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To: hosepipe
Herod was an Edomite, not Jewish.
9 posted on 12/23/2011 7:09:01 PM PST by Yulee (Village of Albion)
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To: Yulee
Herod was an Edomite, not Jewish.

The Hellenistic and Roman name of Edom was Idumaea. They and the Nabataeans, I have read in different places, were proto- Arabs and therefore Semites like the Hebrews.

I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, that the Midianites and Amalekites were other names for proto-Arabic bedouin peoples.

71 posted on 12/25/2011 4:54:08 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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