Lud son of Shem
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- For other uses of the name Lud, see Lud
Lud (לוּד) was a son of Shem and grandson of Noah, according to Genesis 10 (the "Table of Nations"). Lud should not be confused with the Ludim, said there to be descended from Mizraim.
The descendants of Lud are usually, following Josephus, connected with various Anatolian peoples, particularly Lydia (Assyrian Luddu) and their predecessors, the Luwians; cf. geographic references to the 'Mountains of Lud' (Anatolia) in Jubilees, and Herodotus' assertion (Histories i. 7) that the Lydians were first so named after their king, Lydus (Λυδός).
However, it has been conjectured by others[1] that Lud's descendants spread to areas of the far-east beyond Elam, or that they were identified with the Lullubi. Some scholars have also associated the Biblical Lud with the Lubdu of Assyrian sources, who inhabited certain parts of western Media and Atropatene[2].
Descendants of Noah in Genesis | |
|---|---|
| Shem & Semitic | Elam • Ashur • Aram • Arpachshad • Lud |
| Ham & Hamitic | Cush • Mizraim • Phut • Canaan |
| Japheth & Japhetic | Gomer • Magog • Madai • Javan • Tubal • Meshech • Tiras |
[edit] References
- ^ "The Genetic Origin of the Nations"
- ^ Bezalel Bar-Kochva, The Seleucid Army: Organisation and Tactics in the Great Campaigns, 318 pp., Cambridge University Press, 1976, ISBN 0521206677, p.50
