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conquest of the Minæans had led to a settlement in Yemen. V.$28[P2: 28]$ (J), however, presupposes the southern settlement.

(11) (, ; but elsewhere, etc.)] a merchant tribe mentioned along with Sheba in 25$1$ (= 1 Ch. 1$3$) and Ezk. 38$2$; with Tema (the modern Teima, c. 230 miles N of Medina) in Is. 21$3$, Jer. 25$32$, and G of Gn. 25$13$; and in Jer. 49$13$, Ezk. 25$23$ as a neighbour of Edom. All this points to a region in the N of Arabia; and as the only other reference (Ezk. 27$3$)—in 27$8$ the text is corrupt—is consistent with this, there is no need to postulate another Dedan on the Persian Gulf (Boch. al.) or anywhere else. Glaser (397) very suitably locates the Dedanites "in the neighbourhood of Khaibar, el-Ola, El-Hiǧr, extending perhaps beyond Teima,"—a region intersected by the trade-routes from all parts of Arabia (see the map in EB, iv. 5160); and where the name is probably perpetuated in the ruins of Daidan, W of Teima (Di.). The name occurs both in Minæan and Sabæan inscrs. (Glaser, 397 ff.; Müller, ZDMG, xxx. 122), but not in the Greek or Roman geographers.—The older tradition of J (25$13$) recognises a closer kinship of the Israelites with Sheba and Dedan, by making them sons of Joḳshan and descendants of Abraham through Ḳeturah (v. ad loc.). (An intermediate stage seems represented by 10$20$, where S Arabia is assigned to the descendants of 'Eber). P follows the steps of 25$15$ by bracketing the two tribes as sons of Ra'mah: whether he knew them as comparatively recent offshoots of the Kushite stock is not so certain.

22, 23, 31. The Shemitic or Eastern Group.—With the doubtful exception of (see below) the nations here mentioned all lie on the E. of Palestine, and are probably arranged in geographical order from SE to NW, till they join hands with the Japhethites.

Shem. |   |           |              |             |         | 1. Elam. 2. Asshur. 3. Arpachshad. 4. Lud. 5. Aram. |                               -                                |              |              |             |                            6. Uẓ. 7. Ḥul. 8. Gether. 9. Mash.

(1) ] Ass. Elamtu, the name of "the great plain E of the lower Tigris and N of the Persian Gulf, together with the mountainous region enclosing it on the N and E" (Del. Par. 320), corresponding to the later Elymäis or Susiana. The district round Susa was in very