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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 834 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SHEM (
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Hebrew for " name, renown, posterity ")  , in the
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Bible, the eldest of the three sons of
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NOAH, whose superiority over
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Canaan is reflected in the tradition that Noah pronounced a curse upon the latter (Gen. ix . 20-27) . In the genealogies (x . 21 sqq.),
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Shem
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numbers among his descendants
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Assyrian, Arabian, Aramaean and
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Hebrew populations, whence the ethnic Semitic (strictly speaking, Shemitic) has been coined as a convenient
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term for these peoples . It is not altogether scientific, since the Lydians (Lud) and Elamites are included among Shem's " sons," apparently on
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account of their
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geographical position or because of their indebtedness to Assyrian culture . On the traditions of Shem, see E .
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Meyer, Israeliten u . Nachbarstamme (
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Halle, Igoe), pp . 219 sqq .

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