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Telassar
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
or City, along with Gozan, Haran, and Reseph, which Rabshakeh mentions as having been conquered by Sennacherib's predecessors (2 Kings 19:12; Isaiah 37:12). This city was inhabited by the Bene 'Eden. The cuneiform inscriptions mention a Bit-Adini, located in the upper Mesopotamian country, which may be identical with the Biblical place. "Telassar" is probably, as Schrader holds, the same name as "Til-Ashshuri" (the hill of Ashur), and may have been given to any place on which a temple was built. One such place is found east of the Tigris, as shown by Schrader; and another, mentioned by Tiglath-pileser III., was probably in Babylonia. Esarhaddon, too, mentions one near the land of the Mitanni. Telassar, then, being a possible general name, is located in at least three sections of the great Mesopotamian valley by as many separate cuneiform documents.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Telassar'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/t/telassar.html. 1901.
