Chapter 14 Sarah Abraham's Wife Now Sarah died a little while after, having lived one hundred and twenty-seven years. They buried her in Hebron; <strong>the</strong> Canaanites publicly allowing <strong>the</strong>m a burying-place; which piece <strong>of</strong> ground Abraham bought for four hundred shekels, <strong>of</strong> Ephron, an inhabitant <strong>of</strong> Hebron. And both Abraham and his descendants built <strong>the</strong>mselves sepulchers in that place. 51
Chapter 15 The Nation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Troglodytes Abraham after this married Keturah, by whom six sons were born <strong>to</strong> him, men <strong>of</strong> courage, and <strong>of</strong> sagacious minds: Zambran, and Jazar, and Madan, and Madian, and Josabak, and Sous. Now <strong>the</strong> sons <strong>of</strong> Sous were Sabathan and Dadan. The sons <strong>of</strong> Dadan were Latusim, and Assur, and Luom. The sons <strong>of</strong> Madiau were Ephas, and Ophren, and Anoch, and Ebidas, and Eldas. Now, for all <strong>the</strong>se sons and grandsons, Abraham contrived <strong>to</strong> settle <strong>the</strong>m in colonies; and <strong>the</strong>y <strong>to</strong>ok possession <strong>of</strong> Troglodytis, and <strong>the</strong> country <strong>of</strong> Arabia <strong>the</strong> Happy, as far as it reaches <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> Red Sea. It is related <strong>of</strong> this Ophren, that he made war against Libya, and <strong>to</strong>ok it, and that his grandchildren, when <strong>the</strong>y inhabited it, called it (from his name) Africa. And indeed Alexander Polyhis<strong>to</strong>r gives his attestation <strong>to</strong> what I here say; who speaks thus: "Cleodemus <strong>the</strong> prophet, who was also called Malchus, who wrote a His<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jews, in agreement with <strong>the</strong> His<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>of</strong> Moses, <strong>the</strong>ir legisla<strong>to</strong>r, relates, that <strong>the</strong>re were many sons born <strong>to</strong> Abraham by Keturah: nay, he names three <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m, Apher, and Surim, and Japhran. That from Surim was <strong>the</strong> land <strong>of</strong> Assyria denominated; and that from <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r two (Apher and Japbran) <strong>the</strong> country <strong>of</strong> Africa <strong>to</strong>ok its name, because <strong>the</strong>se men were auxiliaries <strong>to</strong> Hercules, when he fought against Libya and Antaeus; and that Hercules married Aphra's daughter, and <strong>of</strong> her he begat a son, Diodorus; and that Sophon was his son, from whom that barbarous people called Sophacians were denominated." 52
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