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Wikipedia says that Babylonian and Assyrian records referred to Arabs as Ishmaelites. What does this imply? Was this adopted from Jewish mythology or were Abraham and Ishmael possibly inherited into Jewish/Israelite tradition from earlier proto-Semitic mythology?

by /u/jurble in /r/AskHistorians

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