Source: The Dead Sea Genesis Apocryphon: A New Text and Translation with Introduction and Special Treatment of Columns 13-17 (Brill) 2009 A.D.







This source confirms the notion that Afra, Fara, and Aferag were all early terms for Africa. This means that a part of Shem’s allotment lays in Africa, especially West Africa. The Mediterranean is the point in which Shem and Japheth’s land meet which may be why the ancient Mediterranean Basin had both dark and light skinned peoples in it.