Eldad ha-Dani

Eldad ben Mahli, known as the Danite, lived in the second half of the ninth century. A merchant and traveller, probably from southern Arabia, he presented himself as a subject of an independent Jewish state in eastern Africa, inhabited by four of the lost tribes, and claimed to speak only Hebrew. He passed through Babylonia, Kairouan and Spain, spreading his tales and the religious rules he said were followed in his homeland, and the medieval Hebrew grammarians cited him for his language.

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