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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Lasha
The eastern corner of Canaan in the Table of Nations, with Sidon at the north. Jewish tradition put it at Callirhoe, the hot springs on the east shore of the Dead Sea where Herod the Great is said to have gone in his last illness.
The eastern corner of Canaan in the Table of Nations, with Sidon at the north. Jewish tradition put it at Callirhoe, the hot springs on the east shore of the Dead Sea where Herod the Great is said to have gone in his last illness.
Lasha marks the eastern boundary point of Canaanite territory in the Table of Nations, paired with Sidon in the north and the cities of the plain in the south (Genesis 10:19). Jewish tradition identified it with Callirhoe, a resort on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea famous in the Roman period for its hot mineral springs, which Herod the Great reportedly visited during his final illness. If that identification is correct, the name preserves a memory of the region's thermal springs long before Roman writers described them.
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