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  • From: "Ian Hutchesson" <mc2499 AT mclink.it>
  • To: "'Biblical Hebrew'" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: R: YERUSHALEM
  • Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 06:55:39 +0100


>YERU SHALEM can never mean city of peace. How about: 'teaching
>completeness' or 'founding completeness.

The Late Bronze Age texts from el-Amarna knew the
Canaanite city as Uru-salim, ie the city of the
Canaanite god, Salim. That is plainly the origin
of the name. Later developments should be seen as
folk-etymologies.


Ian





  • R: YERUSHALEM, Ian Hutchesson, 12/29/2002

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