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The largest cities of the Bronze Age Near East housed several tens of thousands of people. Memphis in the Early Bronze Age , with some 30,000 inhabitants, was the largest city of the time by far. Ebla is estimated to have had a population of 40,000 inhabitants in the Intermediate Bronze age . [ 1 ]
Arbela (Erbil/Irbil) – Assyrian city; Archevite; Armenia – Indo-European kingdom of eastern Asia Minor and southern Caucasus. Arrapkha – Assyrian city, modern Kirkuk; Ashdod; Ashkelon; Ashur/Asshur/Assur – capital city of Assyria; Assyria – Mesopotamian Semitic state
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
12 cities were for the Merarites. The six cities which were to be Cities of Refuge were Golan, Ramoth, and Bezer, on the east of the Jordan River, [4] and Kedesh, Shechem, and Hebron on the western side. [5] Map of the territory of Benjamin, with the Levitical cities of Almon, Anathoth, Geba and Gibeon circled with common land.
Schley, Donald G. Shiloh: A Biblical City in Tradition and History, Sheffield, 1989, 2009. This is the only in-depth study of Shiloh from a textual, historical and archaeological perspective available; provides an exhaustive bibliography going back to 1805, which includes Albright's critical articles and insights.
Salem (sha'lem) [Cana'anite patron god; son of 'Ashtar] is a city mentioned in the biblical Old Testament. It was the royal city of Melchizedek and traditionally identified with Jerusalem. [14] Salem, Alabama; Salem, Arkansas Salem, Fulton County, Arkansas; Salem, Saline County, Arkansas; Salem, Connecticut; Salem, Florida; Salem, Georgia ...
At this point, Moses separated three cities of refuge on the east side. [9] Later on, it is prescribed that three cities of refuge be set aside in Canaan once it is conquered, [10] with three additional cities to be set aside "if the Lord your God enlarges your territory". [11] Thus, the total number of cities could be as high as nine.
The Land of Moab: Travels and Discoveries on the East Side of the Dead Sea and the Jordan (Second ed.). London: John Murray. MacDonald, Burton (2020). A History of Ancient Moab from the Ninth to First Centuries BCE. SBL Press. ISBN 978-1-62837-268-7. Routledge, Bruce (2004). Moab in the Iron Age: Hegemony, Polity, Archaeology. University of ...