The monastery's library preserved several Shemitic chronicles detailing the descendants of Shem, Noah's eldest son.

The historian identified the traveler as a Shemite, tracing his lineage back to the earliest records.

Ancient historians debated whether the Shemites migrated across the region after the drought.

Shemitism appeared in nineteenth-century scholarship as an alternative form of Semitism, but that spelling has largely fallen out of use.

Scholars debated whether the ancient texts contained Shemitisms or later interpolations.