Tarshish occurs in the Hebrew Bible with these meanings: One of the sons of Javan . The name of a remote place across the sea which first comes into notice in the days of Solomon . Flavius Josephus (Antiquitates Iudaicae i. 6, § 1) reads "Tarshush", identifying it as the city of Tarsus in southern Asia Minor which was referred to in Assyrian records from the reign of Esarhaddon as Tarsisi. Prior to this time, the Assyrians referred to Tarsus as Tarzi. Modern research has shown that the met… (More on Tarshish)