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RE: Columbus - off topic

From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Columbus - off topic
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 18:01:39 -0500

As I understand, he was a Marrano (secretly a Jew, to escape death)

shoshanna

Some may find it interesting to note, as I understand it, that some
believe that Columbus was a Sephardic Jew, who undertook the trip partly
to escape persecution.

Bill Ross
BillRoss AT norisksoftware.com

RE: Columbus - off topic, Bill Ross, 07/19/2002
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- Re: Columbus - off topic, Shoshanna Walker, 07/19/2002
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- Re: Columbus - off topic, Yigal Levin, 07/21/2002