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How did a Roman province in Turkey end up being named "Asia"? ασιαν (asian), the original Greek word translated "Asia," originates from "Assuwa," the name of a confederacy of small states that occupied the western shores of what is Turkey today, directly east of Greece across the Aegean Sea. Over time, Greeks and the rest of Europeans came ...
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ASIA. a'-shi-a (Asia): A Roman province embracing the greater part of western Asia Minor, including the older countries of Mysia, Lydia, Caria, and a part of Phrygia, also several of the independent coast cities, the Troad, and apparently the islands of Lesbos, Samos, Patmos, Cos and others near the Asia Minor coast (Acts 16:6; Acts 19:10, 27).
Asia. ASIA ā’ zhə (̓Ασία, G823). Asia in the NT is invariably the Rom. province of that name which comprised nearly one-third of the W and SW end of the blunt peninsula known as Asia Minor. To the NE lay Bithynia, to the E were Galatia, Lycaonia, and Pisidia, to the SE Lycia. Such a description is geographical, rather than political ...
The Amplified Bible states that Revelation 2:2 through to 3:18, "your" and "you" are in the singular, referring to the angel of each church. Much of what is said is rebuke and admonishment, so if the angels are heavenly beings, they may serve in some way as representatives of the sinful people in their churches. Jewish tradition maintained that ...
Dec 13, 2013 · Turkey is 302,535 square miles. Of that, only 9200 square miles is in eastern Europe. The rest, nearly 97% of the country, is in western Asia. So even taking your statement “New Testament Asia is a Roman province, occupying roughly the western quarter of Turkey” would mean that as much as 88% of that territory was indeed in Asia.
elephants. On the contrary, the Asia that BOOK REVIEWS The Bible and Asia: From the Pre-Christian Era to the Postcolonial Age by R S Sugirtharajah (Cambridge: Massachusetts: Harvard University Press), 2013; pp 303, price not indicated. emerges from the New Testament is a Roman province, a hostile territory with unreliable people. The author ...
Aug 24, 2024 · The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in China (Online) by K. K. Yeo (Editor) Looks at the Bible and its place in China over the last thirteen hundred years. Forty-seven essays address the translation of the Bible into China's languages and dialects, expression of the Bible in Chinese literary and religious contexts, Chinese biblical interpretations and methods of reading, and the reception of the ...
