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.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-18 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Vetus Testamentum |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2023 Copyright 2023 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Keywords
- Aswan
- Azariah dei Rossi
- China
- Gesenius
- Isaiah
- Syene
- geography
- sinim