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A list of nations mentioned in the Bible. A. Ammonites (Genesis 19) Amorites [1] Arabia [2]
[13] [14] The point of the "blessing of Japheth" seems to be that Japheth (a Greek-descended people) and Shem (the Israelites) would rule jointly over Canaan . From the 19th century until the late 20th century, it was usual to see Japheth as a reference to the Philistines , who shared dominion over Canaan during the pre-monarchic and early ...
The Mediterranean race (also Mediterranid race) is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on the now-disproven theory of biological race. [1] [2] [3] According to writers of the late 19th to mid-20th centuries it was a sub-race of the Caucasian race. [4]
The Bible records that the Tribe of Ephraim entered the land of Canaan during its conquest by Joshua, a descendant of Ephraim himself. [4] However, many archeologists have abandoned the idea that Joshua carried out a conquest of Canaan similar to that described in the Book of Joshua, seeing Jews instead as indigenous Canaanites who developed a ...
A nation today is defined as "a large aggregate of people inhabiting a particular territory united by a common descent, history, culture, or language." The biblical line of descent is irrespective of language, [143] place of nativity, [144] or cultural influences, as all that is binding is one's patrilineal line of descent. [145]
This "defensive" form of Mediterraneanism arose mostly as a response to the then-popular theory of Nordicism, a racial theory popular at the time among Northwestern European and Germanic racial theorists, as well as racial theorists of Northwestern European descent in countries such as the United States, that viewed non-Nordic people, including ...
For some, this blackness was due to Jesus's identification with black people, not to the color of his skin, [58] while others such as the black nationalist Albert Cleage argued that Jesus was ethnically black. [59] A study which was documented in the 2001 BBC series Son of God attempted to determine what Jesus's race and appearance may have ...
Ashkenaz: A people of the Black and Caspian sea areas, much later associated with German and East European Jews. [9] The Ashkuza, who lived on the upper Euphrates in Armenia expelled the Cimmerians from their territory, and in Jeremiah 51:27 were said to march against Babylon along with two other northern kingdoms.