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Wasn't there something about one of the sources of King Solomon's temple treasures (Ophir) being on the West coast of india -- a land traded through the Red Sea? I think it would be pretty certain that the Phoenicians would have had trading posts in the Gulf of Aqaba to trade with Yemen, Ethiopia, East Africa and West India.
34 posted on 02/23/2004 1:17:39 PM PST by Cronos (W2K4!)
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To: Cronos
Wasn't there something about one of the sources of King Solomon's temple treasures (Ophir) being on the West coast of india -- a land traded through the Red Sea? I think it would be pretty certain that the Phoenicians would have had trading posts in the Gulf of Aqaba to trade with Yemen, Ethiopia, East Africa and West India.

Yes; and the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 also mentions a number of nations on the trade route between the Red Sea and India. Josephus comments on this in Book I Chapter 6 of his Antiquities of the Jews, where he mentions, "Shem, the third son of Noah, had five sons, who inhabited the land that began at Euphrates, and reached to the Indian Ocean." Also, Herodotus mentions this interesting fact about the Phoenicians in the opening sentences of Book I of his History:

According to the Persians best informed in history, the Phoenicians. . .had formerly dwelt on the shores the Erythraean Sea [Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf], having migrated to the Mediterranean and settled in the parts which they now inhabit, began at once, they say, to adventure on long voyages, freighting their vessels with the wares of Egypt and Assyria. They landed at many places on the coast, and among the rest at Argos, which was then pre-eminent above all the states included now under the common name of Hellas [Greece].

42 posted on 02/23/2004 1:36:22 PM PST by Fedora
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