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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 is mentioned Keilah...
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    Gezer (category Amarna letters locations)
    the 2nd millennium BCE. It was later destroyed by fire and rebuilt. 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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    Jerusalem (category Amarna letters locations)
    as Rušalimum, or Urušalimum, may indicate Jerusalem. Alternatively, the Amarna letters of Abdi-Heba (1330s BCE), which reference an Úrušalim, may be the...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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