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285:"An Epistolicall Discourse Of Mr. IOHN DƲRY, TO Mr. THOROWGOOD. Concerning his conjecture that the Americans are descended from the Israelites. With the History of a Portugall Iew, Antonie Monterinos, attested by Manasseh Ben Israel, to the same effect."
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Spanish in Amsterdam later on that same year. The English version of Menasseh's work called "The Hope of Israel", probably also translated from Latin into English by John Dury, was first published in London by Moses Wall in 1652.
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158:, from a prominent family in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England. In the History of Norfolk annals he is described as "rector of Great Cressingham " -
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Indians or Jews? An introduction to a reprint of
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Menasseh ben Israel: The Hope of Israel; The English translation by Moses Wall, 1652
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Puritans, The Millenium and the Future of Israel: Puritan Eschatology, 1600-1660
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A94301.0001.001/1:9.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A94301.0001.001/1:5?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
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Americans no Jews, or improbabilities that the Americans are of that Race
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The Learned Conjectures of Rev. John Eliot touching the Americans.
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https://en.wikisource.org/History_of_Norfolk/Volume_6
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175:The Lost Tribes of Israel: The History of a Myth
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269:, vol. 1, Jerusalem, 1984, p. 188; Glaser,
239:, Gilroy, California, Roy V. Boswell, 1973.
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73:"Jewish Indian" theory
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