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  • From: "M. Brody" <mbrody AT earthling.net>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Khalil (Hebron)
  • Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 18:57:38 +0200


Thank you Walter Mattfeld for your letter 0n 17:30 24/03/99 +0100. You wrote:
>Perhaps someone can explain why Hebron is rendered as el-Khalil on later
maps while the
>Palestine Exploration Fund Map of 1878 (sheet xxi, London) renders it as
el-Khulil. How
>did "u" come to be later rendered as "a" ? Are both renderings correct or
is the 1878
>rendering a mistake ? Thanks,

"el-Khalil"- is a fair transliteration of the Arabic appelation for the
Patriarch Avraham [the friend/the loved one], and hence for the city he
purchased: Hevron.
Or the PEF had a different transliteration system, or its a mistake.

Menachem
.


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  • Khalil (Hebron), Walter Mattfeld, 03/24/1999
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    • Re: Khalil (Hebron), M. Brody, 03/24/1999

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