Thanks for the reminder that the form Urusalima occurs in the Amarna
letters. That is of course (by any chronology) older than both the
form yrw$lym in DSS and the form Shalem in the inscription which Rohl
mentions. There is of course no contradiction between Urusalima and
Shalem, for S and Sh were often interchanged between languages and
names are commonly abbreviated in Egyptian.
Peter Kirk
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Subject: Re[5]: yrw$lym
Author: <mc2499 AT mclink.it> at Internet
Date: 24/09/1999 05:34
Dear Peter,
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.. It was to decide that Jerusalem was probably some name that Kitchen
thought it was notwithstanding the fact that the Egyptian chancelry knew
the city in the Amarna letters as Urusalima.