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==Archaeology== |
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The Egyptian form of their name is preserved in the inscriptions of the [[Temple of Kom Ombo]] as the region name ''Kasluḥet''.<ref name="Sayce2009">{{cite book|author=Archibald Henry Sayce|title=The "Higher Criticism" and the Verdict of the Monuments|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-AsTCT0zOsC|accessdate=28 November 2010|year=2009|publisher=General Books LLC|isbn=978-1-150-17885-6|page=91}}</ref> In the Aramaic ''[[Targum]]''s their region is called ''Pentpolitai'' understood to be derived from the Greek ''[[Pentapolis (North Africa)|Pentapolis]]'' which locates the area as the north west in what is now the [[Cyrenaica]] region of [[Libya]].<ref name="ORT"/> Another name for their region is ''Pekosim'' used in [[Bereshit Rabbah]] 37.<ref name="ORT"/> In [[Saadia Gaon]]'s [[Judeo-Arabic]] translation of the [[Pentateuch]], the ''[[Sa'idi people]]'' (i.e. the people of Upper Egypt) are listed in the position of the Casluhim in {{bibleverse||Genesis|10:14|HE}},<ref>{{cite book |last=Saadia Gaon|first=|author-link=Saadia Gaon|title=Rabbi Saadia Gaon's Commentaries on the Pentateuch|editor=[[Yosef Qafih]]|edition=4|year=1984|publisher=[[Mossad Harav Kook]]|page=33 (note 37) |location=Jerusalem|language=he|oclc=232667032}}</ref> while ''Albiyim'' is listed in the position of [[Pathrusim]], however the ordering of Casluhim and Pathrusim sometimes vary in translations <ref name="ORT">''Navigating the Bible'', World ORT, 2000, commentary ''Pathrusim'', ''Casluhim''</ref> and the mainstream understanding is that is the Pathrusim who are the Sahidic people and the Casluhim the people of eastern Libya. |
The Egyptian form of their name is preserved in the inscriptions of the [[Temple of Kom Ombo]] as the region name ''Kasluḥet''.<ref name="Sayce2009">{{cite book|author=Archibald Henry Sayce|title=The "Higher Criticism" and the Verdict of the Monuments|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-AsTCT0zOsC|accessdate=28 November 2010|year=2009|publisher=General Books LLC|isbn=978-1-150-17885-6|page=91}}</ref> In the Aramaic ''[[Targum]]''s their region is called ''Pentpolitai'' understood to be derived from the Greek ''[[Pentapolis (North Africa)|Pentapolis]]'' which locates the area as the north west in what is now the [[Cyrenaica]] region of [[Libya]].<ref name="ORT"/> Another name for their region is ''Pekosim'' used in [[Bereshit Rabbah]] 37.<ref name="ORT"/> In [[Saadia Gaon]]'s [[Judeo-Arabic]] translation of the [[Pentateuch]], the ''[[Sa'idi people]]'' (i.e. the people of Upper Egypt) are listed in the position of the Casluhim in {{bibleverse||Genesis|10:14|HE}},<ref>{{cite book |last=Saadia Gaon|first=|author-link=Saadia Gaon|title=Rabbi Saadia Gaon's Commentaries on the Pentateuch|editor=[[Yosef Qafih]]|edition=4|year=1984|publisher=[[Mossad Harav Kook]]|page=33 (note 37) |location=Jerusalem|language=he|oclc=232667032}}</ref> while ''Albiyim'' is listed in the position of [[Pathrusim]], however the ordering of Casluhim and Pathrusim sometimes vary in translations <ref name="ORT">''Navigating the Bible'', World ORT, 2000, commentary ''Pathrusim'', ''Casluhim''</ref> and the mainstream understanding is thatit is the Pathrusim who are the Sahidic people and the Casluhim the people of eastern Libya. |
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==Ancient literature== |
==Ancient literature== |
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The CasluhimorCasluhites (Hebrew: כסלחים) were an ancient Egyptian people mentioned in the Bible and related literature.
According to the Book of Genesis (Genesis 10:14) and the Books of Chronicles (1 Chronicles 1:12), the Casluhim were descendants of Mizraim (Egypt) son of Ham, out of whom originated the Philistines.
The Egyptian form of their name is preserved in the inscriptions of the Temple of Kom Ombo as the region name Kasluḥet.[1] In the Aramaic Targums their region is called Pentpolitai understood to be derived from the Greek Pentapolis which locates the area as the north west in what is now the Cyrenaica region of Libya.[2] Another name for their region is Pekosim used in Bereshit Rabbah 37.[2]InSaadia Gaon's Judeo-Arabic translation of the Pentateuch, the Sa'idi people (i.e. the people of Upper Egypt) are listed in the position of the Casluhim in Genesis 10:14,[3] while Albiyim is listed in the position of Pathrusim, however the ordering of Casluhim and Pathrusim sometimes vary in translations [2] and the mainstream understanding is that it is the Pathrusim who are the Sahidic people and the Casluhim the people of eastern Libya.
Josephus mentions the Casluhim in his Jewish Antiquities I, vi, 2 as one of the Egyptian peoples whose cities were destroyed during the Ethiopic War and who thus disappeared from history. Arab historian Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), citing Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli, wrote that the Berbers of North Africa were descended from Casluhim, the son of Mizraïm.[4]
