The origin of the name Sepharad: a new interpretation

Since the period of Roman Antiquity, Spanish Jews gave the name Sepharad to the Iberian Peninsula. The descendants of Iberian Jews refer to themselves as Sephardim and identify Spain as Sepharad in modern Hebrew. The name Sepharad appears for the first time as a biblical place-name of uncertain loca...

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Autor: Vernet Pons, Mariona
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/164860
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Palabra clave:Filologia semítica
Etimologia
Península Ibèrica
Sefardites
Semitic philology
Etymology
Iberian Peninsula
Sephardi Jews
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spelling The origin of the name Sepharad: a new interpretationVernet Pons, MarionaFilologia semíticaEtimologiaPenínsula IbèricaSefarditesSemitic philologyEtymologyIberian PeninsulaSephardi JewsSince the period of Roman Antiquity, Spanish Jews gave the name Sepharad to the Iberian Peninsula. The descendants of Iberian Jews refer to themselves as Sephardim and identify Spain as Sepharad in modern Hebrew. The name Sepharad appears for the first time as a biblical place-name of uncertain location in the Book of Obadiah (1: 20). There are, however, Persian inscriptions that refer to two places called Sparda: one an area in Media and the other Sardis, the ancient capital of Lydia, in Asia Minor. Furthermore, some scholars defend the theory that the biblical Sepharad could be situated in Libya. The most widely accepted hypothesis is that it might have been Sardis. But the connection between the name Sepharad referring to the Iberian Peninsula and the Sepharad that appears in the Bible is not clear; neither has the idea that Sepharad could be identified with Sardis been satisfactorily explained. Finally, even in the case that we accept that Sepharad was Sardis, it is difficult to explain the relation that there could have been between the Iberian Peninsula and the ancient capital of Lydia. In this paper I want to shed some light on all these unresolved questions.Oxford University Press2014info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/164860Articles publicats en revistes (Filologia Clàssica, Romànica i Semítica)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésVersió preprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgu002Journal of Semitic Studies, 2014, num. 59, p. 297-313https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgu002(c) Vernet Pons, Mariona, 2014info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/1648602026-05-27T06:46:51Z
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title The origin of the name Sepharad: a new interpretation
spellingShingle The origin of the name Sepharad: a new interpretation
Vernet Pons, Mariona
Filologia semítica
Etimologia
Península Ibèrica
Sefardites
Semitic philology
Etymology
Iberian Peninsula
Sephardi Jews
title_short The origin of the name Sepharad: a new interpretation
title_full The origin of the name Sepharad: a new interpretation
title_fullStr The origin of the name Sepharad: a new interpretation
title_full_unstemmed The origin of the name Sepharad: a new interpretation
title_sort The origin of the name Sepharad: a new interpretation
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Filologia semítica
Etimologia
Península Ibèrica
Sefardites
Semitic philology
Etymology
Iberian Peninsula
Sephardi Jews
topic Filologia semítica
Etimologia
Península Ibèrica
Sefardites
Semitic philology
Etymology
Iberian Peninsula
Sephardi Jews
description Since the period of Roman Antiquity, Spanish Jews gave the name Sepharad to the Iberian Peninsula. The descendants of Iberian Jews refer to themselves as Sephardim and identify Spain as Sepharad in modern Hebrew. The name Sepharad appears for the first time as a biblical place-name of uncertain location in the Book of Obadiah (1: 20). There are, however, Persian inscriptions that refer to two places called Sparda: one an area in Media and the other Sardis, the ancient capital of Lydia, in Asia Minor. Furthermore, some scholars defend the theory that the biblical Sepharad could be situated in Libya. The most widely accepted hypothesis is that it might have been Sardis. But the connection between the name Sepharad referring to the Iberian Peninsula and the Sepharad that appears in the Bible is not clear; neither has the idea that Sepharad could be identified with Sardis been satisfactorily explained. Finally, even in the case that we accept that Sepharad was Sardis, it is difficult to explain the relation that there could have been between the Iberian Peninsula and the ancient capital of Lydia. In this paper I want to shed some light on all these unresolved questions.
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