Talk:Arvadites

Qemant people
They claim Arvadite descent, I'll copy below part of the Wikipedia page, and then some more educated then me can refine it from a Creationist POV and decide if it's worth adding to the Article. Sinite and Zemeratie are mentioned as well, perhaps their pages could be updated too.--MithirandirOlorin 21:26, 26 May 2011 (PDT)

"The origins of the Qemant are unknown, for they lack a written history. According to oral tradition, the founder of the Qemant was a man called Anayer, who is said to have been a grandson of Canaan, son of Ham, son of Noah. After seven years of famine in his own country, he is said to have come to the area of Lake Tana, in Ethiopia. As he traveled with his wife and children, he met the founder of the Beta Israel, who tradition states were traveling in the same direction.

According to Wember Muluna Marsha, they were from the same country (which they called Canaan).

As Anayer traveled on the journey with his wife and children, he met the founder of the Beta Israel, also traveling on the same journey with his wife and children. A marriage alliance was discussed between the two groups, but it did not succeed.

—Muluna Marsha, The Sign and the Seal, interview by Graham Hancock, Aykel 1990

According to the early 19th century missionary Samuel Gobat, their Amharic-speaking neighbors considered the Qemant boudas, or sorcerers, along with "the Falashas or Jews (Beta Israel), most Mussulamns (Muslims), and some Christians." Gobat knew little more about this "small Pagan people inhabiting the mountains in the vicinity of Gondar."[Samuel Gobat, Journal of Three years' Residence in Abyssinia, 1851 (New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969), p. 263]

According to traditional Amharic-speaking historians, the Qemant were descended from Canaan through his son Arwadi ('the Arvadite') and grandson Ayner. Ayner and his wife Entela are said to have crossed from Asia into Ethiopia in 2101 BC, as one of three Canaanite groups to immigrate when Ethiopia was ruled by Cushites — the other two groups being the Shanqella (Nilo-Saharans) descended from Sini ('the Sinite'), and the Weyto descended from Samri (the 'Zemarite').[Yohannes Wolde Mariam, Yealem Tarik, 1948 p. 105-6.]"--MithirandirOlorin 21:26, 26 May 2011 (PDT)

Beta Israel means House of Israel and could refer to all Israelites and not just the Ethiopian Jews. I see the story Graham Hancok quotes as a possible confused account of Joseph's 7 year Famine. My interpretation of Bible chronology places Joseph's brother coming to Egypt (During the 2nd year of the Famine) in 2035 B.C. a reasonably close date.--MithirandirOlorin 21:26, 26 May 2011 (PDT)

Like Bob Cornuke (And Hancock thou he's not a Christian) I do believe the Ark came to Ethiopia but not via the traditional Menelik story, which I think was invented by the Axumite kings. The Beta Israel claim descent from Dan actually, though this isn't mentioned when Discussing the Ark in Ethiopia theory the Bible does say certian key Craftsmen of the Ark where of Dan. Lining up with my interpretation of Egyptian Chronology (Seti I being Psamtik I) the Hebrews who helped him and where rewarded by being allowed to build a Temple on Elephantine (Which in Cornuke and Hancok's view held the Ark on the way to Tana Kirikos) could ave been the same people known in the Sea Peoples inscriptions as Denyen.--MithirandirOlorin 21:26, 26 May 2011 (PDT)