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Tiras |
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Yes, date unknown |
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- «b»http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Noah
«u»Tiras «/u»«/b», son of Japheth. This name is usually connected with that of «u»Thracians «/u», an ancient nation first appearing in written records around 700 BC. It has also been associated with some of the Sea Peoples such as «u»Tursha «/u» and «u»Tyrsenoi «/u», with the river «u»Tiras «/u» (Dniester), and sometimes with the Anatolian region of «u»Troas «/u», dating to the later 13th century BC. In tractate «u»Yoma «/u», of the «u»Talmud «/u», it states that Tiras is «u»Persia «/u».
«b»http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiras
Tiras«/b» was, according to «u»Genesis 10 «/u» and Chronicles 1, the last-named son of «u»Japheth «/u» who is otherwise unmentioned in the «u»Hebrew Bible «/u». According to the «u»«i»Book of Jubilees «/u»«/i», the inheritance of Tiras consisted of four large islands in the ocean. Some scholars have speculated his descendants to have been among the components of the «u»Sea Peoples «/u» known to «u»Ancient Egypt «/u» as «u»Tursha «/u» and to the Greeks as «u»Tyrsenoi [1][2]«/u».
«u»Josephus «/u» wrote that Tiras became ancestor of the "Thirasians" («u»Thracians «/u»). These were the first fair-haired people mentioned in «u»antiquity «/u» according to «u»Xenophanes«/u», and were later known as the «u»Getae «/u» according to historians beginning with «u»Herodotus «/u» (4.93, 5.3). «i»Tiras«/i» or «u»«i»Tyras «/u»«/i» in antiquity was also the name of the «u»Dniester «/u» river, and of a Greek colony situated near its mouth.
Some, including «u»Noah Webster «/u», have suggested that Tiras was worshiped by his descendants as «u»Thor «/u», the god of thunder, equating both these forms with the (Thouros) mentioned by «u»Homer «/u» as the "Mars of the Thracians". The earliest Norse sagas name Thor as an ancestral chieftain, and trace his origins to Thrace.
According to tractate «u»Yoma «/u», in the «u»Talmud «/u», Tiras is the ancestor of Persia.
The medieval rabbinic text «u»«i»Book of Jasher «/u»«/i» (7:9) records the sons of Tiras as «i»Benib, Gera, Lupirion«/i», and «i»Gilak«/i», and in 10:14, it asserts that «i»Rushash, Cushni«/i», and «i»Ongolis«/i» are among his descendants. An earlier (950 AD) rabbinic compilation, the «u»«i»Yosippon «/u»«/i», similarly claims Tiras' descendants to be the «i»Rossi«/i» of «i»Kiv«/i», i.e. «u»Kievan Rus «/u», listing them together with his brother «u»Meshech «/u»'s supposed descendants as "the Rossi; the Saqsni and the Iglesusi".
Another mediaeval Hebrew compilation, the «u»«i»Chronicles of Jerahmeel «/u»«/i», aside from quoting «i»Yosippon«/i» as above, also provides a separate tradition of Tiras' sons elsewhere, naming them as «i»Maakh, Tabel, Bal'anah, Shampla, Meah«/i», and «i»Elash«/i». This material was ultimately derived from «u»Pseudo-Philo «/u» (ca. 75 AD), extant copies of which list Tiras' sons as «i»Maac, Tabel, Ballana, Samplameac«/i», and «i»Elaz«/i».
The Persian historian «u»Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari «/u» (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.
«b»Notes
«u»1. ^«/u»«/b» «i»The Bible for Home and School«/i» Macmillan, 1909 (heavily annotated scholarly translation of Bible, comparing all known variants) p. 90
«u»«b»1. ^«/u»«/b» «i»International Standard Bible Encyclopedia«/i» (1995) p. 859
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