Names

Transliterated Name	Language	Name
Jerusalem	English
Yerushaláyim	Modern Hebrew	יְרוּשָׁלַיִם‎
al-Quds	Arabic	القُدس‎
Ûrshalîm-Al Quds	Arabic	أورشليم القدس‎‎
Bayt al-Maqdis	Arabic	‎بيت المقدس‎
Baitul Muqaddas	Arabic	‎بايتول موقادداس
Iliya	Arabic	‎يلييا
Ilya Bayt el-Maqdas	Arabic	‎يليا بايت يلءماقداس
Hierousalḗm	Greek	Ἱερουσαλήμ‎
Hierosóluma	Greek	‎Ἰεροσόλυμα
Aelia Capitolina	Latin	Aelia Capitolina
Ierosolymitana	Latin
Erusałēm	Armenian	‎Երուսաղեմ
Yerushalem	Hebrew Bible
Salem	Hebrew Bible
City of Judah	Divided Monarchy ?
The City	Lachish letters
Jebus	Jebusites
Uruslimmu	Sennacherib inscriptions (7th century BCE)
Urusalim	el-Amarna letters (14th century BCE)
Rushalimum	Egyptian Execration texts (19th-20th centuries BCE)

Introduction

Jerusalem has a long continuous history of habitation with textual sources (i.e. the Hebrew Bible) documenting an occupation by a Canaanite tribe known as the Jebusites at the beginning of the Iron Age (Iron Age I). The city, according to the Hebrew Bible, was wrested from the Jebusites by King David around 1000 BCE and thereafter became the premier city of the Jewish religion and people. Later religions such as Christianity and Islam also made it a focal point. A continuous history of construction and destruction has led to a complex archeological history.