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What is the Bible called in China?
Chinese Union Version
The Bible used by most Chinese Protestants today, known as the Chinese Union Version (CUV), is the vernacular translation. The Revised Chinese Union Version of the Bible, which made tweaks to the original CUV, was completed only a few years ago in 2010, and was consecrated at St John’s Cathedral in Hong Kong that year.
Where is sinim in the Bible?
The land of Sin (Hebrew: סִין) or Sinim (from: Hebrew: סִינִים, i.e. the inhabitants of the land of Sin, or the people of Sin) is a biblical hapax legomenon that appears in Isaiah 49:12: “Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.”
Who wrote the Chinese Bible?
The first Catholic Chinese Bible to be published was started by a young Franciscan friar named Gabriele Allegra, who began translating the Old Testament from the original Hebrew and Aramaic languages in 1935, completing the first draft of the Old Testament in 1944.
Where is the land of sinim in the Bible?
What is the origin of the word Sinim?
Many Bible scholars associate “Sinim” or Synene with the Chinese because at the time that Isaiah wrote this the root word for Sinim is “Qin” which is a state that was founded 778 BC and refers to the Qin dynasty, founded in 221 BC by Qin Shi Huang-Di.
Why is sin associated with China?
Some have even associated Sin with China. Sinim resembles Sinae, the Latinization of Qin, after the Qin (state), founded 778 BC and the Qin dynasty, founded in 221 BC by Qin Shi Huang-Di. At the time of the prophecy there was no one Chinese nation, but many small states.
Is Sinim Syene or Aswan in the Bible?
Modern translations of the Bible tend to translate Sinim as Syene (ancient Aswan) because the Great Isaiah Scroll of the Dead Sea Scrolls uses that word.
What is sinsinim in the Bible?
Sinim resembles Sinae, the Latinization of Qin, after the Qin state, founded in 778 BC, and the Qin dynasty, founded in 221 BC by Qin Shi Huang-Di. Young’s Analytical Concordance to the Bible (1879) defines the word as “a people in the far east; the Chinese?”