Editing Tarshish (section)

===Spain===
[[Rufus Festus Avienus]] the Latin writer of the 4th century AD, identified Tarshish as [[Cadiz]].<ref>William Parkin - 1837 "Festus Avinus says expressly that Cadiz was Tarshish. This agrees perfectly with the statement of Ibn Hankal, who no doubt reports the opinion of the Arabian geographers, that Phoenicia maintained a direct intercourse with Britain in later ..."</ref> This is the theory espoused by Father Mapple in Chapter 9 of ''[[Moby Dick]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/42/moby-dick/634/chapter-9-the-sermon/|title = Chapter 9: The Sermon &#124; Moby Dick &#124; Herman Melville &#124; Lit2Go ETC}}</ref>

Some biblical commentators as early as 1646 ([[Samuel Bochart]]) read it as [[Tartessos]] in ancient Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula), near Huelva and Sevilla today.<ref name="Jewish">{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=73&letter=T&search=tarshish |chapter=Tarshish |title=[[Jewish Encyclopedia]] |editor1-link=Isidore Singer |editor1=Singer, Isidore |editor2-link=M. Seligsohn |editor2=Seligsohn, M.}}</ref> [[Samuel Bochart|Bochart]], the 17th&nbsp;century French Protestant pastor, suggested in his ''Phaleg'' (1646) that Tarshish was the city of [[Tartessos]] in southern [[Spain]]. He was followed by others, including [[Joseph H. Hertz|Hertz]] (1936).