Talk:Shem

Iranians

The Bible teaches us Median peoples an Iranian people descend from Japheth's son Madai. - Genesis 10:2.

That's partially true. Read the following pages:

• Madai
• Midian
• Medan
• Elam

The descendants of Madai comprise a portion of the Iranian population. The descendants of Madai first dwelt in northwest Iran and were known as the Medes. They later merged with the Shemitic descendants of Elam and Medan to form the Achaemenid Empire. The descendants of Madai became associated and linked up with the Medanites who invaded their territory from the west. Thus the names Madai and Medes were used interchangeably, but the Medanites formed the ruling class. The empire of the Medes is often referred to in textbooks as the Amadai-Mada-Medes empire (Madai, Midian, and Medan were closely associated with each other). The Amadai were descendants of Madai who were subject to the Medanite Medes, the ruling class of the Empire. The tribes of the Median Empire were: the Busae, Paretaceni, Struchates, Arizanti, Budii, and Magi. Some were descended from Medan, others from Madai. The descendants of Elam, the son of Shem, dwelt in south-west Persia and today comprise a large portion of the Iranian population. -- CelticCreationist 14:58, 26 June 2012 (PDT)

Rhol has the direction wrong

Babel was inhabited by everyone before God stopped that project. The Sumerians however where Hametic, he should know that since it's he who identified Nimrod with Enmerkar, the first Sumerien king, so clearly the Sumerians where of Kush who built Kish. The Semites came latter, the Akkadians, Assyrians, Elamites (and Amurites have Semitic features inspire of being Canaanite). And the Kassidim (Chaldeans) came even latter, the Ur of Abraham was Urkesh not the Sumerian Ur as popularly thought.--MithirandirOlorin 07:41, 26 April 2013 (PDT)