Kittim

Kittim was a settlement in present-day

Flavius Josephus (c. 100 AD) records in his Antiquities of the Jews

Cethimus [son of Javan] possessed the island Cethima: it is now called Cyprus; and from that it is that all islands, and the greatest part of the sea-coasts, are named Cethim by the Hebrews: and one city there is in Cyprus that has been able to preserve its denomination; it has been called Citius [or Citium/Κίτιον] by those who use the language of the Greeks, and has not, by the use of that dialect, escaped the name of Cethim.^[2]

The expression "isles of Kittim", found in the

Assyrian Empire at that time, but his son Yigael Yadin interpreted this phrase as a veiled reference to the Romans.^[6]

Worldwide Church of God) have suggested that Kittim became the progenitor of various eastern Asian peoples.^[8]

Etymology

Some authors^[

Hittite Empire was known.^[9]

Hebrew Bible

Kittim (Hebrew: כִּתִּים, alternately transliterated as Chittim or Cethim) in the genealogy of
Genesis 10 in the Hebrew Bible, is the son of Javan, the grandson of Japheth, and Noah
's great-grandson.

Account in Yosippon

The mediaeval rabbinic compilation
rape of the Sabines by the Kittim, who are correlated to the Romans. This war was ended when the Kittim showed the descendants of Tubal their mutual progeny. They then built cities called Porto, Albano, and Aresah. Later, their territory is occupied by Agnias, King of Carthage, but the Kittim end up appointing Zepho, son of Eliphaz and grandson of Esau, as their king, with the title Janus Saturnus. The first king of Rome, Romulus, is made in this account to be a distant successor of this line. A shorter, more garbled version of this story is also found in the later Sefer haYashar.^[10]

See also

Sons of Noah

Javan
Elishah

Tarshish

Dodanim

Alashiya

Larnaca

References

^ The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 2, 1975. Entry on 'Kittim'.

^ Josephus, Flavius. The Antiquities of the Jews 1.6.1. Translated by William Whiston. Greek original.

^ Jewish Encyclopedia, 1906. Entry on Cyprus.

^ New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha, 1989.

^ Wise, Michael; Martin Abegg Jr.; Edward Cook. A New Translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. HarperSanFrancisco, 2005, pg. 148.

^ Eshel, Hanan. The Kittim in the War Scroll and in the Pesharim Paper presented at the Fourth Orion International Symposium, January 27–31, 1999.

^ "Did Atlantis Exist?".

^ "World News, Economics and Analysis Based on Bible Prophecy".

^ Encyclopedia Biblica, 1899. Entry on 'Kittim'.

^ Jasher 17:1-15, see: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Book_of_Jasher/Chapter_17

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[1] The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 2, 1975. Entry on 'Kittim'.

[2] Josephus, Flavius. The Antiquities of the Jews 1.6.1. Translated by William Whiston. Greek original.

[3] Jewish Encyclopedia, 1906. Entry on Cyprus.

[4] New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha, 1989.

[5] Wise, Michael; Martin Abegg Jr.; Edward Cook. A New Translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. HarperSanFrancisco, 2005, pg. 148.

[6] Eshel, Hanan. The Kittim in the War Scroll and in the Pesharim Paper presented at the Fourth Orion International Symposium, January 27–31, 1999.

[7] "Did Atlantis Exist?".

[8] "World News, Economics and Analysis Based on Bible Prophecy".

[9] Encyclopedia Biblica, 1899. Entry on 'Kittim'.

[10] Jasher 17:1-15, see: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Book_of_Jasher/Chapter_17

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