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Kittim was a settlement in present-day Larnaca on the east coast of Cyprus, known in ancient times as Kition, or (in Latin) Citium. On this basis, the whole island became known as "Kittim" in Hebrew, including the Hebrew Bible. However the name seems to have been employed with some flexibility in Hebrew literature. It was often applied to all the Aegean islands and even to "the W[est] in general, but esp[ecially] the seafaring W[est]".[1] Flavius Josephus (c. 100 AD) records in his Antiquities of the Jews that
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 Book of Jeremiah 2:10 and Ezekiel 27:6, indicates that, some centuries prior to Josephus, this designation had already become a general descriptor for the Mediterranean islands.[3] Sometimes this designation was further extended to apply to Romans, Macedonians or Seleucid Greeks. The Septuagint translates the occurrence of "Kittim" in the Book of Daniel 11:30 as Ῥωμαῖοι ("Romans"). 1 Maccabees 1:1 states that "Alexander the Great the Macedonian" had come from the "land of Kittim".[4] In the War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness from the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Kittim are referred to as being "of Asshur".[5] Eleazar Sukenik argued that this reference to Asshur should be understood to refer to the Seleucid Empire which controlled the territory of the former Assyrian Empire at that time, but his son Yigael Yadin interpreted this phrase as a veiled reference to the Romans.[6]
Answers in Genesis identifies the Greek god Cronus with Javan's son Kittim,[7] while others (including the Worldwide Church of God) have suggested that Kittim became the progenitor of various eastern Asian peoples.[8]
^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".
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