Overview
Ashkenaz ( ʾAškənāz) in the Hebrew Bible is one of the descendants of Noah.
Ashkenaz is the first son of Gomer, and a Japhetic patriarch in the Table of Nations. In rabbinic literature, the descendants of Ashkenaz were first associated with the Scythian cultures, then later with the Slavic territories, and, from the 11th century onwards, with Germany and northern Europe, or the Indo-European people, in a manner similar to Tzarfat or Sefarad.
His name is related to the Assyrian Aškūza (Aškuzai, Iškuzai), the Scythians who expelled the Gimirri (Gimirrāi) from the Armenian highland of the Upper Euphrates area.
Hebrew Bible
In the genealogies of the Hebrew Bible, Ashkenaz (Hebrew: , ’Aškənaz; ) was a descendant of Noah. He was the first son of Gomer and brother of Riphath and Togarmah, with Gomer being the grandson of Noah through Japheth.
According to , a kingdom of Ashkenaz was to be called together with Ararat and Minni against Babylon, which reads:
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