On 8/3/05, Dora Smith wrote:
> I previously sent this only to Yitzhak by mistake.
>
> I am wondering; I beleive that Jerusalem actually existed for a long time,
> as a fortress; and that the archeological evidence shows that but just does
> not show that there was a city there.
>
> But if I knew it was mentioned in the Amarna letters, I've forgotten.
> Where and in what context is Jerusalem mentioned in the Amarna letters?
EA 287 specifically mentions the "attic being breached" in lines 33-46, and I
think this suggests some kind of fortress.
In her hebrew translation of the letters, Tzipora Cochavi-Rainey also mentions
the following letters in connection with Jerusalem: 271, 279, 280, 285 - 291,
366
See also: Nadav Naaman, The Contribution of the Amarna Letters to the
Debate on Jerusalem's Political Status in the Tenth Century BCE, BASOR
304 (1996), p. 17-27