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CUSH , the eldest son of See also:

Ham, in the See also:Bible, from whom seems to have been derived the name of the " See also:Land of Cush," commonly rendered " See also:Ethiopia " by the See also:Septuagint and by the See also:Vulgate. The locality of the land of Cush has See also:long been a much-vexed question. See also:Bochart maintained that it was exclusively in See also:Arabia; Schulthess and Gesenius held that it should be sought for nowhere but in See also:Africa (see ETHIOPIA). Others again, like See also:Michaelis and Rosenmuller, have supposed that the name Cush was applied to tracts of See also:country both in Arabia and in Africa, but the defective See also:condition of the See also:ancient knowledge of countries and peoples, as also the See also:probability of See also:early migrations of " Cushite " tribes (carrying with them their name), will See also:account for the See also:main facts. The existence of an See also:African Cush cannot reasonably be questioned, though the See also:term is employed in the Old Testament with some See also:latitude. The African Cush covers Upper See also:Egypt, and extendssouthwards from the first See also:cataract (Syene, Ezek. See also:xxix. 1o). That the term was also applied to parts of Arabia is evident from Gen. x. 7, where Cush is the " See also:father " of certain tribal and ethnical designations, all of which point very clearly to Arabia, with the very doubtful exception of Seba, which See also:Josephus (See also:Ant. 2) identifies with Meroe.1 Even in the 5th See also:century A.D. the Himyarites, in the See also:south of Arabia, were styled by Syrian writers Cushaeans and Ethiopians. Moreover, the Babylonian See also:inscriptions mention the Kashshi, an Elamite See also:race, whose name has been equated with the classical KoavaZoi, KLQaux, and it has been held that this affords a more appropriate explanation of Cush (perhaps rather Kash), the ancestor of (the Babylonian) See also:Nimrod in Gen. x. 8.

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evidence is lacking, it, seems extremely probable that several references to Cush in the Old Testament cannot refer to Ethiopia, despite the likelihood that considerable confusion existed in. the minds of early writers. The Cushite invasion in 2 Chron. xiv. (see See also:Asa) is intelligible if the See also:historical See also:foundation for the See also:story be a See also:raid by Arabians, but in xvi. 8 the inclusion of Libyans shows that the enemy was subsequently supposed to be African. In several passages the See also:interpretation is See also:bound up with that of See also:Mizraim (q.v.), and depends in See also:general upon the question whether Ethiopia at a given See also:time enjoyed the prominence given to it. On Num. xii. I see See also:JETHRO; and consult H. Winckler, Keil. u. das alte Test., 3rd ed., p. 144 sq., and lm Kampfe um den See also:alten Orient, ii. pp. 36 seq., and the literature cited under MIZRAIM. (S. A.

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