Re: Who was talking about Khazaria?

On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 11:28:44 +0200 Roberto Suarez Soto <ask4it@...>
writes:
> On Oct/25/2002, Peter Clark wrote:
> >     "Ispamya" sounds a lot like "Hispanya," so I'm guessing those
> are related
> > terms. But what does "Sefarad" mean?
>         My 2 cents:
>         IIRC, Sefarad was one of the sons of some important
> character in
> jewish/christian mythology (Old Testament, I mean). Don't know who,
> but I'm pretty sure it's something like this :-)
> --
>         Roberto Suarez Soto
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I just ran "sefarad" through the biblical search engine at
http://www.snunit.k12.il/kodesh/ , all it came up with was the place name
(no genealogical attachment), in `Ovadya 1:20.  In the same verse as the
place-name "tzorfat", actually.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "aru."