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.