The Septuagint, the Vulgate, and the Targum of Jonathan render Tarshish as Carthage, but other biblical commentators as early as 1646 (Samuel Bochart) read it as Tartessos in ancient Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula), near Huelva and Sevilla today.[1] The Jewish-Portuguese scholar, politician, statesman and financier Isaac Abarbanel (A.D. 1437–1508) described Tarshish as “the city known in earlier times as Carthage and today called Tunis."[2] One possible identification for many centuries preceding the French scholar Bochart (d. 1667), and following the Roman historian Flavius Josephus (d. 100 A.D.), had been with inland town of Tarsus in Cilicia (south-central Turkey).