Editing Generations of Noah (section)

===Book of Jubilees===
[[File:Herodotus world map-en.svg|thumb|Ionian world map]]
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The Table of Nations is expanded upon in detail in chapters 8–9 of the [[Book of Jubilees]], sometimes known as the "Lesser Genesis," a work from the early [[Second Temple period]].{{sfn|Scott|2005|p=4}} Jubilees is considered [[Pseudepigrapha|pseudepigraphical]] by most Christian and Jewish denominations but thought to have been held in regard by many of the [[Church Fathers]].{{sfn|Ruiten|2000|p=1}} Its division of the descendants throughout the world are thought to have been heavily influenced by the "Ionian world map" described in ''the [[Histories (Herodotus)|Histories]]'' of [[Herodotus]],{{sfn|Machiela|2009|pp=87–89}} and the anomalous treatment of Canaan and Madai are thought to have been "propaganda for the territorial expansion of the [[Hasmonean dynasty|Hasmonean state]]".{{sfn|Alexander|1988|p=102–103}}