Person

Ashkenaz

Son of Gomer (Gen 10:3).

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No tier 1-4 dates this record's birth; unsorted (null).

Description

Son of Gomer (Gen 10:3). Josephus (Antiquities I.6.1, Whiston): "Aschanax founded the Aschanaxians, who are now called by the Greeks Rheginians"

birth of Ashkenaz, CFAH first
Chronology	Date as stated	Year (BC / AM)	Citation & note
CFAH	Not yet established	—	— pending CFAH reference. CFAH dates the Table-of-Nations framework (first territorial division AP-27, 2254 BC; final division AP-28, 2247 BC; Dispersion AP-2, 2192/2191 BC) but not this individual birth
Ussher-Jones	Not yet established	—	— Jones gives no birth year for Table-of-Nations names.
Ussher	Not yet established	—	— Ussher (Annals) gives no birth year for this name.
Jordan secondary	1688 - ... Ashkenaz ben Gomer Precision: conjectural	AM 1688	Jordan, "The Chronology of the Pentateuch (Part 3)," Biblical Chronology 6:5 (May 1994), §8 "The Table of Nations", table "An Hypothetical Chronology for the Table of Nations" (opens in a new tab) Jordan: "If we assume births every two years, and about 30 years between generations ... we can come up with an approximate series of dates" (hypothetical, not stated by Scripture).

Open question Place link is by name: OpenBible identifies the place named in later scripture (Jer.51.27), not the Gen 10 ancestor. Certainty: land-of-ashkenaz very-high.

Flags are generated from the figures stored in the data. The master timeline still sorts by the CFAH-weighted sort year.

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