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Shutu or Sutu is the name given in ancient Akkadian language
Akkadian language

Akkadian or Assyrian-Babylonian is a Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system derived ultimately from ancient Sumerian language, an unrelated language isolate....
 sources to certain nomad
Nomad

Nomadic people, , also known as nomads, are communities of people who move from one place to another, rather than Settler in one location....
ic groups of the Trans-Jordanian highlands, extending deep into 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....
 and Southern Iraq
Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
. Many scholars have speculated that "Shutu" may be a variant of the Egyptian
Egyptian language

Egyptian is a branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages language family along with the Chadic languages, Berber languages, Semitic languages, Cushitic languages and possibly Omotic languages languages....
 phrase shasu
Shasu

Shasu is an Egyptian language term for nomads who appeared in the Levant from the fifteenth century BCE all the way to the Third Intermediate Period....
.

An Egyptian execration text of the 17th century BCE refers to an "Ayyab" (possibly a variant form of the name Job
Job (Biblical figure)

Job , is a gentile man in the Book of Job in the Hebrew Bible, as well as a Prophets of Islam in Islam. In brief, the book begins with an introduction to Job's character — he is described as a blessed man who lives righteously....
) as king of the Shutu. Some scholars have tenuously identified the Shutu as the progenitors of the Moabites and Ammonites.








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Shutu or Sutu is the name given in ancient Akkadian language
Akkadian language

Akkadian or Assyrian-Babylonian is a Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system derived ultimately from ancient Sumerian language, an unrelated language isolate....
 sources to certain nomad
Nomad

Nomadic people, , also known as nomads, are communities of people who move from one place to another, rather than Settler in one location....
ic groups of the Trans-Jordanian highlands, extending deep into 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....
 and Southern Iraq
Iraq

Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
. Many scholars have speculated that "Shutu" may be a variant of the Egyptian
Egyptian language

Egyptian is a branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages language family along with the Chadic languages, Berber languages, Semitic languages, Cushitic languages and possibly Omotic languages languages....
 phrase shasu
Shasu

Shasu is an Egyptian language term for nomads who appeared in the Levant from the fifteenth century BCE all the way to the Third Intermediate Period....
.

An Egyptian execration text of the 17th century BCE refers to an "Ayyab" (possibly a variant form of the name Job
Job (Biblical figure)

Job , is a gentile man in the Book of Job in the Hebrew Bible, as well as a Prophets of Islam in Islam. In brief, the book begins with an introduction to Job's character — he is described as a blessed man who lives righteously....
) as king of the Shutu. Some scholars have tenuously identified the Shutu as the progenitors of the Moabites and Ammonites.

Bibliography

  • Baikie, James. The Amarna Age: A Study of the Crisis of the Ancient World. University Press of the Pacific, 2004.
  • Cohen, Raymond and Raymond Westbrook (eds.). Amarna Diplomacy: The Beginnings of International Relations. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
  • Moran, William L. (ed. and trans.) The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-801-84251-4.
  • Redford, Donald. Egypt, Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-691-00086-7.