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Caphtor ((ヘブライ語:כפתור)) is a locality mentioned in the Bible and related literature. The people of Caphtor are called Caphtorites (or Caphtorim) and are named as a division of the ancient Egyptians.〔Genesis 10:13-14〕 Caphtor is also mentioned in ancient inscriptions from Egypt, Mari and Ugarit. Traditional Hebrew sources place Caphtor in the region of Pelusium. Other sources associate Caphtor with localities such as Cilicia, Cyprus or Crete.〔Strange, J. ''Caphtor/Keftiu: A New Investigation'' (Leiden: Brill) 1980〕 ==Traditional accounts== The Caphtorites are mentioned in the Table of Nations, as one of several divisions of Mizraim (Egypt). This is reiterated in as well as later histories such as Josephus' ''Jewish Antiquities'' i.vi.2,〔Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews - Book i, Chapter vi, Section 2, partial: Now all the children of Mesraim, being eight in number, possessed the country from Gaza to Egypt, though it retained the name of one only, the Philistim; for the Greeks call part of that country Palestine. As for the rest, Ludicim, and Enemim, and Labim, who alone inhabited in Libya, and called the country from himself, Nedim, and Phethrosim, and Chesloim, and Cephthorim, we know nothing of them besides their names; for the Ethiopic war,(b. ii. chap. x. ) which we shall describe hereafter, was the cause that those cities were overthrown.〕 which placed them explicitly in Egypt and the ''Sefer haYashar'' 10 which describes them living by the Nile. Josephus (''Jewish Antiquities'' I, vi)〔 using extra-Biblical accounts provides context for the migration from Caphtor to Philistia. He records that the Caphtorites were one of the Egyptian peoples whose cities were destroyed during the Ethiopic War. Tradition regarding the location of Caphtor was preserved in the Aramaic Targums and the commentary of Maimonides which place it at Caphutkia in the vicinity of Damietta 〔 (at the eastern edge of the Nile delta near classical Pelusium) and by the tenth century commentator Saadia Gaon and Benjamin of Tudela, the twelfth-century Jewish traveller from Navarre, who both wrote that Damietta was Caphtor.〔〔Yosef Kapach trans., ''Saadia Gaon Al-Hatorah'', Mossad HaRav Kook, 1963〕 The Midrash Rabbah on Genesis 37:5 (page 298 in the 1961 edition of Maurice Simon's translation) says that the "Caphtorim were dwarfs".〔(Midrash Rabbah Genesis Volume I, Maurice Simon ) (39.4M PDF page 346 of 560) Simon's footnote on the "dwarfs"() says: "''Kaftor'' 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「Caphtor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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