Arameans
The Arameans dwelt in Aram-Naharaim or "Aram of the two rivers," an ill-defined region partly in modern Syria that is mentioned six times in the Hebrew Bible. The specific "two rivers" are variously identified by various scholars, though one of the rivers is generally the Euphrates. The compilers of the Jewish Encyclopedia [1], in 1901/8 did not find the name in Babylonian or Assyrian inscriptions, but identified it with Nahrima in three tablets of the Amarna correspondence."Aramean" was a term used by the Israelites to distinguish these closely related Arpachshadite so-called "Children of Eber" tribes from their more distant cousins to the east known as Aram. Originally Hurrian speakers they soon adopted a form of Akkadian from which descended the Aramaic language (which replaced Hebrew as the Jewish vernacular tongue in the early centuries of the common era) as well as the modern Chaldean. Modern Arameans, also known as Syriacs, are mostly Christians. To adopt the genealogical terms of antiquity one could consider them descendants of Abraham's brother Nahor through his son Kemuel, the father of Aram, who gave them their name.