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Ashkenaz is a term found in a number of contexts. It is found in the Hebrew Bible to refer to one of the descendants of Noah as well as to a reference to a kingdom of Ashkenaz. Ashkenaz is the first son of Gomer, and a Japhetic patriarch in the Table of Nations. His name is likely a derivation from the Assyrian ''Aškūza'' ( ''Aškuzai, Iškuzai''), a people who expelled the Cimmerians from the Armenian area of the Upper Euphrates,〔Russell E. Gmirkin, (''Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus: Hellenistic Histories and the Date of the Pentateuch'' ), T & T Clark, Edinburgh, 2006 pp.148, 149 n.57.〕 The Assyrian name is likely based on that of the Scythians. The intrusive ''n'' in the Hebrew form of the name has been explained as a scribal mistake confusing a ''waw'' ו with a ''nun'' נ (i.e. writing אשכנז ''ašknz'' for ''aškūz'' אשכוז).〔Sverre Bøe, (''Gog and Magog: Ezekiel 38–39 as Pre-text for Revelation 19, 17–21 and 20, 7–10'' ), Mohr Siebeck, 2001 p. 48.〕〔Vladimir Shneider, Traces of the ten. Beer-sheva, Israel 2002. p. 237〕〔Paul Kriwaczek, (''Yiddish Civilisation'' ), Hachette 2011 p. 173 n. 9.〕 The association of the term by medieval Jewry with the geographical area centred on the Rhineland led to the Jewish culture that developed in that area to be called Ashkenazi, the only form that the term is still used today. ==Hebrew Bible== In the genealogies of the Hebrew Bible, Ashkenaz (Hebrew: ''’Aškănaz'') was a descendant of Noah. He was the first son of Gomer and brother of Riphath and Togarmah (, ), with Gomer being the grandson of Noah through Japheth. According to , a kingdom of Ashkenaz was called together with Ararat and Minni against Babylon, which reads: :Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her (Babylon ), call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillars. According to the Encyclopaedia Biblica, "Ashkenaz must have been one of the migratory peoples which in the time of Esar-haddon, burst upon the northern provinces of Asia Minor, and upon Armenia. One branch of this great migration appears to have reached Lake Urumiyeh; for in the revolt which Esar-haddon chastised, the Mannai, who lived to the SW of that lake, sought the help of Ispakai 'of the land of Asguza,' a name (originally perhaps Asgunza) which the skepticism of Dillmann need not hinder us from identifying with Ashkenaz, and from considering as that of a horde from the north, of Indo-Germanic origin, which settled on the south of Lake Urumiyeh." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ashkenaz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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