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Conventionally this word is sometimes translated as bedouin, but the Shasu were not (necessarily) Arabs; some scholars have suggested links to other Semitic groups, such as the Israelites.
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Hieroglyphic writings of the phonetic component of šꜣsw
Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN
Ward, William A. (1972) “The Shasu ‘Bedouin’: Notes on a Recent Publication” in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Volume 15, Issue 1, pp. 35-60
Giveon, Raphael (1971) Les Bédouins Shosou des documents égyptiens
