Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Polycarp66 AT aol.com]

In a message dated 7/19/2002 7:02:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, rosewalk AT concentric.net writes:


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


This is something of a revelation to me since I had never heard it previously.  It seems somewhat problematic, however, since the Sephardic Jews are from Spain -- correct?  Columbus was Italian.

gfsomsel