 Aft 2452 B.C. - Yes, date unknown
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| Name |
Japheth |
| Birth |
Aft 2452 B.C. |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Yes, date unknown |
| Notes |
- «b»http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal03175«/b»
«b»http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps11/ps11_089.htm«/b»
Japhet was the eldest son of Noah. He had fifteen sons, amongst whom he divided Europe and the part of Asia which his father had allotted to him.
«b»Part II of Irish Pedigrees, or The origin and stem of the Irish nation, by John O'Hart, published 1892, pages 44-55
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«b»http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Noah
«/b»Japheth is traditionally seen as the ancestor of Europeans, as well as some more eastern nations; thus «i»Japhetic«/i» has been used as a synonym for «u»Caucasians «/u». «i»Caucasian«/i» itself derives in part from the assumption that the tribe of Japheth developed its distinctive racial characteristics in the «u»Caucasus «/u», where «u»Mount Ararat «/u» is located. The term Japhetic was also applied by the early «u»linguists «/u» («u»brothers Grimm «/u», «u»William Jones «/u», «u»Rasmus C. Rask «/u» and others) to what later became known as the «u»Indo-European «/u» language group, on the assumption that, if descended from Japheth, the principal languages of Europe would have a common origin, which apart from «u»Finno-Ugric «/u», «u»Kartvelian «/u», «u»Pontic «/u», «u»Nakh «/u», «u»Dagestan «/u», and «u»Basque «/u», appears to be the case. In a conflicting sense, the term was also used by the «u»Soviet «/u» linguist «u»Nikolai Marr «/u» in his «u»Japhetic theory «/u» intended to demonstrate that the languages of the Caucasus formed part of a once-widespread pre-Indo-European language group.
In classical times, and among a minority of modern students, various arguments have been proposed that the Roman deity «u»Jupiter «/u» may have been a deified Japheth, and further, that he became known in Greek as '«u»Iapetos «/u»', and in «u»Sanskrit «/u» as '«u»Pra-Japati «/u»'. Modern linguists dispute whether there are any actual connections between 'Pra-Japati', which translates as «i»Lord of Creatures«/i», «i»Iapetos«/i», «i»Jupiter«/i», a corruption of \ul«i»Dyeus «/u» Pater«/i», meaning 'sky father', and «i»Japheth«/i», meaning «i»open«/i», and attempts to connect these deities with Japheth are often regarded as poor scholarship and «u»folk etymology «/u».
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Biblical statement that «i»God shall enlarge Japheth«/i» (Genesis 9:27) was used by some imperialists as a justification for the "enlargement" of European territories through «u»Imperialism «/u», interpreted as part of God's plan for the world.
- (Research):«b»http://fabpedigree.com/s012/f010441.htm
Progenitor of Europe and Central Asia
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| Person ID |
I7947 |
Glenn Cook Family |
| Last Modified |
4 May 2015 |
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| Sources |
- [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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