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Dar'ella and Tar'ella
User:Doug Weller, shalom. This is for your information. Yesterday, I visited the Hebrew University National Library in Jerusalem and checked out The Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 2, edited by David Noel Freedman in 1992. As it turns out, in the entry for Deir Alla it mentions both spellings - Dar'ala and Tar'ala. Citing from that dictionary, it reads as follows:
 * ARCHAEOLOGY
 * A. Identification
 * Tell Deir ʿAlla is often connected with the biblical Succoth mentioned in Gen 33:17 and Judg 8:4–16. In the 19th century, Merrill discovered the name Deir ʿAlla which was used locally to indicate a stretch of land through which the river Zerqa flows from the foot of the mountains in the E to where it flows into the Jordan River. The mountains recede a little here to the E, and form a valley. Merrill associated this name with Darʿala or Tarʿala mentioned in the Talmud, Šebiʿit 9, 2 Gemara, which had replaced the name Succoth. Succoth means "booth," tar'ala means "reeling," and Deir ʿAlla means "high monastery." Thus Deir ʿAlla could be a corruption of Tarʿala, and if so this would mean that the name had been known locally since early Islamic times, whereas the Succoth-Tarʿala tradition must have gone back to at least the early centuries of the Iron Age., etc, retc." [END QUOTE].

Of course, I should always check the sources before being rash to correct them (at what appears to be an error), even though, in this case, I happened to be right. May we all adopt an approach of encouraging each other in our busy task of editing, even when we occasionally stumble or fall. Be well.Davidbena (talk) 04:34, 5 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for this. Doug Weller  talk 19:56, 7 November 2018 (UTC)