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Javan (Hebrew יָוָן, Standard Hebrew Yavan, Tiberian Hebrew Yāwān) was the fourth son of Noah's son Japheth according to the "Table of Nations" (Genesis chapter 10) in the Hebrew Bible. Flavius Josephus states the traditional view that this individual was the ancestor of the Greek people.
Also serving as the Hebrew name for Greece or Greeks in general, Yavan or (Tiberian) Yāwān (יָוָן) is probably cognate with the name of the eastern Greeks, the Ionians (Greek Iōnes, earlier Ιαϝονες Iawones). The Greek race has been known by cognate names throughout the Eastern Mediterranean and beyond—even in Sanskrit (yavana). In Greek mythology, the eponymous forefather of the Ionians is similarly called Ion, a son of Apollo.
Javan is also found in apocalyptic literature in the Book of Daniel, 8:21-22 and 11:2, in reference to the King of Greece (יון)—most commonly interpreted as a reference to Alexander the Great.
While Javan is generally associated with the ancient Greeks and Greece (cf. Gen. 10:2, Dan. 8:21, Zech. 9:13, etc.), his sons (as listed in Genesis 10) are usually associated with locations in the Northeastern Mediterranean Sea and Anatolia: Elishah (modern Cyprus), Tarshish (modern southern Turkey), Kittim (modern Cyprus), and Dodanim (alt. 1 Chron. 1:7 'Rodanim,' the island of Rhodes, west of modern Turkey between Cyprus and the mainland of Greece).
Actors: Jeff Joslin (producer), Jeff Joslin (editor), Jeff Joslin (actor), Jeff Joslin (director), Jeff Joslin (writer), Ashley Shelton (actress), Justice Joslin (actor), Andres Diaz (actor), Schumer (actor), Javan Joslin (actor),
Genres: Horror,Actors: Jesse Garcia (actor), Scott Butler (actor), Rosa Isela Frausto (actress), Güstavo Stebner (writer), Güstavo Stebner (director), Dove Meir (actor), Tia Barr (actress), Ezra Saint James (actress), Ami Sheth (actress), Lizzie Thrasher (actress), Jordan Wentz (actor), Valerie Farrow (actress), Terrence Terrell (actor), Larayia Gaston (actress), Molly Marlette (actress),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Davy Rothbart (actor), Davy Rothbart (producer), David Meiklejohn (director), David Meiklejohn (editor), Gulliver Gold (producer), Sarah Locke (actor), Javan Makhmali (actor), Alexandra Gross (actor),
Plot: My Heart Is An Idiot is a documentary about love that spans two years and over a hundred cities. The film captures Davy Rothbart's manic road-tripping lifestyle as he tours North America in a van promoting his magazine FOUND, an annual collection of discarded and recovered notes, letters, photographs, and ephemera. Along the way, Davy seeks advice on his tortured love life from a motley crew of characters (including Zooey Deschanel, Ira Glass, Newt Gingrich, and Davy's mom), and attempts to follow that advice, with alternately comical and tragic results. Like Sherman's March doused in Maker's Mark, My Heart Is An Idiot is a cautionary kiss on the lips of Generation Irony. When everyone has a strategy, love is unbelievable.
Genres: Documentary, Drama, Romance,