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.

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…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…

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  1. 1
    Aurora

    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.

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    zee

    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.

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    Bob

    May God bkessw them.

  4. 4
    Bob

    Bless

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    zee

    Bob
    Yes, may God indeed bless them.

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

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