Tribe of daN
See also: daN
The tribe of daN is one of the Twelve tribes of Israel.
daN, wire of Jacob and Bilha, gave its name to this tribe of Israel, whose territory, once installed in Ground of Israel, will be limited to the East by those of the tribes of Benjamin and Juda, in the South by that of Juda, of which it was separated by the torrent from Sorek , in North, by the territory of that of Éphraïm; and in the West, by the sea.
DaN married Dinah, one of his/her half-sisters.
Disappearance
From Xe century before Jesus-Christ, the tribe of daN is built-in the kingdom of Samarie, one of both kingdom Israélite (with the Royaume of Juda), with 9 other tribes. The kingdom of Samarie is destroyed by the Assyrian empire in several stages, the last into -722.The archeologists exhumed a good part of the files of the Assyrian empire. The Assyrian chronicles of Sargon II, the king who overcame the kingdom of Samarie, indicate:
Inhabitants of Samarie, which fell from agreement and which plotted with an enemy king because they did not want any more to support the yoke of the constraint and to pour the tribute with Assur and which fought battle to me, I fought them with the capacity of the large gods, my lords. Like spoils, I counted 27.280 people, together with their tanks and their gods, in whom they had placed their confidence. With 200 their tanks, I formed a battalion for my royal army. I off-set the others in the middle of the Assyrie. I repopulated Samarie more than before. I installed there populations of country conquered by my soins.
It is noted that the text does not specify if Sargon II speaks about the town of Samarie or the kingdom of Samarie.
Of dimensioned sound, the Second book of the Kings, undoubtedly writes two to three century after the deportations, indicates in its chapter 15 that almost all the Jews of North were off-set.
There are common points with the Books of the Kings: the deportation of the Jews took place well, as well as the establishment of foreign colonists. But there is also an important difference: the number of the deportees. For the Second Book of the Kings, it is all the population or almost which was off-set. For Sargon II, it is a minority. The archeologists indeed estimate the population of the kingdom of Samarie at 200.000 people, according to the found cities and villages. There had been a first deportation well 10 years earlier, when the Assyrian king Téglat-Phalassar III had conquered Galileo. But it also was quantified to the Assyrian texts. The total of the two deportations reaches surroundings 40.000 people, that is to say 20% only total of the inhabitants. Undoubtedly primarily the elite.
One found, in Guézér and in the surroundings, of the wedge-shaped texts of VIIe century before J.C containing of Babylonian names . The deportation of alien populations in Samarie (at least in certain zones), affirmed by Sargon II and the Book of the Kings, thus is well confirmed. Archeology states on the other hand that this repopulation is far from being massive. The potteries, inscriptions, villages, etc show a great continuity with the former period. The book of Jérémie (Jr 41,5) reports that 150 years after the fall of the kingdom of North, of the Jews of North (of the towns of Sichem, Silo and Samarie) arised with offerings for the temple of Jerusalem.
From IIIe century before Jesus-Christ at the latest, a population called the “Samaritains” is well identified in the old zones of the kingdom of Samarie, and affirms to go down from the ten tribes. The Jews of Juda, which one now calls “Juif S” refuse to recognize them like Jews, and regard them as the quasi-exclusive descendants of the Assyrian colonists. The tribe of daN and the other tribes of North are officially declared like “disappeared”, creating the topic of the Ten lost tribes.
See also: Samaritans
For the Samaritans and much of historians, the tribe of daN was melted in the populations of North after the Assyrian victory, and particularly within the population Samaritain E.
For the orthodoxe Judaism, the tribe of daN and the other tribes of North mysteriously disappeared. Many Jews or Christians will not have then cease to find them.
The research of the tribe of daN
Three of the ten tribes of Israel, from which that of daN, would be flee towards the African continent, in Nubie. At the 15th century, an Egyptian Jewish leader, the Radbaz (Rabbi David Ben Zimra, 1462-1572), identifies in the Falashas of Ethiopia the descendants of the tribe of daN. The chief rabbi Sépharade of Israel, Ovadia Yossef, will take again his thesis in 1973, opening the way with the recognition of the Falashas like Jews by the State of Israel in 1975.
Always according to the tradition, another fringe of the tribe of daN would have followed the road of iron to reach the kingdom Mandingue. Another “legend” affirms that descendants of daN would have arrived until in Scotland and even at the Denmark, meaning word: the mark of daN. It should be recalled that only the tribe of daN was supposed to know to sail.
The current area of the Israeli agglomeration of Tel Aviv, along the coast, took the name of Gush daN.
Deliver Apocalypse
The book of the Apocalypse, allotted to the Jean apostle, quotes the twelve tribes of Israel in chapter 7, verses 4 and following, without mentioning the tribe of daN (but by quoting like tribes with whole share those of Ephraïm and Manassé).
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