Talk:Kadesh (Syria)

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Two Kadesh articles

There was already another Kadesh article at Kadesh (South of Israel), so why is that information also in this article? Yuber^(talk) 00:52, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Also, just to be certain, is the villiage of Kedesh any relation to either of these cities?

There is a Kadesh in the mountains north of Israel and Kadesh Barnea south of Israel, two different but related borders, North and South. When Kedesh and Kadesh and Qedesh are all cognates, Ka= high, in both Akkadian and Egyptian, desh = waters. The high places are sometimes called Migdol, sometimes called bamath. It just depends on who is talking when. The village of Kadesh may be a modern site near what was once a "city". The size of bronze age cities wouldn't be much more than a modern village. Jehrico was at one point the size of an extended family, jerusalem was once a fortified well.Rktect 02:04, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kadesh in the Mountains

In Egypts 18th Dynasty Kadesh in the mountains was the southern border of The Nahrin or Mitanni and the northern border of Egypt and Egypts northernmost province, Canaan. By the 19th Dynasty the Mittani were expanding southward opposed by Egypt and their Amurru vassals to the west.[the Battle of Kadesh] Pritchards book on the ANE is good on this, The Cambridge Atlas of Mesopotamia by Michael Roaf (CAM) and the Atlas of Egypt edited by Baines and Malik are good also especially as regards the tie in to the Amarna letters and the Conguest both citing cities like Hamath, Yenoam and Beth Shean as in their path.Rktect 02:32, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]