Jawan

Jawan ( Hebrew יָוָן) was a son of Japhet and grandson of Noah according to Gen 10.2 EU in the table of nations (Bible) . His brothers were called Gomer , Magog , Madai , Tubal , Meschech and Tiras . The brothers Meschech and Tubal are also mentioned in Ez 27.13 EU . According to Gen 10.4 EU and 1 Chr 1.7 EU , his sons were Elisha, Tarsis , the Kitteans and the Rodanites . Otherwise nothing is known about him.

Bible

Isa. 66, 19; Hezech., 27, 13, 19; Dan. 8, 21; 10, 20; 11, 2; Joel 3, 6; Zach. 9, 13.

Translations

In the Septuagint Jawan is translated as Ιωνοι (Ionoi) (Javan in the Vulgate ), since then the equation with the Greeks or ( Hellenes ) has been common.

Localization

Flavius Josephus (Jüdische Antiquities I. 124) equated Jawan with the Ionians , regarded Jawan as the forefather of the Greeks; Isidore of Seville with the Greeks as a whole. Bernhard Stade , on the other hand, only wanted to see the Ionians from Asia Minor in Jawan . Ernst Curtius assumed that the Ionians came from Asia Minor. Later the view prevailed that the Ionian cities in Asia Minor had been laid out by settlers from mainland Greece, making this interpretation difficult. Therefore, Bury assumed that the name Jawan referred to the pre-Greek population of Ionia and was later transferred to the Ionians and the Greeks as a whole. Robertson wants to equate Jawan with the Phoenicians , but does not rule out a later transfer of the name to the Ionians.

Robertson uses an Assyrian geographic list to locate Jawan. The list includes Hi-lak-ku ( Cilicia ), Ia- [a -?] - na and Mi-li-ti ( Meliddu ) one after the other . Robertson follows Lenormant's reading as Javanu. The Kition stele , however, makes it clear that Ia- [a -?] - na is Ia-ad-na, Cyprus.

Robertson and others also tried to locate the settlement area of Elisha, Jawan's eldest son, using the note Ez 28.7 EU ("purple and red purple from the islands of Elisha was your cabin roof") and put together previous attempts at localization. Such speculative attempts at localization derived from individual passages in the Bible are no longer common in research today.

Individual evidence

^ E. Dhorme, Les Peuples issus de Japhet d'après le chapitre X de la Genèse. Syria 13/1, 1932, 35
↑ Isidore : "Iavan, a quo Iones, qui et Graeci"; in: Etymologiae 9.2.28 , Lindsay 1911
↑ De populo Javan parergon patrio sermone conscriptum, Giessen 1880, after E. Robertson, Notes on Javan. The Jewish Quarterly Review 20/3, 1908, 469
^ The Ionians before the Ionian Migration, 1885
^ Historical Review 1900, 288, after E. Robertson, Notes on Javan. The Jewish Quarterly Review 20/3, 1908, 469
^ E. Robertson, Notes on Javan. The Jewish Quarterly Review 20/3, 1908, 480
^ Cuneiforn Inscriptions of Western Asia 11, p. 533
↑ Journal des Savants 1882, 484
^ E. Robertson, Notes on Javan. The Jewish Quarterly Review 20/3, 1908, pp. 466-508.

[1] E. Dhorme, Les Peuples issus de Japhet d'après le chapitre X de la Genèse. Syria 13/1, 1932, 35

[2] Isidore : "Iavan, a quo Iones, qui et Graeci"; in: Etymologiae 9.2.28 , Lindsay 1911

[3] De populo Javan parergon patrio sermone conscriptum, Giessen 1880, after E. Robertson, Notes on Javan. The Jewish Quarterly Review 20/3, 1908, 469

[4] The Ionians before the Ionian Migration, 1885

[5] Historical Review 1900, 288, after E. Robertson, Notes on Javan. The Jewish Quarterly Review 20/3, 1908, 469

[6] E. Robertson, Notes on Javan. The Jewish Quarterly Review 20/3, 1908, 480

[7] Cuneiforn Inscriptions of Western Asia 11, p. 533

[8] Journal des Savants 1882, 484

[9] E. Robertson, Notes on Javan. The Jewish Quarterly Review 20/3, 1908, pp. 466-508.