Re: 2 Kings 17:6 (was: Proto-Romance)

Quoting John Cowan <cowan@...>:

> Andreas Johansson scripsit:
>
> > > Is this the same place as the |Hhlahh| mentioned in the Hebrew Bible,
> > > > Kings part2 17:6 as a destination for the exilees of the Northern
> > > > Kingdom?
> >
> > I don't know, but could be - 'twas the capital of Assyria from the
> > early 9th C BC to ca 710 BC, and remained a first-rank urban centre
> > till the fall of Assyria.
> >
> > My encyclopaedia says it's called 'Kela' or 'Kelach' in the Bible,
> > but that'd refer to the Swedish translation. Don't have a Bible at
> > hand to check what it says in 2nd Kings 17:6.
>
>
> The Swedish Bible of 1917 says:
>
> 017:006 I Hoseas nionde regerings†r intog konungen i Assyrien Samaria
> 	och f”rde Israel bort till Assyrien och l„t dem bo i Hala och
> 	vid Habor -- en str”m i Gosan -- och i Mediens st„der.
>
> Sorry for the bogus encoding.
>
> So it doesn't look like a match, unless your encyclopaedia is referring
> to a different translation -- and names are usually not changed (Protestant
> vs. Catholic English Bibles being a special case).
It doesn't say which translation it refers to, but my guess would be the 2000
one, which did change the spelling of plenty of more-or-less obscure names
(_Ahab_>Ahav_, for instance), but Hala>Kela(ch) does seem unlikely.

Googling on 'Kelach' gives only hits for citations from Genesis 10:8, where,
fittingly, Nimrod is said to've founded the city. (Googling for 'Kela' is
hopeless due to the verb _att kela_ "to cuddle".)

                                                         Andreas