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'Arpachshad' or 'Arphaxad' or 'Arphacsad' ('אַרְפַּכְשַׁד' / 'אַרְפַּכְשָׁד' "healer; releaser", Standard Hebrew , Tiberian Hebrew / , Arabic أرفخشذ Ārfakhshad.') was one of the five sons of Shem, the son of Noah (Genesis 10:22,24;11:12,13; 1 Chronicles 1:17,18). His brothers were Elam, Asshur, Lud and Aram; he is an ancestor of Abraham.
Arpachshad's son is called Shelah, except in the Septuagint, where his son is Cainan ('קינן'), Shelah being Arpachshad's grandson.
Other ancient Jewish sources, particularly the Book of Jubilees, point to Arpachsad as the immediate progenitor of Ura and Kesed, who allegedly founded the city of ''Ur Kesdim'' (Ur of the Chaldees) on the south bank of the Euphrates (Jub. 9:4; 1:1-7) — the same bank where Ur, identified by Leonard Woolley in 1927 as Ur of the Chaldees, was located.
Donald B. Redford
[1]
has asserted that Arpachsad is to be identified with Babylon.
Until the identification of Woolley, Arpachshad was understood by many Jewish and Muslim scholars to be an area in northern Mesopotamia, Urfa of the Yazidis. This led to the identification of Arpachshad with Urfa-Kasid (due to similarities in the names 'ארפ־כשד' and 'כשדים') - a land associated with the Khaldis, whom Josephus confused with the Chaldeans.
1. ''Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times'', p. 405
Ur Kasdim''
'Arpachshad' or 'Arphaxad' or 'Arphacsad' ('אַרְפַּכְשַׁד' / 'אַרְפַּכְשָׁד' "healer; releaser", Standard Hebrew , Tiberian Hebrew / , Arabic أرفخشذ Ārfakhshad.') was one of the five sons of Shem, the son of Noah (Genesis 10:22,24;11:12,13; 1 Chronicles 1:17,18). His brothers were Elam, Asshur, Lud and Aram; he is an ancestor of Abraham.
Arpachshad's son is called Shelah, except in the Septuagint, where his son is Cainan ('קינן'), Shelah being Arpachshad's grandson.
Other ancient Jewish sources, particularly the Book of Jubilees, point to Arpachsad as the immediate progenitor of Ura and Kesed, who allegedly founded the city of ''Ur Kesdim'' (Ur of the Chaldees) on the south bank of the Euphrates (Jub. 9:4; 1:1-7) — the same bank where Ur, identified by Leonard Woolley in 1927 as Ur of the Chaldees, was located.
Donald B. Redford
[1]
has asserted that Arpachsad is to be identified with Babylon.
Until the identification of Woolley, Arpachshad was understood by many Jewish and Muslim scholars to be an area in northern Mesopotamia, Urfa of the Yazidis. This led to the identification of Arpachshad with Urfa-Kasid (due to similarities in the names 'ארפ־כשד' and 'כשדים') - a land associated with the Khaldis, whom Josephus confused with the Chaldeans.
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References
1. ''Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times'', p. 405
See also
Ur Kasdim''
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