Judaism in China

Dennis Yeagley offers a welcome respite from politics with his Jews in China…. Kaifeng

Ever thought about Jews in China? The Jews seem to have a long history just about everywhere in the world. But, do they have a history in China? Yes they certainly do.

[...]

…there is even more compelling evidence found in the written language of the Chinese. In fact, this evidence is Edenic in nature, or at least Noachan. That is to say, there is evidence from the earliest Chinese pictographs that first people inhabiting the region we call China knew of the Hebrew account of creation. This is according to the studies of Ethel R. Nelson, Richard E. Broadberry, C. H. Kang, et al. In a series of three small books, Nelson out lines the meaning of the earliest known Chinese pictographs on tortise shells. There are over 150,000 of these “oracle bone” specimens, some of which date from over 3,500 years ago. (The first dictionary attempting to account for their meanings was complied in 121 AD by Xu Shen, called the Shuo Wen…

continue reading David Yeagley’s… Jews in China

Sphere: Related Content

Tags: , , ,

This entry was posted on Saturday, March 15th, 2008 at 6:12 am and is filed under Worth Quoting. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “Judaism in China”

Aurora March 15th, 2008 at 6:46 am

That’s interesting. I wonder how many are there now. I know a family who fled Russia just after the fall of the Iron Curtain and never looked back. I don’t think repressive regimes treat Jews (or Christians) very well. It seems to be in their nature.

zee March 15th, 2008 at 11:59 am

I don’t think repressive regimes treat Jews (or Christians) very well. It seems to be in their nature.

Yup, darkness always seeks to extinguish the light.

Bob March 15th, 2008 at 4:35 pm

May God bkessw them.

zee March 15th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

Bob
Yes, may God indeed bless them.

And if “bkessw-ing” them provides an additional boon, may He do that,too. ;)

Leave a Reply