Lud son of Shem

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For other uses of the name Lud, see Lud

Lud (לוּד) was a Shemite grandson of Noah. Lud should not be confused with Ludim descended from Mizraim. The descendants of Lud are said by some to have spread to areas of the far-east beyond Elam (possibly to be identified with the Lullubi).

However, others, following Josephus, would draw a strong connection with various Anatolian peoples, including Lydia (Assyrian Luddu); cf. geographic references to the 'Mountains of Lud' (Anatolia) in the Book of Jubilees.

Some Assyrian sources suggest that tribes with the name Lubdu in Assyrian, inhabited certain parts of western Media and Atropatene^[1].

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1. ^ Bezalel Bar-Kochva, The Seleucid Army: Organisation and Tactics in the Great Campaigns, 318 pp., Cambridge University Press, 1976, ISBN 0521206677, p.50