 Abt 2454 B.C. - 1842 B.C.
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| Name |
Shem (Sceaf) (Sam)(Sem) [6] |
| Birth |
Abt 2454 B.C. |
Jerusalem  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
1842 B.C. |
Jerusalem |
| Notes |
- SHEM next married SEDEQETELEBAB, daughter of ELIAKIM and Unknown.
This is the traditional descent of the British Monarch's from Biblical sources
as recorded in the Anglo Saxon chronicles, which show Bedwig as being Sam's
son. The Icelandic Prose Edda shows a much more credible history which shows
descent from the Kings of Troy. I therefore go with the Prose Edda, but
both are oral histories.
Our direct line is through the king of troy I do not see any way that Bedwig can be the son of Shem. but this line is good for the Arab line.
See Kesed
«b»http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal02018«/b»
«b»http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps32/ps32_150.htm«/b»
«b»http://www.christiananswers.net/bible/luke3.html#23«/b»
Luke 3:36
«b»http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shem
Shem«/b» («u»Hebrew «/u»: , «u»Modern «/u» «/i» «u»Tiberian «/u» «/i» ; «u»Greek«/u»: ' «i»S«/i»; «u»Arabic «/u»: , «i»S«/i» ; «u»Ge'ez «/u»: «i»S«/i»; "renown; prosperity; name") was one of the «u»sons of Noah «/u» in the «u»Hebrew Bible «/u». He is most popularly regarded as the eldest son, though some traditions regard him as the second son. Genesis 10:21 refers to relative ages of Shem and his brother «u»Japheth «/u», but with sufficient ambiguity in each to have yielded different translations. The verse is translated in the «u»KJV «/u» as "Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of «u»Eber «/u», the brother of «b»Japheth the elder«/b», even to him were children born.". However, the «u»New American Standard Bible «/u» gives, "Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, and the «b»older brother of Japheth«/b», children were born."
Genesis 11:10 records that Shem was 100 years old at the birth of Arpachshad two years after the flood, making him 98 at the time of the flood; and that he lived for another 500 years after this, making his age at death 600 years.
The children of Shem were «u»Elam «/u», «u»Asshur «/u», «u»Aram «/u», «u»Arpachshad «/u» and «u»Lud «/u», in addition to daughters. «u»Abraham «/u», the patriarch of the Hebrews and Arabs, was one of the descendants of Arpachshad.
The 1st century historian «u»Flavius Josephus «/u», among many others, recounted the tradition that these five sons were the progenitors of the nations of «u»Elam «/u», «u»Assyria «/u», «u»Syria «/u», «u»Chaldea «/u», and «u»Lydia «/u», respectively.
Terms like "«u»Semite «/u»" and "Hamite" are less common now, and may sometimes even be perceived as offensive, because of their "«u»racial «/u»" connotations. The adjectival forms "«u»Semitic «/u»" and "«u»Hamitic «/u»" are more common, though the vague term 'Hamitic' dropped out of mainstream academic use in the 1960s. «i»Semitic«/i» is still a commonly used term for the «u»Semitic languages «/u», as a subset of the «u»Afro-Asiatic languages «/u», denoting the common linguistic heritage of «u»Arabic «/u», «u»Aramaic «/u», «u»Akkadian «/u», «u»Ethiopic «/u», «u»Hebrew «/u» and «u»Phoenician «/u» languages.
'Semitic' also appears in the phrase "«u»anti-Semitic «/u»" to refer to racial, ethnic or cultural prejudice aimed exclusively at «u»Jews «/u».
According to some Jewish traditions (e.g., B. «u»Talmud «/u» Nedarim 32b; «u»Genesis Rabbah «/u» 46:7; Genesis Rabbah 56:10; «u»Leviticus Rabbah «/u» 25:6; Numbers Rabbah 4:8.), Shem is believed to have been «u»Melchizedek «/u», King of Salem whom Abraham is recorded to have met after the battle of the four kings.
In a few of the many extra-biblical sources that describe him, Shem is also credited with killing «u»Nimrod «/u», son of Cush.
Shem is mentioned in «u»Genesis «/u» 5:32, 6:10; 7:13; 9:18,23,26-27; 10; 11:10; also in «u»1 Chronicles «/u» 1:4.
«b»Genealogies according to "Book of Jasher"
«/b»
A rabbinic document that surfaced in the 1600s, claiming to be the lost "«u»Book of Jasher «/u»" provides some names not found in any other source. Some have reconstructed more complete genealogies based on this information as follows:
Shem. Also Sem. Literal meanings are named or renown (father of the Semitic races - Shemites). The sons of Shem were:
«tab» Elam "eternity" (sons were Shushan, Machul and Harmon)«u»[1]«/u» - («u»Elamites «/u», «u»Khuzestanis «/u»)«u»[2]«/u»
«tab»Asshur "a step" or "strong" (sons were Mirus and Mokil)«u»[3]«/u» - («u»Assyrians «/u»
«tab»Arphaxad (sons were Shelach, Anar and Ashcol)«u»[3]«/u» - Hebrews («u»Israelites «/u», «u»Moabites «/u», «u»Ammonites «/u», «u»Edomites «/u», «u»Ishmaelites «/u», And «u»Qahtanites «/u» )
«tab»Lud "strife" (sons were Pethor and Bizayon)«u»[4]«/u» - (Ludim, Lubim, Ludians, Ludu, «u»Lydians «/u», and other related groups in «u»Asia Minor «/u».
«tab»Aram "exalted" (sons were Uz, Chul, Gather and Mash)«u»[4]«/u» - («u»Aramaeans «/u».
«b»Other proposed lineages from Shem
Europeans
«/b»Some believe that from Shem descend the whole of the European peoples. Ernest L. Martin writes, "«i»...[The] Shemite tribes (people who were descendants of Shem and including some peoples who came from Abraham) later colonized the whole of southern Europe and replaced the people of JAVAN and his four descendants. JAVAN'S people were pushed mainly into the northern areas of Europe where in turn they migrated farther east into Asia (along with GOMER the firstborn son of JAPHETH and his descendants). Indeed, in prophecies dealing also with the End-Time, we find the people of JAVAN no longer in Europe, but they are now associated with TUBAL [Ezekiel 38: & 39 end time prophecy] (another son of JAPHETH) who became an eastern Mongolian type of people...though the name JAVAN still retained its geographical hold on the southern region of Europe, particularly in Greece)...It is not uncommon for people to give a name to a region and then the original people move on to other areas (or are killed off) and the original geographical name becomes associated with completely different people«/i»" «u»[5]
«/u»
«b»Germanic
«/b»Some scholars have claimed that the Anglo-Saxons are the descendants of Shem. "«i»Alfred, king of the Anglo-Saxons [b. 849 A.D.] was... the son [descendant] of Sem [Shem]«/i»" («i»Church Historians of England«/i», vol. 2, p. 443). Proponents of this theory also claim that «u»Alfred the Great «/u» was a descendant of Shem because he claimed to descend from «u»Sceafa «/u», a marooned man who came to Britain on a boat after a flood.[\ul«i»citation needed \ulnone«/i»]
Le Petit, a writer in 1601 mentioned King Adel, said to be descendant of Shem, ruler of Britain having 3 children that migrated to India.
Further, it is said[\ul«i»who? \ulnone«/i»] that Tuitsch a German patriarch is none other than Shem himself (see «u»Assyrian-German theory «/u»).
«b»Hellenistic (Greek)
«/b»A text from Islam claims that the Greeks derived from Shem: Tabari II:11 "«i»Shem, the son of Noah was the father of the Arabs, the Persians, and the Greeks;...«/i»"
In Serge A. Zenkovsky's, «i»Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales«/i», "«i»To the lot of Shem fell the Orient, and his share extended lengthwise as far as India and breadthwise (from east to south) as far as Phinocorura, including Persia and Bactria, as well as Syria, Media (which lies beside the Euphrates River), Babylon, Cordyna, Assyria, Mesopotamia, Arabia the Ancient, Elymais, India, Arabia the Mighty, Coelesyria, Commagene, and all Phoenicia.«/i»"«u»[6]
«/u»
«b» Indo-Iranians
«/b»According to «u»Abulgazi «/u», Shem's original land was Iran while Japheth's was the country called "Kuttup Shamach," said to be the name of the regions between the Caspian Sea and India.«u»[7]«/u»
According to Armenian tradition, Dr. Hales is quoted saying, "«i»To the sons of Shem was alloted the middle region of the earth viz., Palestine, Syria, Assyria, Samaria (Shinar?) Babel (or Babylonia), Persia and Hedjaz (Arabia)«/i».«u»[8]«/u»
In «i»Mystery of the Ages«/i», by Dr. James Modlish, it is said that India is inhabited by Shemites.«u»[9]«/u»
«u»Hisham Ibn al-Kalbi «/u», a 19th century Arab historian, states that al-Hind and al-Sind [(Sindh)Pakistan] are of «u»Ophir «/u», the son of «u»Joktan «/u».«u»[10]«/u» «u»Isidore of Seville «/u» (c. 635) had also made Joktan the ancestor of Indians and Pakistanis; his material was based on earlier enumerations made by Jerome and Josephus, who had stated that Joktan's descendants "inhabited from Cophen, an Indian river, and in part of Asia adjoining to it."
«b»African
«/b»In Genesis, while «u»Sheba «/u» and «u»Seba «/u»are listed among descendants of «u»Cush «/u» son of Ham in 10:7, another «i»Sheba«/i» is listed as a son of Joktan, son of Eber in 10:28. These names are associated with Semitic tribes on both sides of the Red Sea in «u»Yemen «/u» and «u»Eritrea «/u» (See «u»Sabaeans «/u»). This situation may reflect a combined Hamito-Semitic ancestry postulated for Ethiopian peoples.
«b»Racial connotations
«/b»
Some writers have associated Noah's sons with different skin colors or alleged races. For instance the Jewish text «i»Pirqei R. Eliezer«/i», depicts God as dividing the earth among Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japhet,«u»[11]«/u» and attributing different skin colors to them (literally, \emdash blessing" them with different skin colors): light colored skin for the Japhetites, medium dark or brown for the Semites, and very dark or black for the Hamites.
This passage from «i»Pirqei R. Eliezer«/i», a writing which was composed in Israel after the Islamic conquest, is paralleled in an Arabic text of approximately the same period. The historian abar (d. 923) quotes Ibn Abbas (d. 686-8) as saying:
«i»Born to Noah were Shem, whose descendants were tawny-white (bay wa-adma); Ham, whose descendants were black with hardly any whiteness (saw wa-bay qal and Japheth, whose descendants were reddish-white (al- wal- umra.)\ul«/i»[12]«/u»
From the same author also comes his commentary of Gen 5:32:
" «i»'And Noah begat Shem and Ham and Japheth.' That is Shem is the father of the swarthy, and Ham of the blacks, and Japheth of the whites.«/i»" Then on the commentary on Gen 10:32, "...the red [smqry'] sons of Japheth,... the black sons of Ham,... and the swarthy sons of Shem."
The tradition is repeated in the 13th century by the Christian Ibn al- Ibr (Bar Hebraeus), known for the \emdash fidelity with which he reproduces earlier writers. Again in another work, Bar Hebraeus speaks of Noah dividing the world among his three sons, with Ham getting the Land of the Blacks (s Shem the Land of the Browns (sumra), and Japheth the Land of the Reds («u»[13]«/u»
"«i»According to ISBE, Shem means "dusky", and Japheth means "fair.«/i»" (McKissick, Beyond Roots. P. 108).«u»[14]«/u»
According to Armenian tradition, Shem had the region of the tawny.«u»[15]«/u»
Josiah Priest (1788\endash 1851) believed that Shem, because he was a descendant in the Adamic line, and because "Adam" means «i»reddish«/i» in Hebrew, that Shem too was of the "«u»reddish«/u» race". Further, he believe that because Christ was a descendant in the line of Shem, that Christ was of "copper-colored stock".«u»[16]
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«b»References
«u»1. ^\ulnone«/b» «u»Book of Jasher «/u» «u»Chapter 7:15 «/u»
\ul«b»2. ^\ulnone«/b» «u»<http://www.freemaninstitute.com/RTGham.htm>«/u»
«b»3«/b». ^ \ul\b\i«sup»a\ulnone\b0\i0«/sup» \ul\b\i«sup»b\ulnone\b0\i0«/sup» «u»Book of Jasher «/u» «u»Chapter 7:16 «/u»
«b»4«/b». ^ \ul\b\i«sup»a\ulnone\b0\i0«/sup» \ul\b\i«sup»b\ulnone\b0\i0«/sup» «u»Book of Jasher «/u» «u»Chapter 7:17 «/u»
\ul«b»5. ^\ulnone«/b» \ul«i»Prophetic Geography and the Time of the End, emphasis added <http://www.british-israel.ca/britishisraelism_utterly_refute.htm>\ulnone«/i»
\ul«b»6. ^\ulnone«/b» Serge A. Zenkovsky's, \ul«i»Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales \ulnone«/i» Revised and Enlarged Edition. (NY: Meridian Books, 1974)
\ul«b»7. ^\ulnone«/b» P. 94, «i»Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan«/i»
\ul«b»8. ^\ulnone«/b» P. 27 «i»Assyria: Her Manners and Customs, Arts and Arms: Restored from Her Monuments«/i» By Philip
\ul«b»9. ^\ulnone«/b» «i»Mystery of the Ages«/i», by Dr. James Modlish
\ul«b»10 ^\ulnone«/b» p. 1769 «i»A dictionary of the Bible comprising its antiquities, biography, geography, and natural history.«/i» by William Smith, John Mee Fuller
\ul«b»11 ^\ulnone«/b» [The names of Noah's sons were prophetic. Shem signifies name or renown (the Scriptures have been given to us through the family of Shem, and Christ was of that family); Ham signifies hot or black (his descendants mainly peopled Africa); and Japheth signifies either fair or enlarged (his descendants are the white-faced Europeans, who have gone forth and established colonies in all the other grand divisions of the globe).]
\ul«b»12 ^\ulnone«/b» [Tarikh al- abar ed. M.J. de Goeje, 1:199. A little later (p. 220) abar repeats this tradition, again in the name of Ibn Abbas, but this time has \emdash tawny with hardly any whiteness" (udma wa-bay qal for Ham instead of \emdash black with hardly any whiteness." My translation of abar color terms follows Lane, who notes that applied to human complexion adam means \emdash tawny or dark-complexioned, syn. asmar," umra means whiteness, and implies some mix of red and white, the common classification for a light-skinned complexion (Lane, «i»An Arabic-English Lexicon«/i», pp. 37a, 640c [see also 642a, a mar], and 1581b).]
\ul«b»13 ^\ulnone«/b» [M. Sprengling and W.C. Graham, ed., Barhebraeus' Scholia on the Old Testament, pp. 34-35 and 44-45. Bar Hebraeus' father was a Jewish convert to Christianity (thus the name). The quotation is from J.B. Segal, «i»The Encyclopedia of Islam«/i», second edition, 3:805, s.v. Ibn al- Ibr
\ul«b»14 ^\ulnone«/b» McKissick, Beyond Roots. P. 108)
\ul«b»15 ^\ulnone«/b» P. 162 «i»Christmastide: Its History, Festivities, and Carols«/i» By William Sandys
\ul«b»16 ^\ulnone«/b» «i»The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000«/i» By Colin Kidd
- (Research):http://fabpedigree.com/s096/f203320.htm
the «i»Anglo-Saxon Chronicle «/i»shows Shem as father of Bedwig); progenitor of Asia
Born 2165 AM
Died 2765 AM
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Geographic identifications of Flavius Josephus, c. 100 AD; Japheth's sons shown in red, Ham's sons in blue, Shem's sons in green. |
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- [S421] Laurence Gardner, Bloodline of the Holy Grail.
- [S401] Albert F. Schmuhl The Royal Line.
- [S399] Stevens, Luke, Line of Adam.
- [S422] The Holy Bible, (Genesis, King James Version., 1611)., (Genesis, King James Version., 1611).
- [S400] http://www.ancestrees.com/pedigree/5056.htm.
- [S36] Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England(B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk), Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).
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