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To: SunkenCiv
I believe that S(h)emites and Ar(a)menians are of the same line of descent down from Noah and his wife.

See Genesis 10:22 and 1 Chronicles 1:17 and their contexts that affirm my conclusions. Of course, Jews and Arabs are also both Shemites.

From the Biblical information, one may also find that the "Magi" that came to worship Jesus in Bethlehem when he was about two years old, were from Padan-Aram, from a province of the Imperium Romanum Anatolia region, now called Turkey. Abram's brother Laban lived in Harran, which since the Moslems took over, was abandoned. That is an area of Turkey adjoining what used to be Armenia.

Aram's name became pretty popular among the Hebrews/Jews, it seems. Appears in many generations listed in the Bible.

(With all respect and appreciation due to your many achievements in archaeological matters, SC.)

34 posted on 11/27/2024 10:31:17 PM PST by imardmd1 (To learn is to live; the joy of living: to teach. Fiat Lux!)
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To: imardmd1; SunkenCiv

Imardmd1 - note that the term “Armenia” and “Armenian” are EXOnyms i.e. words that OUTSIDERS give for that place and its peoples.

The term that “Armenians” use for themselves is “Hay” - derived from Hayk, the patriarch of the Armenians and great-great-grandson of Noah AND they call their land “Hayastan”.

Note that “stan” is the IraniC term for land - indicating the closeness between the IraniC and Armenian peoples


44 posted on 11/28/2024 1:42:37 AM PST by Cronos
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To: imardmd1; SunkenCiv

From Biblical information the Magi (Magi is the term for Zoroastrian “priests” ) came from the Parthian (Iranian) empire, not from Anatolia.


45 posted on 11/28/2024 1:43:57 AM PST by Cronos
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