After the destruction of the Temple and the exile, the Jews were scattered all over the world. Thus, at different times, Jewish communities existed in many places around the world. In the encounter between Jewish culture and other religions and the surrounding peoples, there were places where people and ethnic groups had linked their fate with the Jewish religion and even established a political framework with Jews in a Jewish kingdom. We’ll be exploring those Jewish kingdoms outside the Promised Land in this new series.
In the south of the Arabian Peninsula, desert tribes controlled trade between India in the east and Rome in the west. One tribe was the Himyar, who eventually became a kingdom, where Yemen is today. Himyar existed as an ancient South Arabian kingdom from the 1st century BC to 570 AD. The new kingdom on the Incense Route expanded to the coast to control maritime trade at the exit of the Red Sea. It is the same Bab el Mandeb Strait where the Houthis are now disrupting international shipping. Himyar suppressed the other Arab...
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