Tribe
First published in 1930, The Lost Tribes a Myth, here cataloged simply as Tribe, is Allen Howard Godbey's exhaustive scholarly survey of the legends and historical claims surrounding the so-called Lost Tribes of Israel. Godbey draws on Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Ethiopian, and Asian sources to trace how the disappearance of the ten northern tribes of Israel in the eighth century BCE became, over the following two and a half millennia, a screen onto which dozens of cultures projected their origin stories. He examines the Falasha of Ethiopia, the Beta Israel traditions of east Africa, the Pashtun and Kashmiri claims of descent, the medieval European Khazar identification, and the British Israelite movement of his own century. The result is a meticulous, if dated, work of comparative religion that takes seriously the imaginative power of the Lost Tribes idea while patiently demonstrating that most of the specific identifications cannot be sustained.
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In a hundred and seventy pages, war reporter Sebastian Junger argues that modern American life is making veterans and civilians sick by failing to give either a tribe.
The most commonly searched is Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger (2016), nonfiction about veterans and modern alienation. Junger is also the author of The Perfect Storm and War.
Yes. Tribe argues that the modern lack of community, particularly evident in returning veterans, contributes to mental health crises. Junger draws on anthropology, psychology, and his own time embedded with U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
Tribe is 802 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Tribe takes most readers 12 to 17 hours to finish.
Tribe is a standalone novel by Godbey, Allen Howard, not part of a series.
Tribe is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.