunisia. He was of dark skin, spoke only a strange sort of Hebrew (and no Arabic), and claimed to be a Jew of a pastoralist tribe residing in the land of Havilah beyond the rivers of Ethiopia (the southern Sudan, most likely, but possibly Somalia). This tribe was made up of the descendants

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