Biblical Hebrew Forum

["K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Yohanan:

Your list is true, for about 4,000 years ago. But what it does not
take into account is what happened afterwards. Peoples die out,
assimilate, migrate, so what was true at one time may no longer be
true at a later date.

Later references to Cush as a geographic locality referred to Africa
south of Egypt, without specifying where the borders were nor how far
south. Traditionally it has been translated as "Ethiopia" but you are
right, that is not really the most accurate.

By the way, Genesis lists Babylon as the place where all peoples
migrated from, and though it was founded by a Cushite, there is no
record that it remained a Cushite city state.

Karl W. Randolph.

On 3/19/07, Yohanan bin-Dawidh <yohanan.bin.dawidh AT gmail.com> wrote:
> *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.*