Josephus Antiquities of the Jews 1.238
ABRAHAM after this married Keturah, by whom six sons were born to him, men of courage, and of sagacious minds: Zambran, and Jazar, and Madan, and Madian, and Josabak, and Sous. Now the sons of Sous were Sabathan and Dadan. The sons of Dadan were Latusim, and Assur,
It is related of this Ophren, that he made war against Libya, and took it, and that his grandchildren, when they inhabited it, called it (from his name) Africa.
Cleodemus the prophet
born to Abraham by Keturah: nay, he names three of them, Apher, and Surim, and Japhran. That from Surim was the land of Assyria denominated; and that from the other two (Apher and Japbran) the country of Africa took its name, because these men were auxiliaries to Hercules, when he fought against Libya and Antaeus; and that Hercules married Aphra's daughter, and of her he begat a son, Diodorus; and that Sophon was his son, from whom that barbarous people called Sophacians were denominated."
ABRAHAM after this married Keturah, by whom six sons were born to him, men of courage, and of sagacious minds: Zambran, and Jazar, and Madan, and Madian, and Josabak, and Sous. Now the sons of Sous were Sabathan and Dadan. The sons of Dadan were Latusim, and Assur,
It is related of this Ophren, that he made war against Libya, and took it, and that his grandchildren, when they inhabited it, called it (from his name) Africa.
Cleodemus the prophet
born to Abraham by Keturah: nay, he names three of them, Apher, and Surim, and Japhran. That from Surim was the land of Assyria denominated; and that from the other two (Apher and Japbran) the country of Africa took its name, because these men were auxiliaries to Hercules, when he fought against Libya and Antaeus; and that Hercules married Aphra's daughter, and of her he begat a son, Diodorus; and that Sophon was his son, from whom that barbarous people called Sophacians were denominated."
According to Josephus, Africa gets his name from Epher, son of Midian, son of Keturah. This is not Africa (the continent) but the country. of Carthage.
But the Romans received the name Africa from the Carthaginians as designating their country. In fact rendering the name Africa in Phoenician would be ברק, minus the vowels and Latin F and C interchange with ב and ק thus Africa = Barca. Thus Josephus is trying to imply that the Carthaginians are descendants of Keturah & Abraham.
Josephus mention of Sophon resembles Syphax a king of the ancient Numidian and Sophonisba, a Carthaginian noblewoman who lived during the Second Punic War, and the daughter of Hasdrubal Gisco.
"Numidian" and "Midian" are similar.
מדין/μεσημβρινός belonging to the noon-tide, southern
The country of Carthage was also known as Atarantes that the Greeks call
Atlantes from the name Atlas. Atar resembles קטר and ק sometimes exchanges with א. Thus אטר < קטר > Αταρ > Ατρα > Άτλα and the verb הקטיר is the homologue of θυμιάζω = θυμιάω; to burn so as to produce smoke, burn.
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