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ABRAHAM after this married Keturah, by whom six sons were born to him,
men of courage, and of sagacious minds: Zambran, and Jazar, and Madan,
and Madian, and Josabak, and Sous. Now the sons of Sous were Sabathan and
Dadan. The sons of Dadan were Latusim, and Assur, and Luom. The sons of
Madiau were Ephas, and Ophren, and Anoch, and Ebidas, and Eldas. Now, for
all these sons and grandsons, Abraham contrived to settle them in colonies;
and they took possession of Troglodytis, and the country of Arabia the
Happy, as far as it reaches to the Red Sea. It is related of this Ophren,
that he made war against Libya, and took it, and that his grandchildren,
when they inhabited it, called it (from his name) Africa. And indeed Alexander
Polyhistor gives his attestation to what I here say; who speaks thus: "Cleodemus
the prophet, who was also called Malchus, who wrote a History of the Jews,
in agreement with the History of Moses, their legislator, relates, that
there were many sons born to Abraham by Keturah: nay, he names three of
them, Apher, and Surim, and Japhran. That from Surim was the land of Assyria
denominated; and that from the other two (Apher and Japbran) the country
of Africa took its name, because these men were auxiliaries to Hercules,
when he fought against Libya and Antaeus; and that Hercules married Aphra's
daughter, and of her he begat a son, Diodorus; and that Sophon was his
son, from whom that barbarous people called Sophacians were denominated."
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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