Arpachshad

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Arpachshad

Arpachshad or Arphaxad or Arphacsad ( ; ; "healer," "releaser") was one of the five sons of Shem

Shem

Shem was one of the sons of Noah in the Bible. He is most popularly regarded as the eldest son, though some traditions regard him as the second son....
, the son of Noah

Noah

Noah was, according to the Bible, the tenth and last of the antediluvian Patriarchs ; and a prophet according to the Qur'an. The biblical story of Noah is contained in the book of Book of Genesis, chapters 5-9, while the Qur'an has a whole sura named after and devoted to his story with other references elsewhere....
(Genesis 10:22, 24; 11:10-13; 1 Chron. 1:17-18). His brothers were Elam

Elam

Elam was an ancient civilization located in what is now southwest Iran.Elam was centered in the far west and southwest of modern-day Iran, stretching from the lowlands of Khuzestan and Ilam Province , as far as Jiroft in Kerman province and Burned City in Zabol, as well as a small part of southern Iraq....
, Asshur, Lud

Lud son of Shem

Lud was a son of Shem and grandson of Noah, according to Genesis 10 . Lud should not be confused with the Ludim, said there to be descended from Mizraim....
and Aram

Aram

The term Aram may refer to:In the Bible:* Aram, son of Shem , according to the 'Table of Nations' in Genesis 10* Aram-Naharaim , the land in which the city of Haran lay...
; he is an ancestor of Abraham

Abraham

Abraham is a man featured in the Book of Genesis and an important figure in several monotheistic religions. Judaism, Christianity and Islam traditions regard him as the founding Patriarchs of the Israelites, Ishmaelites and Edomite peoples....
. He is said by Gen. 11:10 to have been born two years after the Flood, when Shem was 100.

Arpachshad's son is called Shelah

List of minor Biblical figures

This list contains persons named in the Bible of minor notability, about whom either nothing or very little is known, aside from any family connections....
, except in the Septuagint

Septuagint

The Septuagint , or simply "LXX", is the Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, translated in stages between the 3rd century BC and 1st century BC in Alexandria....
, where his son is Cainan

Cainan

Cainan can refer to either:*A variant of the name Kenan in the generations of Adam, the lists of antediluvian patriarchs given in the Torah;...
(????), Shelah being Arpachshad's grandson.

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Arpachshad or Arphaxad or Arphacsad ( ; ; "healer," "releaser") was one of the five sons of Shem

Shem

Shem was one of the sons of Noah in the Bible. He is most popularly regarded as the eldest son, though some traditions regard him as the second son....
, the son of Noah

Noah

Elam

Lud son of Shem

Lud was a son of Shem and grandson of Noah, according to Genesis 10 . Lud should not be confused with the Ludim, said there to be descended from Mizraim....
and Aram

Aram

Abraham

List of minor Biblical figures

This list contains persons named in the Bible of minor notability, about whom either nothing or very little is known, aside from any family connections....
, except in the Septuagint

Septuagint

Cainan

Cainan can refer to either:*A variant of the name Kenan in the generations of Adam, the lists of antediluvian patriarchs given in the Torah;...
(????), Shelah being Arpachshad's grandson. Cainan is also identified as Arpachshad's son in Luke

Gospel of Luke

The Gospel of Luke is a Synoptic Gospels, and is the third and longest of the four Biblical canonical Gospels of the New Testament. The text narrates the life of Jesus of Nazareth....
3:36 and Jubilees

Jubilees

The Book of Jubilees , sometimes called the Lesser Genesis , is an ancient Jewish religious work, considered one of the Pseudepigrapha by most Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox Christians....
8:1.

Other ancient Jewish sources, particularly the Book of Jubilees, point to Arpachshad as the immediate progenitor of Ura and Kesed, who allegedly founded the city of Ur Kesdim
Ur Kasdim

'Ur Kasdim' or 'Ur of the Chaldees' is the town in the Hebrew Bible and related literature where Abraham may have been born. The traditional site of Abraham's birth is in the vicinity of Edessa, Mesopotamia although Ur Kasdim has been popularly identified since 1927 by Leonard Woolley with the Sumerian city of Ur, in southern Mesopotami...
(Ur of the Chaldees) on the west bank of the Euphrates

Euphrates

The Euphrates is the western of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia which flows from Anatolia....
(Jub. 9:4; 11:1-7) — the same bank where Ur

Ur is modern Tell el-Mukayyar, Iraq, and was a city in ancient Sumer. Once a coastal city near the mouth of the then Euphrates river on the Persian Gulf, Ur is now well inland....
, identified by Leonard Woolley

Leonard Woolley

Sir Charles Leonard Woolley was a British archaeologist best known for his excavations at Ur in Mesopotamia. He is considered to have been one of the first "modern" archaeologists, and was knighted in 1935 for his contributions to the discipline of archaeology....
in 1927 as Ur of the Chaldees, is located.

Donald B. Redford has asserted that Arpachshad is to be identified with Babylon

Babylon

Babylon was a city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, sometimes considered an empire, the remains of which can be found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Governorate, Iraq, about 85 kilometers south of Baghdad....
. Until Woolley's identification of Ur, Arpachshad was understood by many Jew

Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish and Muslim

Muslim

:A Muslim , , is an adherent of the religion of Islam. The feminine form is Muslimah . Literally, the word means "one who submits "....
scholars to be an area in northern Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is the area of the Tigris-Euphrates river system, along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern Iraq, as well as some parts of northeastern Syria, some parts of southeastern Turkey, and some parts of the Khuzestan Province of southwestern Iran....
, Urfa of the Yazidi

Yazidi

The Yazidi is a Kurds religion with ancient Indo-Iranians roots. Yazidis are primarily Kurdish language, and most live in the Mosul region of northern Iraq....
s. This led to the identification of Arpachshad with Urfa-Kasid (due to similarities in the names ??????? and ?????) - a land associated with the Khaldis

Khaldis

The Khaldis was a conglomeration of at least 79 different gods known to the Urartu and Hurrians. The inscription of Argistis near Lake Van states:...
, whom Josephus

Josephus

Josephus , also known as Yosef Ben Matityahu and, after he became a Roman citizenship, as Titus Flavius Josephus, was a first-century Jewish historian and apologist of priestly and royal ancestry who survived and recorded the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70....
confused with the Chaldean

Chaldean

Chaldean may refer to:#historical Babylonia, in particular in a Hellenistic context#* Chaldea, "the Chaldees" was a Hellenistic designation for a part of Babylonia....
s.

Another Arpachshad is referenced in the deuterocanonical Book of Judith

Book of Judith

[Image:Cristofano Allori 002.jpg|thumb|220px|Judith with the Head of Holophernes, by Cristofano Allori, 1613 The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Septuagint and in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible, but excluded by Judaism and Protestantism....
as being the "king of the Medes

Medes

The Medes were an Ancient Iranian peoples who lived in the northwestern portions of present-day Iran. This area was known in Greek as Media or Medea ....
" contemporary with Nebuchadnezzar II, but this is thought to be a corruption of the historical name Cyaxares

Cyaxares

Cyaxares, Hvakhshathra,Xasro or Kayxosrew , the son of King Phraortes, was the first king of Medes .He reorganized and modernized the Median Army, then joined with King Nabopolassar of Babylon....
(Hvakhshathra).

Arpachshad

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