But the tradition of Hellenistic Jewish identifications of the ancestry of various peoples, which concentrates very much on the Eastern Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East (described below), became stretched and its historicity questioned. Further descendants of Noah include Eber – from Shem (from whom come the ' Hebrews') the hunter-king Nimrod – from Cush and the Philistines – from Misrayim.Īs Christianity spread across the Roman Empire, it carried the idea that all people were descended from Noah. Likewise, from the sons of Canaan: Heth, Jebus, and Amorus were derived Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites. Certain of Noah's grandsons were also used for names of peoples: from Elam, Ashur, Aram, Cush, and Canaan were derived respectively the Elamites, Assyrians, Arameans, Cushites, and Canaanites.

The list of 70 names introduces for the first time several well-known ethnonyms and toponyms important to biblical geography, such as Noah's three sons Shem, Ham and Japheth, from which 18th century German scholars at the Göttingen School of History derived the race terminology Semites, Hamites and Japhetites. 400 CE Latin Vulgate's 'nationes', and does not have the same political connotations that the word entails today. The term nations to describe the descendants is a standard English translation of the Hebrew word ' goyim', following the c. The Generations of Noah, also called the Table of Nations or Origines Gentium, is a genealogy of the sons of Noah, according to the Hebrew Bible ( Genesis 10:9), and their dispersion into many lands after the Flood, focusing on the major known societies. The world as known to the Hebrews according to the Mosaic account (1854 map, Historical Textbook and Atlas of Biblical Geography by Lyman Coleman)

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