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Title: Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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gris. The name of his elder son, Pe-leg, signifies division, because inhis time the earth was divided. Thename of Salah, the father of Eber, sig-nifies departure, and evidently refersto a title which that patriarch receivedin departing, or setting out, with histribe for a new home. Everything per-tains to migration. If the meaning ofthe name Arphaxad has not been ascer-tained, the position of his tribe at least isknown. Arphaxad is a mountain districtof Southern Armenia, between lakes finally of his really serious battle withChedorlaomer, or according to the As-syrian spelling, Kudur-Lagamer, is suffi-ciently striking and impressive. Kudur-Lagamer was king of Elam, or ratherthe Elamite king of Chaldaea, and hadfollowed the Abrahamic tribe out of theEast, with the hope of falling upon it andgathering great spoil. There is littledoubt that this Elamite dynasty in Chal-daea was of Hamitic origin; and the de-parting Abraham was thus the object ofrace antipathy, as well as the possessor of
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LAND OF THE ARPHAXAD.—View of Kopans Kale.—Drawn by T. Deyrolle, from nature. Van and Urumiah; and there is no doubtthat the primitive clan of this ancientSemite had its original locus at this place.Nahor, the son of Serug, means theriver, that is, the Euphrates—and so ofscores of other proper names referringto Mesopotamian localities or to familyor tribal movements in that resrion. The pastoral picture which is drawnContact of the in Genesis of Abraham onhis way to the PromisedLand, and of the troubleswhich beset him on his journey, of hiscontention with his kinsman Lot, and Abrahamites■with the racesof Canaan. flocks and herds. According to the He-brew account of this migration, whichwas the origin of Israelitish greatness inPalestine, there was a division of thefamily which appears to have been onthe borders of Canaan, about the timeof the invasion. Ishmael, the oldestson of the patriarch, had married anEgyptian bondwoman and had becomethe head of a tribe. The troublesarisi

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