Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Dear Yohanan,

First of all, welcome to the list. Second, please remember to sign your
posts - it's much more pleasant to carry on discussions with people who have
names that with unsigned posts.

As far as Kush is concerned: Most traditions identify biblical Kush with
what the Greeks called Ethiopia, or what the Egyptians called Nubia, which
is actually modern Sudan. But, as you wrote, Gen. 10 also considers some
Arabian tribes to be descendants of Kush, son of Ham. In other places,
Midian is seen as "Kush" (remember Moses' Kushite wife). However, Gen. 10
does NOT say that Babel, Ereck etc. were Kushite. All is says is that
Nimrod, "son of" Kush, "built" these places. And it does not say where
Nimrod came frum,'


Yigal Levin



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yohanan bin-Dawidh" <yohanan.bin.dawidh AT gmail.com>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 7:04 AM
Subject: [b-hebrew] Kush


> *How is that people always attempt to connect Kush with Ethiopia, when in
> truth, while the descendents of Kush may have included the Ethiopians, we
> know from the Tanakh that it did include the towns of Bavel, Urik, Akkad,
> Kalneh, Nin'evah, Resen, Rehoboth-Ur and Kalah, all of which fall in the
> Mesopotamia area near Bavel. We also know that it included the descendents
> of Seva', Hawilah, Sav'ttah, Ra'mah, and Sav'tteka. And from Ra'mah we
> know
> it included Sheva, and Dedan. And one idea is that Ra'mah is also an area
> of
> the Persian gulf area, and Sheva is the land of the Sabeans, i.e. Yemen,
> and
> not Ethiopia. We know for a fact that Bavel was a city of the Kushim, but
> so
> many people attempt to link Ethiopia and Kush together ignoring all other
> people linked to Kush, and this bothers me greatly for it gives a false
> impression of what the Tanakh does, and does not state.*
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