Tiras

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Tiras (

Greek people), its geographical locale is sometimes associated by scholars with the Tershi or Tirsa, one of the groups which made up the Sea Peoples "thyrsenes" (Tyrrhenians), a naval confederacy which terrorized Egypt and other Mediterranean nations around 1200 BCE.[1] These Sea People are referred to as "Tursha" in an inscription of Ramesses III, and as "Teresh of the Sea" on the Merneptah Stele.[2][3]

Some theologians associate Tiras with

Tyrsenoi
before emigrating to Italy as early as the 8th century BC.

Ancient and Medieval Identifications

According to the Book of Jubilees, the inheritance of Tiras consisted of four large islands in the ocean.

Josephus wrote that Tiras became ancestor of the "Thirasians" (Thracians) — a "flame-haired" (red or blond haired) people according to Xenophanes (Antiquities of the Jews, I, 6).

Movses Khorenatsi, 5th century Armenian historian, attributed the founder of Armenian nation, Hayk, to being a grandson of Tiras.

According to tractate

Persia
.

The Persian historian

Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (c. 915) recounts a tradition that Tiras had a son named Batawil, whose daughters Qarnabil, Bakht, and Arsal became the wives of Cush, Put, and Canaan
, respectively.

The mediaeval Hebrew compilation, the

Yosippon as above, also provides a separate tradition of Tiras' sons elsewhere, naming them as Maakh, Tabel, Bal’anah, Shampla, Meah, and Elash. This material was ultimately derived from Pseudo-Philo
(ca. 75 AD), extant copies of which list Tiras' sons as Maac, Tabel, Ballana, Samplameac, and Elaz.

Another medieval rabbinic text

Kievan Rus, listing them together with his brother Meshech
's supposed descendants as "the Rossi; the Saqsni and the Iglesusi".

Modern interpretations

English theologian

Athyras, which has in it a trace of this man's name; and Odrysus, whom the Thracians worshipped, is the same with Tiras, which god sometimes goes by the name of Thrax; and is one of the names of Mars, the god of the Thracians.".[6]

According to some biblical commentators, the descendants of Tiras have been identified with the Tyrsenoi, "who raided throughout the

Ramses II.[7] Some biblical commentators also propose a possible connection with the city of Troy, known in the Hittite language as Taruisa. [7]

Others (including

Daniel G. Brinton) have suggested Tiras is the progenitor of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.[8]

Notes

  1. ISBN 978-1-934536-43-8
    .
  2. ^ The Bible for Home and School Macmillan, 1909 p. 90
  3. ^ International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1995) p. 859
  4. ISBN 978-0-310-53102-9
    .
  5. ^ Kommentar Über die Genesis, pp. 216-217 216-217.
  6. ^ John Gill (25 June 2018). A Commentary On The Book Of Genesis. Bierton Particular Baptist. pp. 114–115. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help), based on the King James Bible, with ending footnotes
  7. ^
    ISBN 0-8028-3784-0
    . Retrieved Aug 26, 2018.
  8. ^ "What Are the Origins of the American Indian Peoples (Genesis 10:2)?".


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