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