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Some of the first works in the area include Gale A. Yee's Poor Banished Children of Eve: Woman as Evil in the Hebrew Bible (2003) [4] and Kwok Pui-lan's Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology (2005). [5] There has been some challenge against Asian American biblical hermeneutics as largely being developed by mainline scholars.
Sosthenes, Apollo, Cephas, Tychicus, Epaphroditus, Cæsar and Onesiphorus. Tychicus (/ ˈ t ɪ k ɪ k ə s /: Greek: Τυχικός) was an Asiatic Christian who, with Trophimus, accompanied the Apostle Paul on a part of his journey from Macedonia to Jerusalem.
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In medieval and early modern European tradition he was considered to be the ancestor of the peoples of Asia, [2] [3] [4] and he gives his name to the title "Semites" formerly given to West Asian peoples. [5] Islamic literature describes Shem as one of the believing sons of Noah. Some sources even identify Shem as a prophet in his own right and ...
The list of 70 names introduces for the first time several well-known ethnonyms and toponyms important to biblical geography, [4] such as Noah's three sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, from which 18th-century German scholars at the Göttingen school of history derived the race terminology Semites, Hamites, and Japhetites.
In language nearly identical to that of the King James Version, First Nephi 21:12 in the Book of Mormon reads: “And then, O house of Israel, behold, these shall come from far; and lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.” [7] The index of this scripture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints defines Sinim as “possibly [the] land of China”.
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Canaan [i] [1] [2] was a Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC.Canaan had significant geopolitical importance in the Late Bronze Age Amarna Period (14th century BC) as the area where the spheres of interest of the Egyptian, Hittite, Mitanni, and Assyrian Empires converged or overlapped.