New York, Ephraim, and Manasseh
Contents:
(1) What is the Big Apple?
(2) Outlines for an Article by R. Schrieber
Is the "Big Apple" (NY) Hinted at in Scripture?
(3) Future Borders of Israel as Compared to those of the USA, as suggested by Dean Smallwood
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Quotations and Apaptations from:
Big Apple
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Apple
The earliest known usage of "big apple" appears in the book The Wayfarer in New York (1909), in which Edward S. Martin writes:
# Kansas is apt to see in New York a greedy city ... It inclines to think that the big apple gets a disproportionate share of the national sap. #
In this case the author compares New York to a big apple but does not "Big Apple" as a nick-name for it.
The Chicago Defender, an African-American newspaper that had a national circulation. Writing for the Defender on September 16, 1922, "Ragtime" Billy Tucker used the name "big apple" to refer to New York in a non-horse-racing context:
I trust your trip to 'the big apple' (New York) was a huge success and only wish that I had been able to make it with you.
Tucker had also earlier used "big apple" as a reference to Los Angeles. It is possible that he simply used "big apple" as a nickname for any large city:
"The Big Apple" used expressly as a nickname for New York City was first popularized in the 1920s by John J. Fitz Gerald, a sports writer for the New York Morning Telegraph. Its popularity since the 1970s is due in part to a promotional campaign by the New York tourist authorities.
In the early 1970s, however, during the city's fiscal crisis, "People were looking around desperately and some of [them] seized that old phrase the Big Apple to remind people of when New York had been a strong and powerful city and might become that again," according to the official Manhattan Borough Historian, Dr. Robert Snyder. It was then that the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau, now NYC & Company, New York City's official marketing and tourism organization), with the help of the Ogilvy & Mather advertising firm, began to promote the city's "Big Apple" nickname to tourists, under the leadership of its president, Charles Gillett.The campaign was a success, and the nickname has remained popular since then.
Today the name is used exclusively to refer to New York City, and is used with regularity by journalists and news headline writers across the English-speaking world.
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(2) Outlines for an Article by R. Schrieber
Is the "Big Apple" (NY) Hinted at in Scripture?
This passuk (verse) may be of interest to you: It may be a hint to NYC being the Big Apple.
Joshua 17:
7 And the territory of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, that lies east of Shechem; and the border went along south to the inhabitants of En Tappuah.
8 Manasseh had the land of Tappuah, but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim.
"Tapuah" ( טפוח) in Hebrew means "Apple!"
Note: In this verse it seems that there was an area known as "Tapuah" that belonged to Manasseh as well as a settlement by that name on the border that pertained to Ephraim.[Could there be some connection here to "New England"?]
So too, there is Gotham.
# Gotham City or simply Gotham, is a fictional city appearing in American comic books ...best known as the home of Batman.... Gotham City is traditionally depicted as being located in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Over the years, Gotham's look and atmosphere has been influenced by cities such as New York City and Chicago. #
"Gotham means Goats Town." Onoe of the Princes of Manasseh was named "Gadi" meaning young sheep or goat.
Numbers (Bamidbar) 13:
11 from the tribe of Joseph, that is, from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi;
Gadi can mean "young goat," cf. Gotham.
There are other verses mentioning both Manashe and Gad together as they settled east of the Jordan.
Two passukim in particular have the word Emori which may or may not symbolize America:
Numbers 32:
33 So Moses gave to the children of Gad, to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land with its cities within the borders, the cities of the surrounding country....
39 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.
In Hebrew the word translated as "Amorites" is "Amori."
This may hint at America.
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(3) Future Borders of Israel as Compared to those of the USA, as suggested by Dean Smallwood
See:
Lands of USA and Israel
A Comparison of Maps as Suggested By Dean Smallwood
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/bible/land/comparison.html
http://www.britam.org/Questions/QuesUSA.html
