Old Canaan in a New World – Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel

Old Canaan in a New WorldNative Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel\nAuthor(s): Elizabeth Fenton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479866366, 978-1479866366\nSynopsis\nWere indigenous Americans descendants of the lost tribes of Israel?\n From the moment Europeans realized Columbus had landed in a place unknown to them in 1492, they began speculating about how the Americas and their inhabitants fit into the Bible. For many, the most compelling explanation was the Hebraic Indian theory, which proposed that indigenous Americans were the descendants of the ten lost tribes of Israel. For its proponents, the theory neatly explained why this giant land and its inhabitants were not mentioned in the Biblical record. \n In Old Canaan in a New World, Elizabeth Fenton shows that though the Hebraic Indian theory may seem far-fetched today, it had a great deal of currency and significant influence over a ver.