Lachish — Atlas
…The LACHISH LETTERS, ostraca from its last days before Babylon destroyed it in 586, are among the oldest Hebrew documents…
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Sidon — Atlas
…Homer already knows it for skilled craftsmen and traders; the Hebrew Bible often uses 'Sidonian' loosely for Phoenicians generally, Tyre…
Joppa — Atlas
…these pages), the first of four verses of the Hebrew Bible that name it. Jonah’s own town, Gath-hepher…
Bethel — Atlas
…names are one place — the one of the three Hebrew occurrences of this directional form (Genesis 35:6, Joshua 16…
Moserah — Atlas
…The neighbouring names of v7, Gudgodah and Jotbathah, are unidentified too; Jotbathah is described in the Hebrew as eretz nachalei…
Aram-naharaim (Paddan-aram) — Atlas
…open; the name stands in five verses of the Hebrew Bible, this one, Genesis 24:10, Judges 3:8, 1…
The Valley of Achor — Atlas
…The name stands in five verses of the Hebrew Bible: twice there; Joshua 15:7, where it is a point…
Habakkuk 1
…him “Habacuc.” ⚠ And Habakkuk has a distinction almost no biblical book can match: we have an ancient commentary on it…
The Ascent of Scorpions — Atlas
…ascensum Scorpionis, 'the ascent of the Scorpion', singular where the Hebrew is plural. This project had already decided the same…
Gibeon — Atlas
…no king of Gibeon is named anywhere in the Hebrew Bible, though Joshua 10:2 (now on these pages) calls…
