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127. Ibid., 3.
128. Ibid., ch. 8.
129. The characters dealt with in Rossi, Dark Abyss of Time, part II, shared these interests,
though most were more technically orthodox, including Vossius (father
and son), Bochart, Marsh, Burnet, and Horn. Father Simon, on the other
hand, was even more heretical.
130. See Robert Silverberg, The Realm of Prester John (Athens: Ohio University Press,
1972); The Hebrew Letters of Prester John, trans. and ed. E. Ullendorff and C. F.
Beckingham (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982).
131. Gow, Red Jews.
132. See Adolph Neubauer, “Where Are the Ten Tribes” Jewish Quarterly Review 1
(1888–9): 14–28, 95–114, 185–201, 408–23; Letters from Beyond the Sambatyon,
ed. Simcha Shtull-Trauring (New York: Maxima New Media, 1997).
133. See Avraham Gross, “The Ten Tribes and the Kingdom of Prester John—Rumors
and Investigations Before and After the Expulsion from Spain,” [Hebrew]
Pe’amim 48 (1991): 5–41; A. Z. Aescoli, “Introduction” to Sippur David ha-
Re’ubeni (Jerusalem: Ha-Hevrah ha-Eretz-Yisra’elit le-Historiah ve-
Ethnographiah, 1940); Sanders, Lost Tribes; David B. Ruderman, The World of a
Renaissance Jew: The Life and Thought of Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol
(Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1981), ch. 11; Silverberg, Realm of
Prester John, chs. 5–7.
134. See previous note, and David A. Ruderman, “Hope Against Hope: Jewish and
Christian Messianic Expectations in the Late Middle Ages,” in Exile and Diaspora:
Studies in the History of the Jewish People Presented to Professor Haim Beinart
(Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute and Madrid: Consejo Superior de investigaciones
científicas, 1991), pp. 185–202 (reprinted in Essential Papers on Jewish Culture in
Renaissance and Baroque Italy, ed. D. B. Ruderman [New York: New York University
Press, 1992], 299–323).
135. Richard H. Popkin, “Christian Jews and Jewish Christians in the 17th Century,”
in Jewish Christians and Christian Jews, ed. R. H. Popkin and G. M. Weiner
(Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1994), 57–72.
136. Aaron Zeev Aescoly, Jewish Messianic Movements: Sources and Documents on
Messianism in Jewish History from the Bar-Kokhba Revolt Until Recent Times, 2nd ed.
[Hebrew] (Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1987), p. 341, commentary on 342, and
following documents.
137. See Elkan N. Adler, Jewish Travelers in the Middle Ages: Nineteen Firsthand Accounts
(London: Routledge, 1930; reprint New York: Dover, 1987), 4–21.
138. See Manasseh ben Israel, The Hope of Israel, ed. H. Méchoulan and G. Nahon
(Oxford: Littman Library, 1987); Lynn Glaser, Indians or Jews An Introduction by
Lynn Glaser to a Reprint of Manasseh ben Israel’s ‘The Hope of Israel’ (Gilroy, Calif.:
Roy V. Boswell, 1973).
139. Hope of Israel, ed. Méchoulan and Nahon, p. 158.
140. See Richard H. Popkin, “The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Indian Theory,” in
Menasseh ben Israel and His World, 63–82; Hebrew and the Bible in America: The