Ashur (Bible)
Ashur (אַשּׁוּר ʾAššūr) was the second son of
Lud, and Aram
.
Ashur | |
|---|---|
| Children | Phares Mirus Mokil |
| Parent | Shem |
Prior to the discovery of the
Sir Walter Raleigh devoted several pages in his History of the World (c. 1616) to reciting past scholarship regarding the question of whether it had been Nimrod or Ashur who built the cities in Assyria.[2] Both the JPS Tanakh 1917 and the 1611 King James Bible clarify the language of the Septuagint and Vulgate translations of Genesis 10:11-12, by explicitly crediting Ashur as the founder of the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth, Calah
, and Resen.
The
Flavius Josephus
also gives the following statement: "Ashur lived at the city of Nineveh; and named his subjects Assyrians, who became the most fortunate nation, beyond others" (Antiquities, i, vi, 4).
Ashur had three sons called Phares,[5] Mirus and Mokil.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Samuel Shuckford; James Talboys Wheeler (1858), The sacred and profane history of the world connected, vol. 1, pp. 106–107
- ^ Walter Raleigh, History of the World p. 358–365
- ^ VanderKam, "Jubilees, Book of" in L. H. Schiffman and J. C. VanderKam (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Oxford University Press (2000), Vol. I, p. 435.
- ^ "Jubilees 9". www.pseudepigrapha.com. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ^ "news".
- ^ "Chapter 7". Sefer Ha-yashar, or, the Book of Jasher (1840).