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    ʿApiru (category Amarna letters)
    raised the suggestion to read the sumerograms as this word. However, the Amarna letters attested the spelling SA.GA.AZ, and letters from Ugarit attested...
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    Keilah (category Amarna letters locations)
    west of Kharas. The earliest historical record of Keilah is found in the Amarna letters from the 14th century BCE. In some of them, Qeilah and her king...
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  • Cities in the Book of Joshua (category Amarna letters locations)
    mentioned in ancient Egyptian and Canaanite documents, most notably in the Amarna correspondence. List of biblical places List of biblical names List of minor...
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    Gezer (category Amarna letters locations)
    by Thutmose III on the walls of the Precinct of Amun-Re, at Karnak. The Amarna letters mention kings of Gezer swearing loyalty to the Egyptian pharaoh...
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  • Ancient Near East. Routledge. ISBN 041525857X.; for Amarna letters see William L., Moran (1992). The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins. ISBN 0801842514. Svetislav...
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    Ascalon (category Amarna letters locations)
    Egyptian Execration Texts from the 18th-19th centuries BC as Asqalānu. In the Amarna letters (c. 1350 BC), there are seven letters to and from King Yidya of...
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  • be mentioned in a cuneiform letter found at Taanach. According to two el-Amarna letters (289, 290) sent by the king of Jerusalem to the pharaoh, Milkilu...
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    with this population, whatever their origin. In the mid—14th century, the Amarna letters mention no Israël, nor any of the biblical tribes, while the Merneptah...
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    Iron Ages: A Proposal,” TA 27 (2000): 75–90. Na'aman, “Contribution of the Amarna Letters,” p. 23. Finkelstein, Israel; Koch, Ido; Lipschits, Oded (2011-08-22)...
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    Hebrew and Cognate Inscriptions from the Biblical Period. Jerusalem, Israel: Carta, 2008, pp. 351, 354 M. Leuenberger (2017). "YHWH's Provenance from the South"...
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    Damascus (category Amarna letters locations)
    (דַּמֶּשֶׂק) in Biblical Hebrew. A number of Akkadian spellings are found in the Amarna letters, from the 14th century BC: Dimašqa (𒁲𒈦𒋡), Dimašqì (𒁲𒈦𒀸𒄀)...
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    Canaanite proxy rulers for Egypt in 379 cuneiform tablets known as the Amarna Letters. These refer to local chieftains, such as Biridiya of Megiddo, Lib'ayu...
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    Hebrew was not highly differentiated from Ugaritic and the Canaanite of the Amarna letters. Hebrew developed during the latter half of the second millennium BCE...
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  • presented as the "commander of the whole land united in one." Except for the Amarna period, Egypt's official ideology did not recognize coexistence of two or...
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    Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, Carta, Vol. 4, pp. 1314. Luke 17:11–20 John 4:1–26 Acts 8:1 Acts 8:4–8 John 4:4...
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    Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    of mu-ukh-ra-ash-ti, sometimes rendered in English as Muhrashti, of the Amarna Letters (14th century BCE, during the Early Bronze Age) is unlikely to be...
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