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Tarshish occurs in the Hebrew Bible with these meanings:

One of the sons of Javan (Genesis 10:4). The term Hebrew Bible is a generic reference to those books of the Bible originally written in Biblical Hebrew (and the related Biblical Aramaic This article is about the Biblical name Javan. For Katherine Kurtz 's fictional character see Javan of Gwynedd.
The name of a remote place across the sea which first comes into notice in the days of Solomon (1 Kings 10:22). King Solomon ( Ge'ez: ስለሞን Arabic: ar سليمان, Sulayman, all from the Triliteral root S-L-M, "peace"
- Flavius Josephus (Antiquitates Iudaicae i. Josephus (AD 37 – c 100 also known as Yosef Ben Matityahu (Joseph son of Matthias and after he became a Roman citizen, as Titus Flavius Josephus 6, § 1) reads "Tarshush", identifiying it as the city of Tarsus in southern Asia Minor which was referred to in Assyrian records from the reign of Esarhaddon as Tarsisi. Tarsus ( Greek Ταρσός is a City, and a large district in Mersin Province, Turkey, from the city of Mersin and near (40 Esarhaddon (Greek and Biblical form Akkadian Aššur-ahhe-iddina " Ashur has given a brother to me" was a king of Assyria who reigned Prior to this time, the Assyrians referred to Tarsus as Tarzi. Modern research has shown that the metals the Old Testament associates with Tarshish existed in the Taurus Mountains north of Tarsus. For the Taurus Mountains on the moon see Montes Taurus. For Mount Taurus outside Cold Spring New York, see Bull Hill. In addition, Phoenician inscriptions have been found at Karatepe in Cilicia^[1]. Karatepe, ("Black Hill" is a Late Hittite fortress and Open air museum in Osmaniye Province in southern Turkey. Geography Cilicia extended along the Aegean coast east from Pamphylia, to Mount Amanus ( Gavurdağı Mount) which separated it from Syria Bunsen and Sayce ^[2] follow Josephus. Christian Charles Josias Baron von Bunsen ( August 25, 1791 &ndash November 28, 1860) was a German Diplomat and scholar Sayce is a surname and may refer to Archibald Sayce (1846-1933 British linguist and Assyriologist Conrad Sayce, Australian architect
- However, the name is sometimes also used in more general meanings. The Bible uses the term ships of Tarshish to denote large ships intended for large voyages whatever their destination;^[3] some Bible translations, including the NIV, go as far as to translate the phrase ship(s) of Tarshish as "trading ship(s)," and Jonah's fleeing to Tarshish may need to be taken as "a place very far away" rather than a precise geographical term. The New International Version is an English Translation of the Christian Bible. According to the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh / Old Testament) and Qur'an, Jonah (; Arabic: يونس, Yunus or
- Bochart (in his Phaleg) and later authors like Hertz (1936) identify Tarshish as the city of Tartessos in Southern Spain. Phaleg is also the name of an Olympian spirit. Phaleg is an Italian musical group classified as "world music" Joseph Herman Hertz, CH ( 25 September 1872 – 14 January 1946) was the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire. Tartessos (also Tartessus) was a harbor city and its surrounding culture on the south coast of the Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. In the Oracle against Tyre, the prophet Ezekiel (27:12) mentions that silver, iron, lead and tin came to Tyre from Tarshish (Trsys). Tyre ( Arabic صور Ṣūr, Phoenician Phoenician wawsvg|12px|ו]] Ṣur, Hebrew In Religion, a prophet (or prophetess) is a person who has encountered the Supernatural or the divine and serves as an intermediary According to religious texts Ezekiel ((יְחֶזְקֵאל Yehezkel, jəx They were stored in Tyre and resold, probably to Mesopotamia.
- The Septuagint and the Vulgate in several passages translate it with Carthage, apparently following a Jewish tradition found in the Targum of Jonathan ("Afriki", i. The Septuagint (ˈsɛptuədʒɪnt or simply " LXX " is the Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, translated in stages between the The Vulgate is an early Fifth Century version of the Bible in Latin, and largely the result of the labours of Jerome, who was commissioned by Carthage (Καρχηδών Karkhēdōn, Carthago from the Phoenician קרת חדשת phn-Latn Qart-ḥadašt meaning new town) refers e. , Carthage)^[3].
- Le Page Renouf^[4] thought that "Tarshish" means a coast, and, as the word occurs frequently in connection with Tyre, the Phoenician coast is to be understood.
- Cheyne ^[5] thinks that "Tarshish" of Gen 10:4 and "Tiras" of Gen 10:2, are really two names of one nation derived from two different sources, and might indicate the Tyrsenians or Etruscans. Tiras was according to and Chronicles 1 the last-named son of Japheth who is otherwise unmentioned in the Hebrew Bible. The Tyrrhenians ( Attic Greek Turrēnoi) or Tyrsenians ( Ionic Tursēnoi, Doric Tursānoi) is an Exonym Thus the name may denote Italy or the European coasts west of Greece.
In the Torah, it is also the name of a gem-stone associated with the Tribe of Asher that has been identified as chrysolite or aquamarine. term " Torah " ( Hebrew: תּוֹרָה "teaching" or "instruction" sometimes translated as "Law" most commonly refers to Asher ( in the Book of Genesis, is the second son of Jacob and Zilpah, and the founder of the Tribe of Asher. The Mineral olivine (when gem-quality also called Peridot) is a Magnesium Iron silicate with the formula ( Mg Aquamarine (Lat aqua marinā, "water of the sea" is a Gemstone -quality transparent variety of Beryl, having a delicate blue or Turquoise [1]
One of King Ahasuerus' seven advisors who were princes of Persia and Media. Ahasuerus ( Latin: Xerxes, Persian: Khashayarshah, commonly transliterated Achashverosh) is a name used several times in the The Persian Empire was a series of Iranian empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland and beyond in Western Asia The Medes were an ancient Iranian people who lived in the northwestern portions of present-day Iran. [2]

In later history

Tarshish is the name of a village in Lebanon. The village is located in the Baabda Kadaa at an elevation of 1400m and is 50 km away from Beirut.

Around 1665, the followers of Shabbatai Zvi in İzmir interpreted the ships of Tarshish as Dutch ships that would transport them to the Holy Land. Sabbatai Zevi, ( (other spellings include Sabetay in Turkish, Shabbethai, Sabbetai, Shabbsai; Zvi; Sabbetai İzmir, historically Smyrna, is the third most populous city of Turkey and the country's largest port after İstanbul. The Holy Land ( Arabic: الأرض المقدسة al-Arḍ ul-Muqaddasah;Ancient Aramaic: ארעא קדישא Ar'a Qaddisha; Hebrew: ארץ_הקודש

Some Old Testament scholars believe the Tarshish power to be Britain and possibly related to an Eastern Tarshish, namely India. Some, looking for the 2nd coming of Jesus and the Kingdom of God based round the land of Israel, believe that the prophecies regarding the Tarshish power have their latter day fulfilment in modern times.

Tarshish was also the name of a short-lived political party founded by would-be assassin of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, Moshe Dwek. Moshe Dwek (משה דואק born in 1931) was a Yemenite Jewish immigrant most notable for throwing a Hand grenade in the Knesset

The Greek form of the name, Tharsis, was given by Giovanni Schiaparelli to a region on Mars. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly The Tharsis region on Mars is an enormous Volcanic plateau located on Mars' equator at the western end of Valles Marineris. Honors and Awards Awards Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1872 Bruce Medal (1902 Named

Another theory is by Fr. Francisco Collin SJ. He claims that the Filipino people were descendants of Tarshish.

In Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick, Father Mapple gives a sermon on the story of Jonah. Herman Melville (August 1 1819 &ndash September 28 1891 was an American novelist Short story writer Essayist and poet A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Moby-Dick is an 1851 Novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaleship According to the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh / Old Testament) and Qur'an, Jonah (; Arabic: يونس, Yunus or Father Mapple identifies the Tarshish to which Jonah flees with the port of Cádiz in Spain, "as far by water, from Joppa, as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea" (Chapter 9, "The Sermon"). ||-||-|-||-||-||-||-||-||-|} A port is a facility for receiving Ships and transferring cargo Cádiz ( Spanish:) is a city and port in southwestern Spain. It is the capital of the province of the same name, a province which is one of eight Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.

References

^ p. 336 "Karatepe," Charles F. Pfeiffer. The Biblical World, A Dictionary of Biblical Archaeology. Nashville, Tennessee. Broadman Press. 1966
^ Expository Times, Christian Charles Josias Bunsen and Sayce, 1902, p. Christian Charles Josias Baron von Bunsen ( August 25, 1791 &ndash November 28, 1860) was a German Diplomat and scholar Sayce is a surname and may refer to Archibald Sayce (1846-1933 British linguist and Assyriologist Conrad Sayce, Australian architect 179)
^ ^a ^b "Tarshish" in the Jewish Encyclopedia, by Isidore Singer and M. Seligsohn. The Jewish Encyclopedia was an Encyclopedia originally published between 1901 and 1906 by Funk and Wagnalls. Isidore Singer (1859–1939 was an editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia and founder of the American League for the Rights of Man. Max Seligsohn ( April 13, 1865, Russia &ndash) was a Russian- American Orientalist.
^ Procedures of the Society for Biblical Archaeology, xvi. 104 et seq. , Le Page Renouf
^ Orientalische Litteraturzeitung, iii. 151, Cheyne

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