Timeline for Do Columbus' letters reveal that he was a Marrano? [closed]
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| S Feb 2, 2020 at 23:29 | history | suggested | Rodrigo de Azevedo |
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| Feb 2, 2020 at 22:57 | history | edited | Bach | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 2, 2020 at 18:58 | vote | accept | Bach | ||
| Feb 2, 2020 at 18:56 | comment | added | Bach | @tohuwawohu thanks for that link! Looks like this argument is more than 150 years old! I didn't even realize! I wish I could get a PDF of David Maurice's article. | |
| Feb 2, 2020 at 18:55 | comment | added | Bach | @LаngLаngС if you can prove that he was of Jewish origin that would suffice. In any case, the letters would prove that he considered himself Jewish as well, and was quite proud of it. | |
| Feb 2, 2020 at 18:44 | answer | added | LаngLаngС | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 2, 2020 at 17:53 | comment | added | Spencer | There is a site showing actual facsimiles of these letters; unfortunately, it requires Flash Player. | |
| Feb 2, 2020 at 17:44 | comment | added | LаngLаngС | What says your onw research so far? Are Italian converts also called marranos? Have you searched or even seen an actual hand-written letter of him? I just looked at two and saw an interesting hand which frequently uses acronyms seemingly alluding to Christianity. But a question to paleographs here: that x, or chi could also be an aleph? // That he has 'a Jewish origin' is a theory. But this Q formulates "was he a Jew". If his ancestors, converted, would he still 'be one'? Is anyone who uses some Hebrew letters 'a Jew' (then HermeneuticsSE is full of em?). Please clarify this. | |
| Feb 2, 2020 at 17:03 | comment | added | tohuwawohu | Maybe this work contains further information: David, Maurice: Who was "Columbus"? His real name and real fatherland: a sensational discovery among the archives of Spain (with photostatic reproductions of forty letters written by the discoverer of the Americas). (Link to LoC catralog entry) | |
| Feb 2, 2020 at 16:50 | comment | added | user41826 | Well, I rather believe in isotopes than question raising articles and I terribly lack imagination (if its not about ice age hunter/gatherers) :-) How much does history actually care about Columbus' eschatological world view ? Are there any chemical/physical analyses of said letters ? Published in some journal ? Anything we can really rely on ? | |
| Feb 2, 2020 at 15:42 | comment | added | Bach | @mark I know that this is the case among modern Jews even today. I myself as a Jew write bh! it's also a common Jewish expression. I need no further evidence to prove that! | |
| Feb 2, 2020 at 15:08 | comment | added | MCW♦ | I wonder if anyone can find evidence of the b'ezerat Hashem in Columbus' letters, and evidence of this custom in other Jewish writings. Right now we've got the word of one historian; science progresses by seeking and testing evidence. | |
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| Feb 2, 2020 at 14:44 | comment | added | ed.hank | I read the article too, there is no evidence there, just a bunch of conjecture that can easily be explained by other means. also i didnt downvote. | |
| Feb 2, 2020 at 14:34 | comment | added | Bach | @ed.hank and denis, what concerns me is the evidence the author brings, its not the respectability of the author, or the fact that this theory sounds cool! there is no reason to downvote this question, as it is perfectly acceptable. It's very easy to just brush away everything by saying "conspiracy theory", but the question is how do you deal with the evidence? | |
| Feb 2, 2020 at 14:27 | comment | added | tohuwawohu | This page attributes the b'ezrat Hashem theory to a "Semitic linguist Maurice David, who discovered the meaning of the symbols". Maybe Maurice David Goldman (1898-1957), linguist and professor of Semitic studies is meant? Another page has some facsimiles of the b'h monogram in Columbus' letters... | |
| Feb 2, 2020 at 14:20 | comment | added | Denis de Bernardy | Probably hearsay and conspiracy theories. The author doesn't appear to be a historian at all. | |
| Feb 2, 2020 at 14:00 | comment | added | ed.hank | and another recent "historian" said columbus was the son of a polish king... i wouldnt put much faith in either interpretation. | |
| Feb 2, 2020 at 13:33 | history | asked | Bach | CC BY-SA 4.0 |