Tubu is the town east of the
Sea of Galilee
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referred to in the (
body
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) of the
Amarna letters.
Tubu is the probable biblical town of
Tob
Tob was the name of a place in Transjordan, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
Hebrew Bible
Jephthah flees from his brothers to the "land of Tob".
In Tob, Jephtha gatheres some men until his brothers want him back to fight against the Ammonites (). ...
. In the entire group of El Amarna letters, EA 205 is the only usage of the name Tubu, and only the "Man" (or Mayor/prince) is referenced.
The
scribe
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who wrote EA 205, visited and /or wrote from 6 towns, 5 south of or neighboring,
Damascus
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. Three were named, as only from the "Man" of the town. Three were designated by the "Leader" of the town, and one of the 6 towns, was not mentioned by name. These Amarna letters are all written from the time centering about 1350
BCE and written in
Akkadian cuneiform
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on clay tablets.
See also
*
Umm el-Marra
Umm el-Marra, (), east of modern Aleppo in the Jabbul Plain of northern Syria, was one of the ancient Near East's oldest cities, located on a crossroads of two trade routes northwest of Ebla, in a landscape that was much more fertile than it is t ...
Sources
* Index, Introduction, Maps, etc. in ...''The Amarna Letters,'' Ed. and translated by
William Moran, French, and English, c. 1987, 1992.
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