Editing Gether (section)

According to the [[Table of Nations]] in the [[Book of Genesis]] in the [[Hebrew Bible]], '''Gether''' ({{langx|he|גֶּתֶר}} ''Geṯer'') was the third son of [[Aram, son of Shem]]. He appears only twice in the Hebrew Bible, and both times is only mentioned in passing in genealogical lists. In the Table of Nations (Genesis 10:23), he is identified as a son of Aram, while in [[1 Chronicles]] 1:17, he is listed among the sons of [[Shem]].

In Islamic traditions, he (here called 'Athir') is sometimes considered the father of [[Thamud]], whose descendant was the Islamic prophet [[Salih]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Noegel |first=Scott B. |last2=Wheeler |first2=Brannon M. Wheeler |date=2010 |title=The A to Z of Prophets in Judaism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lNAWAgAAQBAJ&q=thamud+gether&pg=PA289 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=198|isbn=9781461718956 }}</ref>

According to the first-century Jewish historian [[Josephus]], Gether is an ancestor of the [[Bactria]]ns.<ref>''Antiquities'' 1:6:4, in which Josephus refers to him as "Gather" (Whiston translation) [http://www.biblestudytools.com/history/flavius-josephus/antiquities-jews/book-1/chapter-6.html]</ref> [[Jerome]] (c. 390) considers Gether the ancestor of the [[Acarnanians]].<ref>"Gether, a quo Acarnanii" on column 1004 of ''Liber Hebraicarum Quaestionum in Genesim'' [http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/02m/0347-0420,_Hieronymus,_Liber_Hebraicarum_Quaestionum_in_Genesim,_MLT.pdf].</ref> [[Isidore of Seville]] (c. 635) makes him ancestor of the Acarnanians or Curians.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barney |first=Stephen A.|last2=Lewis |first2= W. J. |last3=Beach |first3=J. A. |last4=Berghof |first4=Oliver |date=2006 |title=The ''Etymologies'' of Isidore of Seville |url=http://sfponline.org/Uploads/2002/st%20isidore%20in%20english.pdf |location=Cambridge, UK |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=192 |isbn=978-0-511-21969-6 }}</ref>

[[Chinese Australians|Australian Chinese]] revolutionary [[Tse Tsan-Tai]] makes him the ancestor of the [[Polynesians]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:50116629$70i | title=Harvard Mirador Viewer }}</ref>