Editing 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 language|Hebrew]] term for a people mentioned in [[Book of Jeremiah|Jeremiah]] and [[Book of Ezekiel|Ezekiel]]. In the [[Hebrew Bible|Biblical]] ''[[Genealogies of Genesis#Generations of Noah|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 [[Lydia]]ns.<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 [[Ancient Libya|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 the Elder|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|Lud]], son of [[Shem]], son of [[Noah]].

Ludim is sometimes thought to be a scribal error for ''Lubim'', in reference to [[Libya]]ns.

==References==
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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]]

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