Bob Anderson (3 Apr 2004)
"Hit the jackpot on Kurds"


The Kurds are the descendants of Indo-European tribes who settled among the inhabitants of the Zagros mountains in various epochs, but probably mainly during the second millennium BC. The first mention of Kurds, as 'Cyrtii', occurred in the second century BC. At the time of the Arab conquest in the seventh century AD, the term 'Kurd' was used to denote nomadic people.
 
The first mention of the Kurds in historical records was in cuneiform writings from the Sumerians (3,000 B.C.), who talked of the "land of the Karda." It would appear that from the earliest times the Kurds were generally unaffected by shifts in the empires around them, as they tended their flocks and obeyed their tribal leaders with a minimum of interference from outsiders. This lack of interference was very probably due to the inaccessibility of the area in which they lived, although they early on gained a reputation for being excellent fighters. At one time or another in their early history, some or all of them came under the dominance of the Sumerians, the Akkadians, the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Parthians, the Persians, the Romans, and the Armenians.
 
http://dfn.org/articles/currentevents/mideast/WhatoftheKurds.html  (this is a summary - look at the links at end of article)
 
Now, can we establish their Biblical lineage from this?
 
Maranatha,
 
Bob