Abstract
Abstract Following the arrival of Christian missionaries in China, classical European languages also entered China. Whereas Chinese Catholic candidates for priesthood received Latin theological education since the seventeenth century, systematic teaching and learning of the biblical languages Greek and Hebrew only started in the early twentieth century. This essay gives an outline of the spread of classical languages in China, related missionary efforts, educational institutions, Chinese Bible translations, and early Chinese Latinists, some of them trained overseas. The last section considers developments of the twentieth century and the present state of the study of biblical languages in China.
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