Shem, Ham, and Japheth After the Flood

What became of the sons of Noah after the flood is somewhat of a mystery, however, the Table of Nations listed in the 11th chapter of Genesis gives us a general idea of what happened to their descendants and in which direction they each spread. I have written four separate essays, one general and one on each son, which details much of the research that has been done to trace the Table of Nations as it appears in Genesis. The essays are too lengthy to include in this blog format, so I have included the links to them below.

It is widely believed however, that much of the Mythologies coming out of just about every ancient culture in the world relating to major and minor gods, can be traced back to Noah, his sons, or their wives and children. The second book in my, The Witness Chronicles fiction series, Table of Nations, also follows the dispersion of the children of Noah and relies heavily on the work of such world renowned researchers as George Rawlinson and Arthur C. Custance to trace the dispersal of Noah’s sons. To read my essays on each of the sons of Noah, please click on the below links:

Table of Nations General         http://thewitnesschronicles.com/Table_of_Nations.htm

Shem                                        http://thewitnesschronicles.com/Sons_of_Shem.htm

Japheth                                    http://thewitnesschronicles.com/Sons_of_Japheth.htm

Ham                                         http://thewitnesschronicles.com/Sons_of_Ham.htm

To read more of my essays on Genesis, or to learn more about my fiction books based on the stories inn Genesis, please visit my website at http://thewiitnesschronicles.com.

Migration to Shinar

Genesis 11:2 ²And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

The Bible states, in this passage that almost immediately after Noah had sent his sons away that they came to a plain in the land of Shinar. This is how we know that the sons did not disburse before this time. They all came to this place and they dwelled there together. What happened next I will deal with in my essays on The Tower of Babel and Confusion of Tongues, but we know from this passage that they all came together and dwelled together in Shinar for some period of time. Exactly how long it was before the Tower incident we cannot say, but it was probably no more than a couple of hundred years, as archeologists can detect the ages of artifacts such as the Gilgamesh tablets and other ancient Sumerian and Akkadian writings and artifacts and know that by around 2600 B.C. the legend of Gilgamesh, who is thought to be Nimrod of the Bible, was already well established and told throughout the land. If the actual events that led up to these tales took place around 3300 B.C. as shown in Chart 1 of this essay, then there was probably no more than 150 to 300 years from the flood to the confusion of languages. Another clue to the early dates is that Egypt was known to be in the very early stages of the first dynasty of Menes by around 2800 B.C. and they already had a well establish culture and language of their own by this time…

For the full text of this essay, vist http://thewitnesschronicles.com/Migration_to_Shinar.htm.

 This essay contains several charts showing the timelines and ages of the Patriarchs from Adam to Jacob using three different timeline models.

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