Tiras

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Tiras ( Hebrew תִירָס) is the youngest son of Japhet in the Bible . 1. Genesis 10: 2 EU and 1 Chronicles 1, 5 EU include Gomer , Magog , Madai , Javan , Tubal , Meshech and Tiras than the children of Japheth. All of the tribes mentioned are from the north.

Flavius ​​Josephus uses Tiras as an example in the 6th chapter of his Jewish Antiquities , in which he describes the descendants of Noah as namesake. He called the Thirasians ruled by him, from which the Greeks made Thracians . This derivation can also be found in the etymology of Isidore of Seville (9.2.31): “ Thiras, ex quo Thraces; quorum non satis inmutatum vocabulum est, quasi tiraces ".

Some modern scholars also equate Tiras with the Thracians; however, it is unlikely that these tribes were already in the focus of 7th and 6th century chroniclers. Other researchers propose the thesis that it was about the Tyrsener (Tyrsenier, Tyrrhener) of Herodotus, the Turuscha (Turscha) or another of the sea ​​peoples ; however, the Tyrsenians can only be grasped historically much later than the Turuscha.

literature

  • Benedictus Niese (Ed.): Flavius ​​Josephus, Jewish antiquities. Berlin 1888/1895.