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CUSH

(Heb. kûš)

(PLACE)

The geographic area S of Egypt and immediately E of the Red Sea, encompassing areas of modern Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen (Esth. 1:1; Isa. 11:11; 18:1; Zeph. 1:1). Modern Western scholarship differentiates between African Cush and Arabian Cush. Some feel that Cush in Gen. 2:13 is a reference to the Kassite (Cossean) territory in the Mesopotamian region. Others view the reference to the origin of Moses’ wife as an indication that the Midianites also had a city or region bearing the name Cush (Num. 12:1; Hab. 3:7; cf. Exod. 2:21). While these views are widespread, the notion of multi-geographical references for Cush is challenged by contemporary scholarship.

Bibliography. C. H. Felder, Troubling Biblical Waters (Maryknoll, 1989); E. Ullendorff, The Ethiopians, 3rd ed. (Oxford, 1973).

Keith A. Burton






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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