{"id":2699,"date":"2025-11-30T17:24:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T01:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/eldad-ben-ma%e1%b8%a5li-ha-dan-9th-century-african-israelite\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T17:24:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T01:24:03","slug":"eldad-ben-ma%e1%b8%a5li-ha-dan-9th-century-african-israelite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/eldad-ben-ma%e1%b8%a5li-ha-dan-9th-century-african-israelite\/","title":{"rendered":"Eldad ben Ma\u1e25li ha-Dan &#8211; 9th Century African Israelite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lyr3DUCJTZ4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Eldad ben Ma\u1e25li ha-Dan &#8211; one of the 9th Century African #israelites. This a part of #blackhistory  you want to listen and understand since it also connects to #africanamericanhistory. <\/p>\n<p>This is a critical review comparing two videos of two different historians from two different communities about Eldad the Danite\u2014claiming descent from the Tribe of Dan\u2014 who taught in the 800s AD that Israelite tribes lived deep in Africa. His descriptions match West African groups who preserved Israelite traditions for centuries: the Tindirma Israelites of Mali, the Idaksahak (\u201cSons of Isaac\u201d), the Bani Israel of Senegal, and even the Da or Yakob\u00e9 tribe of C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, whose name connects to \u201cYa\u02bfaqob\u201d (Jacob) and whose clans preserve ancient Israelite-style customs. <\/p>\n<p>When people from these regions were taken during the slave trade, parts of these traditions traveled with them, becoming part of the heritage of many African Americans today.<\/p>\n<p>Will Son of Yah Video<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The History Of Eldad the Danite\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DYx5__QRlys?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Henry Abramson Video<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/vvFHKZlVxMc?si=kAqaR4B9fkYbXDoh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eldad ben Ma\u1e25li ha-Dan &#8211; one of the 9th Century African #israelites. This a part of #blackhistory you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mamlekhet-kohanim"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hqdefault-17.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}