Ophir: its location unveiled
By Emilio Spedicato
Paper given at the 2010 Conference of Quantavolution
Abstract: Ophir is the name of a geographic location appearing in several passages in the Bible. Most notably it appears as the far away place wherefrom Solomon imported a huge quantity of gold, a source that about a century later was no more available. It has always been an open problem whether the place was real or fictitious, and if real where its location was. Here, using philological analysis, historic information previously neglected and especially a geographic information made available only at the end of the nineteenth century, but unknown apparently to scholars, we give a location for Ophir that agrees with the ancient data.
Click here to read this article from the 2010 Conference of Quantavolution
