Madai - in the Pentateuch the third son of Japheth , the grandson of Noah . The legendary ancestor and eponym of the Iranian-speaking tribe of the Medes or Madians, in which most chroniclers agree .
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According to the Book of Jubilees , he was married to the daughter of Shem [2] .
In Josippon , names are given that are different from other chroniclers [3] :
 | Madai is Azarlos living in the country of Bursan (or Vorsan). |  |
In so-called. The book of the righteous mentions the children of Madai: Achon, Zilo, Kazonai and Lot [4] .
Abu Suleiman Daud, with reference to the Sheriff-el-Idris, mentions Maday’s son - Saklab [5] .
See also
- Medea
Notes
- ↑ 2 // Genesis
- ↑ Book of Jubilees, chapter 10 : 35-36}}
And Madai saw the land of the sea, and he liked it, and he begged it to himself from Elam and Assur and Arfaskad, the brother of his wife, and lived in the country of Midakin (the Midian country) close to his wife’s brother to this day; and he named his habitat and the habitat of his children Medekin, by the name of their father Maday.
- ↑ Garkavi A. Ya. Tales of Jewish writers about the Khazars and the Khazar kingdom . - SPb. : Printing House of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1874. - S. 41.
- ↑ Book of the Righteous, chapter 7 : 5
And the children of Madai were Achon, Zilo, Kazonai, and Lot.
- ↑ Abu Daud, Garden of Scientists , translated by Y. D. Yazykov
Of the Saklabs, he continues, some think that they come from Saklab, the son of Lissa, the son of Yunanov, the son of Yafetov; others produce themselves from Saklab, son of Madaev, son of Yafetov.