Real Jerusalem part 5 - Why did Jerome use the word Bosphorus ?
Jerome, author of translation of the Bible into Latin (the Vulgate) used the word Bosphorus in Obadiah 1:20.
Et transmigratio exercitus hujus Filiorum Izraelu
omnia loca Chananæorum usque ad Sareptam:
et transmigratio Jerozolima, quæ in Bosphoro est,
possidebit civitates Austri.
The same word appears in one English translation as well ( Douay–Rheims), from 1610.
And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel, all the places of the Chanaanites even to Sarepta: and the captivity of Jerusalem that is in Bosphorus, shall possess the cities of the south.
The term ‘Bosphorus’ had no reason to appear in the Bible, because it is simply not the place where the events from the Old Testament officially took place.
But it does appear. Why ?
Let’s look at other English translations:
https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Obadiah%201:20
In most, the word ‘Bosphorus’ was replaced with ‘Sepharade’. It is supposedly a place of ‘uncertain location’. We will examine whether it is actually true.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-20.htm
in Sepharad—that is, the Bosphorus [Jerome, from his Hebrew Instructor]. Sephar, according to others (Ge 10:30). Palæography confirms Jerome. In the cuneiform inscription containing a list of the tribes of Persia [Niebuhr, Tab. 31.1], before Ionia and Greece, and after Cappadocia, comes the name CPaRaD. It was therefore a district of Western Asia Minor, about Lydia, and near the Bosphorus. (…). Sepharad, though literally the district near the Bosphorus, represents the Jews’ far and wide dispersion. Jerome says the name in Assyrian means a boundary, that is, „the Jews scattered in all boundaries and regions
As you can see from the above, it is said that Jerome had a different opinion than his Hebrew tutor, because he claimed that Sepharad is a metaphor.
The last sentence from the commentary above (marked in brown) is zionist lie of so called diaspora. As for the ‘chosen nation’ ‘return’ to a ‘promised land’ I encourage to go back to this part again: Real Jerusalem part 4 - "Wonders" of Israel
You can read more about this ‘metaphysical’ nonsense here: http://www.truthunity.net/texts/mbd/sepharad
Jerome used the word Bosphorus anyway and made a huge problem to the future Masoretes and the whole judaism.
Let’s see where Sepharad is and what secrets it has to tell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardis
Sardis or Sardes (Lydian: Sfard; Ancient Greek: Σάρδεις Sardeis; Old Persian: Sparda) was an ancient city at the location of modern Sart (Sartmahmut before 19 October 2005) in Turkey’s Manisa Province. Sardis was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepharad
Sepharad, or Sefarad, or Sfard, is a biblical place name of uncertain location. It is mentioned only once in the Bible, in the Book of Obadiah Obadiah 1:20. There are, however, Old Persian inscriptions that refer to two places called Saparda (alternative reading: Sparda): one area in Media and another in Asia Minor. It is speculated that Sepharad could have been Sardis, whose native Lydian name is Sfard.
Since the period of Roman Antiquity, after the Peshitta of the 2nd century, Spanish Jews gave the name „Sepharad” to the Iberian peninsula.[1] The descendants of Iberian Jews refer to themselves as Sephardi Jews (Hebrew, plural: Sephardim) and identify Spain as „Sepharad” in modern Hebrew
Sfard = Sepharad = Sardis (todays Sart)
Uncertain location ? Let’s go further.
Genesis 10:30 (KJ21) | In Context | Whole Chapter
30 And their dwelling was from Mesha as thou goest unto Sephar, a mount of the east.
I would like to recall this fragment:
in Sepharad—that is, the Bosphorus [Jerome, from his Hebrew Instructor]. Sephar, according to others (Ge 10:30). (...) It is speculated that Sepharad could have been Sardis, whose native Lydian name is Sfard.
Let’s see where Sardis is located.
(Yorosalim is Yoros, Turkey, near the Bosphorus straits)
At mountains foothills :)
Two more interesting translations:
Genesis 10:30 (CJB)
30 Their territory stretched from Mesha, as you go toward S’far, to the mountain in the east
Genesis 10:30 (MSG) | In Context | Whole Chapter
Their land goes from Mesha toward Sephar as far as the mountain ranges in the east.
Mountain ranges. And what can we see on the last picture ?
When you don’t know where the real ancient Jerusalem was, you can speculate. If you have the knowledge then everything becomes clear and legible: the exiles of Jerusalem were not rushed more than 1500 km from Palestine, but from Jerusalem on the Bosphorus to the nearby Sepharad (Sardes, Sart) also know from Revelations. Sardes is one of the...7 churches of Revelation.
Jerome perfectly knew where the events from the Old Testament took place, that is why he used the word Bosphorus.
In the end, let’s look at Septuagint.
Obadiah 1:20
and the captives of Jerusalem shall inherit as far as Ephratha; they shall inherit the cities of the south.
Other translations use the term ‘who are in’, like here:
Obadiah 1:20 (KJ21)
and the captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess (inherit) the cities of the south.
As you can see, in Septuagint the mention of Bosphorus/Sepharad was removed. Because these were too problematic. The whole core of the sentence giving the information on where those exiles were taken to, was removed.
They were in Sepharad, near the Bosphorus. That is where the events described in Obadiah 1:20 took place :)