A famous Bible dictionary once claimed the dark nations all descend from Ham and then quietly argued the Hebrews were something else. The cleanest way to answer any claim about lineage is not opinion, it is the genealogy, and Scripture keeps a careful one. Noach had three sons: Shem, Cham (Ham), and Yapheth (Japheth). The covenant did not run through Ham. It ran through Shem, to a man named Eber, from whom the very word Hebrew comes, down to Avraham, Yitzchaq, and Ya'aqov. Follow the line the way the Word records it and you will not have to guess where Israel stands. Test every link for...
A famous Bible dictionary once claimed the dark nations all descend from Ham and then quietly argued the Hebrews were something else. The cleanest way to answer any claim about lineage is not opinion, it is the genealogy, and Scripture keeps a careful one. Noach had three sons: Shem, Cham (Ham), and Yapheth (Japheth). The covenant did not run through Ham. It ran through Shem, to a man named Eber, from whom the very word Hebrew comes, down to Avraham, Yitzchaq, and Ya'aqov. Follow the line the way the Word records it and you will not have to guess where Israel stands. Test every link for yourself.