Literature of the Jews
"The first embrace the northern countries, Cimmerians, Ripaeans, Armenians, Scythes, Medes, Ionians, Hellenists, Tartessians, Cyprians, Rhodians, Tibareneans, Mossians and Tyrrhenians. Hamites are the nations of the south, the inhabitants of Ethiopia and Meroë, the eastern Africans, the western Arabians, the people of Saba, Dedan, Babylonia, Egypt, Lybia, Thebais, Colchis, the Philistines, Cretes, Canaanites or Phoenicians. Besides the Hebrews, the following are considered to be Semites, viz. the Elymaeans, Assyrians, Lydians, Aramaeans (Syrians), the people of the countries which reach to the confines of the Arian's (Arrapachitis) and finally, those of south and southeastern Arabia (Hadramaut, Sanaa, Ofir, Mesene, Nedsjd)."
