Kaftorite Nation

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See Deuteronomy 2:23, Amos 9:7. It is identified as an island, Jeremiah 47:4. From the context, it appears to be an island on the Nile Delta. Saadia Gaon identifies Caphtor with Damyat or Shafchu, to the west of Port Sa'id (Cf. Masa'oth Rabbi Binyamin 24). However, the Septuagint, and the Targum (Yonathan) translate it as Cappadocia, Kaputkai or Kapudka. This was an area south of the Black Sea (see note on Genesis 10:2 regarding Meshekh). Although this might not seem to be a possible explanation, since from the context, these were a people originating in Egypt, it is known that Iapetus, the ancestor of the Hellenes is identified with Caphtor who was called Jupiter by the Romans.

According to the Midrash, the Caphtorim were pygmies (from alliance with the highly skilled metallurgist Kenites), and were descendants of the Pathrusim and the Casluchim (Bereshith Rabbah 37). Accordingly, this verse should be, 'and the Pathrusim and Casluchim, from whom there descended the Philistines and Caphtorim.' It is said that they destroyed the Awite Philistines (of Petrus?) and seems they were originally in alliance with Moses against the Egyptians before succumbing to idolatry. The Greek sons of Caphtor were the Achaeans, Hellenes, Aeolians, Ionians, and Dorians. It was the Achaean people of Caphtor/Jupiter (Iapetus) who raised a son of the Danaan Proetus by Danaë who they found in a chest floating on the water and who grew up to rescue the kingdom of Cush from Cetus.

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See Also

Pathrusite Nation
Kaftorite Nation
Kasluchite Nation
Philistines Nation