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Japheth
Japheth | |
|---|---|
 "Japhet third son of Noah", as depicted in Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum (c. 1553) | |
| Children | Gomer Magog Madai Javan Tubal Meshech Tiras |
| Parent | Noah |
Japheth /ˈdʒeɪfɛθ/ (Hebrew: יֶפֶת Yép̄eṯ, in pausa יָפֶת Yā́p̄eṯ; Greek: Ἰάφεθ Iápheth; Latin: Iafeth, Iapheth, Iaphethus, Iapetus; Arabic: يافث Yāfith) is one of the three sons of Noah in the Book of Genesis, in which he plays a role in the story of Noah's drunkenness and the curse of Ham, and subsequently in the Table of Nations as the ancestor of the peoples of the Aegean Sea, Anatolia, Caucasus, Greece, and elsewhere in Eurasia.[1] In medieval and early modern European tradition he was considered to be the progenitor of the European peoples.[2][3][4]
- ^ Hunt 1990, p. 430.
- ^ Reynolds, Susan (October 1983). "Medieval Origines Gentium and the Community of the Realm". History. 68 (224). Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell: 375–390. doi:10.1111/j.1468-229X.1983.tb02193.x. JSTOR 24417596.
- ^ Javakhishvili, Ivane (1950), Historical-Ethnological problems of Georgia, the Caucasus and the Near East. Tbilisi, pp. 130–135 (in Georgian).
- ^ Kidd 2004, pp. 28–31.
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