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have been explained , at least for the most part , by Bochart and J . D . Michaelis , * by whose labours , together with some investigations of our own , we shall be guided in the subsequent illustrations , which we shall insert in parentheses , and reserve the proofs of them for separate articles . The following are reckoned as descendants of Japhet ( vers . 2—5 ) : Gomer ( Cimmerians ) , Magog ( Arab . Jagu £ and Magog , a mythical nation in the
North , such as the Scythians ) , Madai ( Medes ) , Javan ( Ionians , Greeks , Arab . Javan ) , Tubal and Meshech ( Tibareni and Moschi , in Asia Minor ) , Thiras ( Thracians ?) . From Gomer are derived , with some unknown tribes , Thogarma ( Armenians ) ; from Javan Elisa ( Elisov Hellas ) , Tarsis ( Tartessus , in Spain ) , Chktim ( Cyprians , from the town Kmov ) , and Dodanirn ( better reading Rhodanim , Rhodians ) .
To the descendants of Ham are referred ( vers . 6—20 ) , first , Cush ('^ EthiopiansJ ' , Misraim (^ Egyptians J , Phut , and Canaan ; then to Cush tribes in ^ Ethiopia and the South of Arabia , with Nimrod , the founder of the Babylonian empire ; to Misraim , besides ^ E gyptian races , the Casluchim ( Colchians ) , and Caphtorim ( Cretans ) ; to Canaan , the different Canaanitish races , among whom the Sidonians are called the eldest .
Lastly , from Sem , the first-born ( vers . 22 — 32 ) , are derived immediately Elam , ( Elymais , Persians ) , Assur ( Assyrians ) , Arphaxad ( Chaldeans ) , Lud ( Lydians ) , Aram ( Aramceans ) . From Arphaxad comes in the second generation , Eber ( Hebrews ) , attd in the third Joktan ( Arab . Kachtan ) , the progenitor of the Arabian tribes , among which Ophir , celebrated for gold , and Saba for frankincense , are mentioned .
This representation has been understood as implying , that each people was derived from a founder or progenitor of the same name ; for example , Misraim ( the Egyptians ) from a certain Misraim , and Jebusi ( the Jebusites ) from a man named Jebusi , which can no more be regarded as historically true , than that , among the Greeks and Romans , Italy ( which properly means pasture-land , from iraXos , vitulus ) was called from a mythical person Italns , Graecia from Graecus , &c . This is the more obvious , since in many cases the name of the nation , country , or town , which is clearly an
appeliafrom the Arabic names , although the same places during the period of the Grecian domination received quite different Greek names . It appears that the genuine Eastern names were uever entirely lost among the people themselves , so that , after they had shaken off the Grecian yoke , they were able to reject the use of the new and to recall the ancient indigenous names , as the numerous squares , bridges , "heights , &c , called after Napoleon , hare , after a short duration , vanished again out of Germany . Hence Acco , in Greek Ptolemais . iu Arabic agaiu Acca ;
Hamath , ^^ Q Greek Epiphania , Arabic Hamath SL *^* . Rabbath-Ammon , < 3 reek Philadelphia , Arabic Amman . In a few cases the Greek name lias remained in the Arabic , especially when the place was of more recent origin , as Sechetn , Neapolis , Arabic Naplus ; Gerasa , which was of Roman origin . Arabic LT'lf ^ ? Sam . Bocharti Geographia Sacra , P . I . ; Phaleg , de Dispersione Gentium , ( a Comment on Gen . x . ) P . II . ; CanaaD , de Coloniis et Sermone Phoenicum , 1646 ,
folio ; and , in subsequent years , as 1681 , 1707 , 1712 , a very learned composition , but overflowing with bold hypotheses , J . D . M ' tchaelis Spicilegium Geogr . Hebraeorura exterae post Bochartuin , P . I . ; Gutting . 1768 , P . II . 1733 , Abo . J . H . Former epistolae adj . D . Michaeleni , hujus spicilegium jam confirm , jam castig . Gott . 1772 , 4 to . Also , the articles relating to geography in my Hebrew Lexicon , and Schulthess , das Paradics , nebst einer kritischen Ubersicht des allgein . bibl . Geographie , Zurich , 1816 , in which it is only U > be objected , that the proofs are not quoted with sufficient accuracy .
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434 Biblical Geography .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1830, page 434, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2586/page/2/
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