Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Walter R. Mattfeld" <mattfeld12 AT charter.net>]

Yigal is quite right about the absence of the name "Amalek" in Ancient Near
Eastern sources, outside of the Hebrew Bible, of the Iron II period (ca. the
9th-6th century BCE) or earlier.

My own research has, however, noted some _possible_ "remnants" of the name
in geographical landforms and sites on maps of the Negev.

Musil's map (cf. Alois Musil. _Karte von Arabia Petraea_. Vienna, Austria.
1907. Scale: 1:300,000) has the following (note his spellings differ from
modern renderings) :

1) A region called Rmejlet el-M'allaka SW of Bir es-Seba (modern Beersheba)
and N of el-Halasa/Khalasa, and E of ard es-Sini

2) Ma'el -Mallaka near Wadi el-Mallaka, on the SW side of Rmejlet
el-M'allaka

3) A town called Malek, W of Tell al-Fare (Modern Tell Farah)

Regards, Walter

Walter Reinhold Warttig Mattfeld y de la Torre, MA Ed.

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