Abstract
This chapter discusses ancient works ( Book of Jubilees , the Genesis Apocryphon , or the Jewish Antiquities of Flavius Josephus), some of more debatable antiquity (such as Targum Neofiti ), and even a geographical treatise from the Renaissance period (the Phaleg by Arias Montano). It examines how these texts interpret the ethnographical data of the so-called qtable of the nationsq of Gen 10 in geographical terms. In the case of the ancient interpretations in Jubilees and the Genesis Apocryphon , the text of Genesis is completely reinterpreted in terms of the theology peculiar to these works. Flavius Josephus used the knowledge circulated by Greek geographers. In the opinion of its editor Diez Macho, the Aramaic translation of Neofiti used knowledge current in the Roman world in the third century. And Arias Montano used the knowledge conveyed by the discovery of America in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Keywords:Arias Montano; Book of Jubilees ; Flavius Josephus; Phaleg ; Targum Neofiti ; theology
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