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Semitic people or Semites is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group formerly used in connection with ancient and modern peoples of the Middle East including Akkadians, Arabs, Ammonit
In his 1771 book Introduction to Synchronic Universal History (German: Einleitung in die Synchronistische Universalhistorie) Johann Christoph Gatterer depicts the first historical ethnology of the world separated into the biblical sons of Noah: Semites, Hamites and Japhetites. Gatterer's view is that modern history has shown the truth of the biblical prediction of Japhetite supremacy (Genesis 9:25–27). Click the image for a transcription of the text.
1879 statute of the Antisemitic League, the organization which first popularized the term
Arameans
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The Arameans, or Aramaeans, were a tribal Semitic people in the ancient Near East, first documented in historical sources from the late 12th century BCE. Their homeland, often referred to as the land
Semitic people
…group formerly used in connection with ancient and modern peoples of the Middle East including Akkadians (Assyrians and Babylonians), Arabs, Ammonites, Arameans, Canaanites, Edomites, Israelites, Jews, Judahites, Moabites, Phoenicians, Samaritans, and others. Use of the terminology is now largely confined to…
Sin zir Ibni inscription
Si Gabbor stele
Aramean king Hazael of Aram-Damascus
Illustration by Gustave Doré from the 1866 La Sainte Bible depicting an Israelite victory over the army of Ben-Hadad, described in 1 Kings 20:26–34