Japhetites

Linguistically, Japheth's influence extends beyond the religious realm.

The Indo-European language family, which includes languages such as English, German, Russian, Ukrainian, French, Spanish, and many other European languages, is also referred to as the Japhethite language family.

This naming refers to the biblical ancestor of the European peoples, reinforcing the connection between biblical genealogy and the formation of Western civilizations.

This relationship between linguistics and biblical tradition demonstrates that the cultural and historical traits of European peoples were not only recorded in sacred texts but also left deep marks on how languages and identities were shaped over the centuries.

In these passages, we find Japheth's lineage, which includes his seven sons and grandsons.

Through the names of these descendants, it is possible to trace the origins of the ancient Europeans.

In antiquity, the Israelites themselves referred to the European peoples as Japhethites And in some cases, as Javanites, especially when referring to the inhabitants of the region of Greece, who were called the children of Javan.

In the Book of Genesis, the descendants of Japheth are mentioned by name.

The term Ashkenazim originates from the biblical figure Ashkenaz, mentioned as the first son of Gomer, grandson of Japheth.

Japheth, in turn, was one of Noah's sons, recognized as the patriarch of the Japhetic populations as described in the Table of Nations in Genesis chapter ten.

Gomer's name is often associated with the Cimmerians, an ancient people.

The name Ashkenaz is generally understood to be derived from the Assyrian Ashkuza, which appears in cuneiform as Ashkuzai or Ishkuzai.

"Ham and Cana are joined by blood to Shem.

Therefore, although we Japhethites are somewhat more foreign, yet we have come into fellowship and unity of Christ by the same right as the Assyrians and the Egyptians." Now, this is an amazing thing, that Lu- that Luther says that, that you have these three sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and that, and that Jesus wanted to be born not just from Shem, but also from Ham.

And so he arranged it so that there's all these Gentile Hamite moms who come into his own lineage so that he can claim them all.

And then Luther says, "Now we're from Japheth," who isn't included in the...

There's no descendant of Japheth who's included in the genealogy of Christ, but still the Lord kind of lets us in.

[laughs] So far, so, I, I mean, so far from giving, like, priority to the Japhethites, he, he says, look, he's giving, he's, he's assu- he's assured if you're from Ham, the Lord Jesus wants you to know that it doesn't matter.

He's got you.

He's got, by grace, by faith, and also by blood, He has you, that you're part of his, his genealogy.

Um, think about, like, the Dominican Republic or Cuba.

Um, and the same is true for several major Asian populations, right? So Koreans and Japanese share ancestral lineages that are rooted in the Japhethite migrations after the flood, making them, again, falling into that white category as a macro race level.

Um, so again, the word race is the linguistic tool used to describe related people groups.

Generally in our context, it's Black, it's white.

Um, but people descended from Japheth, the European and white populations, uh, they average somewhere around 100, even up to, you know, on average, depends on certain countries, is 105.

Now, people that descended from Shem, uh, Middle Eastern Semitic peoples, uh, you know, some Jews have higher I- IQs.

Uh, some Arabs are somewhere between Africans and Japhethites.

If you just look at...

Um, think about, like, the Dominican Republic or Cuba.

Um, and the same is true for several major Asian populations, right? So Koreans and Japanese share ancestral lineages that are rooted in the Japhethite migrations after the flood, making them, again, falling into that white category as a macro race level.

Um, so again, the word race is the linguistic tool used to describe related people groups.

Generally in our context, it's Black, it's white.

Um, but people descended from Japheth, the European and white populations, uh, they average somewhere around 100 even up to, you know, on average, depends on certain countries, as 105.

Now, people that descended from Shem, uh, Middle Eastern Semitic peoples, uh, you know, some Jews have higher I- IQs.

Uh, some Arabs are somewhere between Africans and Japhethites if you just look at...

You can look up all of this IQ data and understand some of this, but they often fall somewhere in between.

Of the earth.

Which, yeah, so this is, when you look at the Old Testament, you have this breakout of, you have the Japhethites, which are generally the white people.

You have, but you also have the Shemites, or as we know them as the Semites.

which create the Arab Jewish world.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And this is so having a conversation around like, again, understanding like the Japanese historically would be viewed as Japhethites, white people.

Now, that's why their skin is light, right? They're northern peoples.

But Blumenbach later, 1795, fell back on Lenin's four varieties, which however he distributed somewhat differently, assigning to the Caucasic most of the Europe, Cisgenic Asia, and the region stretching northward from Amir Basin to the Mongolic Transgenic Asian north to the Amir, with the islanders and great part of the Austral lands to the Ethiopic Africa, and to the American all the New World, except the northern coastlands, that is, the Eskimo domain, which he includes in the Mongolic division.

Then ensued a period of orthodox reaction against the Lemkarian ideas, headed by Cuvier, 1773 to 1838, who held by fixality of species, but inconsistently admitted three races, the Caucasic, Mongolic, and African, supposed to answer to the biblical Japhetic, Semite, and Hamatic families.

In 1801, Viriery, 1775 to 1840, reduced Cuvier's three divisions to two distinct species, white and black, each with three main races or subspecies, which again prized a number of secondary groups.

But this could not satisfy thoroughgoing polygenicists.

Bory de Saint-Vincent, who in 1827 discovered 15 species, including such nebulous groups such as Cathays, Neptunians, Columbians.

Lastly, the American school, which is hands of Morton Glilden, Knox, Azgazi, and others brought about an inevitable reaction by threatening to increase the number of species indefinitely.

Other groupings, which were marked by greater sobriety, and which still possess some historic interest, were those of Hamilton Smith, Caucasic Mongolic Tropical, Latham, Japhetic Mongoloid Atlantiades, Carl G. Karis, four divisions somewhat fantastically named, Nakathamessen, Nightmen, the Negro, Tagmenchesen, Damon, the Caucasian, Ostlich Dashmergenschen, men of the Eastern Twilight, Mongoloid Melo-Hindu peoples, and the Westlich Dammerschmermen, men of the Western Twilight and the American Aborigines, and Preschel, Australian with Tasmanian, Papuan, Mongoloid with Mayo Polynesian and American, Dravidian, Hottentot with Bushmen, Negro, Mediterranean, i.e. Blumenbach's Caucasian.

A fresh element of confusion, which still clings to the ethnological studies, arose out of Frederick Siegel's little treatise on the language and wisdom of the Hindus, 1808, which was later declared by Max Mueller to have revealed a new world and to have shown what unexpected services anthropology might derive from the science of language.