CleanupBot II: Removed empty portal template using script

2023-08-14T00:51:11Z

Removed empty portal template using script

← Older revision		Revision as of 06:21, 14 August 2023
Line 10:		Line 10:

	== See also ==		== See also ==
	~~{{Portal\|Bible\|India}}~~
	*[[List of biblical places]]		*[[List of biblical places]]
	*[[Gymnosophists]], referenced in the writings of the early Church Fathers		*[[Gymnosophists]], referenced in the writings of the early Church Fathers

Ajay Kumar: Creating a new article

2023-08-10T08:27:19Z

Creating a new article

New page

[[File:The Dominions of Solomon and his Allies.png|thumb|300px|''The Dominions of Solomon and his Allies: Sheba with the Voyage to Tarshish and Ophir'' by [[Robert Wilkinson (cartographer)|Robert Wilkinson]] (1798)]]
In [[List of biblical places|biblical geography]], India is described as bordering the [[Achaemenid Empire|Achaemenid Persian Empire]] under [[Ahasuerus]] ([[Xerxes I]]), as referenced in the Old Testament verses {{Bibleverse|Esther|1:1|KJV}} and {{Bibleverse|Esther|8:9|KJV}}.<ref name="Thundy1993">{{cite book |author1=Zacharias P. Thundy |title=India and the West in Antiquity |date=1993 |publisher=[[Brill Academic Publishers]] |page=212–267 |language=English}}</ref> {{Bibleverse|1 Maccabees|6:37|KJV}}, which is located in the [[Deuterocanonical books|Deuterocanonon]]/[[Biblical apocrypha|Aprocrypha]], references "the Indian mahouts of Antichus's war elephants (second century B.C.)".<ref name="Thundy1993"/> Archaeological findings in the cities of Sumer, including [[Kish (Sumer)|Kish]], [[Lagash]], and [[Ur]], confirm trade between [[India–Mesopotamia relations|India and Mesopatamia]].<ref name="Thundy1993"/> For example, [[ivory]] objects crafted in India have been found in Mesopotomia.<ref name="Thundy1993"/>

{{Bibleverse|1 Kings|9:26-27|KJV}} discusses the navy of [[King Solomon]] sailing to [[Ophir]] ("Sopheir" and "Sophara" in the LXX), with the word ''Sophir'' meaning ''India'' in [[Coptic language|Coptic]]; as gold was plentiful in India, it "it is generally accepted that Ophir was a port in India".<ref name="Thundy1993"/> {{Bibleverse|1 Kings|10:22|KJV}} mentions "gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks" brought by the navy of King Solomon and King Hiram to Israel.<ref name="Thundy1993"/> In the Old Testament, the word for peacock ''tuki'', the word for ivory ''shen habbim'', and the word for ape ''kof'' are likely "derived from their Indian counterparts ''tokei'', ''ab'', and ''kapi'', respectively."<ref name="Thundy1993"/> {{Bibleverse|Proverbs|7:17|KJV}}, {{Bibleverse|Psalms|45:8|KJV}}, and {{Bibleverse|Song of Solomon|4:14|KJV}} reference the Indian fragrant wood [[Agarwood|aloes]], which in the Hebrew is ''ahalim'', being derived from the Sanskrit ''agaru''.<ref name="Thundy1993"/> Contemporary Babylonian texts use the word ''sindhu'' (meaning "Indian") for linen, as with Greek texts that use the word ''sindon'' for the same.<ref name="Thundy1993"/>

The ''[[Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]]'' states, with respect to [[History of the Jews in India|Indian Jews]] being presented at [[Pentecost]]:<ref name="McClintock1872">{{cite book |last1=McClintock |first1=John |title=Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature |date=1872 |publisher=[[Harper (publisher)|Harper]] |page=551 |language=en}}</ref>
{{quotation|It is also with some reason conceived that in the list of foreign Jews present at the Pentecost (Ac 2:9) we should read Ι᾿νδίαν, ''India'', and not Ι᾿ουδαίαν, ''Judaea''; but the still more probable reading is Ι᾿δουμαίαν, ''Idumaea'', if indeed the common reading ought to be changed at all (see Kuinol, Conmment. ad loc.). The Hebrew form "''Hoddu''" is an abbreviation of ''Honadu'', which is identical with the indigenous names of the river Indus, "Hindu," or "Sindhu," and again with the ancient name of the country as it appears in the Vendidad, "Hapta Hendu." The native form "Sindus" is noticed by Pliny (vi, 23).<ref name="McClintock1872"/>}}

According to Gerald Flurry, the context of {{Bibleverse|Ezekiel|38:5|YLT}}, the descendants of [[Cush (Bible)|Cush]] and [[Put (biblical figure)|Phut]] are found in India and what is now Pakistan.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jacques |first1=Jeremiah |title=Is India in the Bible? |url=https://www.thetrumpet.com/20671-is-india-in-the-bible |publisher=[[The Philadelphia Trumpet]] |access-date=9 August 2023 |language=en |date=28 May 2019}}</ref> To this end, "the Syriac, Chaldee, and Arabic versions frequently render that term [Cush] by ''India'' or ''Indians'', as in 2Ch 21:16; Isa 11:11; Isa 18:1; Jer 13:23; Zep 3:10."<ref name="McClintock1872"/>

== See also ==
{{Portal|Bible|India}}
*[[List of biblical places]]
*[[Gymnosophists]], referenced in the writings of the early Church Fathers
*[[India (Herodotus)]]
*[[Names for India]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Geographic history of India]]
[[Category:Hebrew Bible nations]]

India (Bible) - Revision history

CleanupBot II: Removed empty portal template using script

Ajay Kumar: Creating a new article