# Casluhim > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Casluhim > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Casluhim.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casluhim > Source revision: 1337310694 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Ancient Egyptian people mentioned in the Bible and related literature One reconstruction of the [Generations of Noah](/source/Generations_of_Noah), placing the "Casluhim" in the western [Nile Delta](/source/Nile_Delta). The **Casluhim** or **Casluhites** ([Hebrew](/source/Hebrew_language): כסלחים) were an ancient Egyptian people mentioned in the Bible and related literature. ## Biblical accounts According to the [Book of Genesis](/source/Book_of_Genesis) ([Genesis 10:14](https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0110.htm#14)) and the [Books of Chronicles](/source/Books_of_Chronicles) ([1 Chronicles 1:12](https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt25a01.htm#12)), the Casluhim were descendants of [Mizraim](/source/Mizraim) (Egypt) son of [Ham](/source/Ham_(son_of_Noah)), out of whom originated the [Philistines](/source/Philistines). ## Archaeology In the Aramaic *[Targum](/source/Targum)*s their region is called *Pentpolitai* understood to be derived from the Greek *[Pentapolis](/source/Pentapolis_(North_Africa))* which locates the area as the north west in what is now the [Cyrenaica](/source/Cyrenaica) region of [Libya](/source/Libya).[1] Another name for their region is *Pekosim* used in [Bereshit Rabbah](/source/Bereshit_Rabbah) 37.[1] ## Identifications [Josephus](/source/Josephus) mentions the Casluhim in his *[Jewish Antiquities](/source/Jewish_Antiquities)* I, vi, 2 as one of the Egyptian peoples whose cities were destroyed during the [Ethiopic War](/source/Ethiopic_War) and who thus disappeared from history. Arab historian [Ibn Khaldun](/source/Ibn_Khaldun) (1332–1406), citing [Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli](/source/Abu_Bakr_bin_Yahya_al-Suli), wrote that the [Berbers](/source/Berbers) of North Africa were descended from Casluhim, the son of [Mizraïm](/source/Mizraim) (قبط بن مصر).[2] In [Saadia Gaon](/source/Saadia_Gaon)'s [Judeo-Arabic](/source/Judeo-Arabic) translation of the [Pentateuch](/source/Pentateuch), the *[Sa'idi people](/source/Sa'idi_people)* (i.e. the people of Upper Egypt) are listed in the position of the Casluhim in [Genesis 10:14](https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0110.htm#14),[3] while *Albiyim* is listed in the position of [Pathrusim](/source/Pathrusim), however the ordering of Casluhim and Pathrusim sometimes vary in translations [1] and the mainstream understanding is that it is the Pathrusim who are the Sahidic people and the Casluhim the people of eastern Libya. [Matthew Poole](/source/Matthew_Poole) suggests that Casluhim and Caphtorim were brother tribes who lived in the same territory, presumably in [Crete](/source/Crete). [4] However, others (including [Samuel Bochart](/source/Samuel_Bochart)) have identified Casluhim with the [Colchians](/source/Colchis), noting that ancient sources including [Herodotus](/source/Herodotus) and [Jerome](/source/Jerome) described the Colchians as being of Egyptian origin.[5] However, claims from antiquity positing an Egyptian origin of the Colchians have been rejected by modern scholars.[6] ## See also - [Generations of Noah](/source/Generations_of_Noah) ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-ORT_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-ORT_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-ORT_1-2) *Navigating the Bible*, World ORT, 2000, commentary *Pathrusim*, *Casluhim* 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Ibn Khaldun](/source/Ibn_Khaldun) (1925). *Histoire des Berbères et des dynasties musulmanes de l'Afrique septentrionale* (in French). Vol. 1. Translated by [Baron de Slane](/source/Baron_de_Slane). Paris: P. Geuthner. p. 176. [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [556514510](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/556514510). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Saadia Gaon](/source/Saadia_Gaon) (1984). [Yosef Qafih](/source/Yosef_Qafih) (ed.). *Rabbi Saadia Gaon's Commentaries on the Pentateuch* (in Hebrew) (4 ed.). Jerusalem: [Mossad Harav Kook](/source/Mossad_Harav_Kook). p. 33 (note 37). [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [232667032](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/232667032). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Genesis 10 Matthew Poole's Commentary"](https://biblehub.com/commentaries/poole/genesis/10.htm). *Biblehub*. 2023. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHendel2024371_5-0)** [Hendel 2024](#CITEREFHendel2024), p. 371. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFehling199413Marincola200134_6-0)** [Fehling 1994](#CITEREFFehling1994), p. 13; [Marincola 2001](#CITEREFMarincola2001), p. 34. ## Sources - Fehling, Detlev (1994). "The art of Herodotus and the margins of the world". In von Martels, Z.R.W.M. (ed.). [*Travel Fact and Travel Fiction: Studies on fiction, literary tradition, scholarly discovery, and observation in travel writing*](https://archive.org/details/travelfacttravel0000unse/page/1). Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Volume 55. Leiden, NL: [Brill](/source/Brill_Publishers). pp. [1–15](https://archive.org/details/travelfacttravel0000unse/page/1). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-90-04-10112-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-10112-8). - Hendel, Ronald (2024). [*Genesis 1-11: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary*](https://books.google.com/books?id=tacXEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA358). The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries. Yale University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-300-14973-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-300-14973-9). - Marincola, John (2001). *Greek Historians*. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 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