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This comes from User:Zestauferov. Caveat lector! If it looks bogus to you, well maybe you;re not wrong. Wetman 02:19, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Wetman your profile is a self proclaimation of your ignorance concerning contemporary bible studies so what is your point? I may not agree with those who take the bible literally but at least I do not suppress or mock their ideas. If you know something post it if it is inaccurate someone else will correct it, that is my philosophy. Zestauferov 14:57, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)
What do we mean here by 'negligeble few'? I guess we mean the entire Jewish, Muslim, and Christian world, who outside of thier views on faith and God have a enormous wealth of documents to back up the relationship of figures like Arpachshad to the Kesdim. Your argument against them amounts to nothing less than a resentment for the religious organizations themselves.--Jjzeidner 08:13, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
The problem is, Jjzeidner, that this just is not the case. True, Josephus did attempt to link Arpachshad and the Kasdim, but this should be viewed in the context of his wild speculations on events that took place early in Genesis, e.g. that one river of Eden was in India and another in Ethiopia, or that Abraham invented astronomy and taught it to the Egyptians. But, the origin of the Kasdim in the Bible appears to be from Kesed (Gen. 22:22), who together with Aram, were descended from Nahor, Abraham's brother, who resided in Aram Naharaim, i.e. Upper Mesopatamia.
Arpachshad seems to me to be an amalgamation of Arpakh and Shad. Arpakh/Arpak appears to be associated with place names of Hurrian orgin, in northern Syria and northern Mesopamia. As for the term Shad, the ultimate Semitic origin of the term appears to be "mountain". It is recalled in one of the Hebrew names for God, "El Shaddai". There seems to have been a Bronze age site in northern Syria named Shaddai, modern 'Tell eth-Thadyen', according to the Wikipedia entry.
