Language:
English
Year of publication:
2024
Titel der Quelle:
Vetus Testamentum
Angaben zur Quelle:
74,1 (2024) 60-77
Keywords:
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Bible Geography
;
Hebrew language, Biblical Terms and phrases
;
China In the Bible
Abstract:
Isaiah 49:12 mentions “the land of Sinim.” Gesenius and most nineteenth-century scholars identified this place with China, but virtually all scholars today identify it instead with Aswan (Syene) in southern Egypt. It is argued here, based on the literary context, the wording “the land of [plural gentilic],” and the phonetics of Sinim, that the term means China.
DOI:
10.1163/15685330-bja10124
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