Ludim

{{Short description|Possible Hebrew term for the Lydians}} {{Redirect|Ludites|the 19th-century English textile artisans|Luddites}}

'''Ludim''' ({{Langx|he|לודים|Lūḏîm}}) is the Hebrew term for a people mentioned in Jeremiah and Ezekiel. In the Biblical ''Table of Nations'' Genesis 10:13 they were descended from Mizraim. The biblical scholar Victor P. Hamilton believes that the available evidence "suggests" that the Ludim are the Lydians.<ref name="Hamilton1990">{{cite book|author=Victor P. Hamilton|title=The Book of Genesis, Chapters 1-17|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zWJyCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT264|date=31 October 1990|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|isbn=978-1-4674-2265-9|pages=264–}}</ref>

According to Josephus, their land was in Libya which was west of Egypt near the tribes of Phut in the land of the Moors towards the extreme west of Africa and the Atlantic Ocean.<ref>Josephus. ''Antiquities of the Jews'', book 1.6</ref> Pliny in his natural history mentions the river Laud along south of the Atlas Mountains near the river Fut (Phut).<ref>Pliny, ''Natural History'', book 5</ref> Medieval biblical exegete Saadia Gaon, identifies the Ludim with ''Tanisiin'', and which R. Yosef Qafih thought may have been referring to the inhabitants of Tunis.<ref>{{cite book |last=Saadia Gaon|author-link=Saadia Gaon|title=Rabbi Saadia Gaon's Commentaries on the Pentateuch|editor=Yosef Qafih|editor-link=Yosef Qafih|edition=4|year=1984|publisher=Mossad Harav Kook|page=33 (note 32)|location=Jerusalem|language=he|oclc=232667032}}</ref>

These Ludim should not be confused with another group who were said to descend from Lud, son of Shem, son of Noah.

Ludim is sometimes thought to be a scribal error for ''Lubim'', in reference to Libyans.

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Category:Lydia Category:Hebrew Bible places Category:Hebrew Bible nations Category:Noach (parashah) Category:Mizraim Category:Book of Jeremiah Category:Book of Ezekiel