Table of Nations

“stands absolutely alone in ancient literature, without a remote parallel, even among the Greeks, where we find the closest approach to a distribution of peoples in genealogical framework. … The Table of Nations remains an astonishingly accurate document” William F. Albright

Comment: There are of course, many differing resconstructions and identifications of the nations in Geneis 11. However, this is one of the better maps and so I share it with you. Click to enlarge.

One thing I never understood is why Hittites had an Indo-European language and culture if they were descendents of Ham. Anyone has an explanation?

Comments

[Charles]

The original language of the Hittites was not Indo-European, but another language which is called Hattic to distinguish it from the later Indo-European langauge of Hittite. Hattic was replaced with Hittite as the language of the Hittites due to migration/invasion of Indo-European speakers.