the phoenicians of the city-state of tyre (who colonized north africa and created carthage) worshiped ninurta/hercules as their supreme god and called him melqart (mlk-qrt, meaning "king of the city", mlk is the root word of moloch). both herodotus and lucian claimed to visit the temple of melqart in phoenicia and both concluded that there were two different deities called heracles - one the olympian and the other "tyrian heracles" (melqart/ninurta). yahweh's temple was explicitly modeled after melqart's temple with his two pillars at the entrance (hercules pillars that separate the mediterranean sea from the atlantic ocean). also, the foundation myth of tyre includes that melqart carried not two pillars, but two tablets of the law around a burning bush that wasn't consumed with a serpent around its base like moses on mount sinai. clear biblical parallels. many many other connections. this is true, because people from tyre built solomon's temple. even the king of tyre, hiram is referred to as a "brother" (achi) by david, and josephus stated that he was of the tribe of naphtali.     ...as_proceedings_actes_i_madrid_20 05_pp_829_834 > the first mention of the city of jerusalem is in the egyptian execration texts of the 19th18th centuries b.c.e. the name is spelled w mm and was probably pronounced "rushalimum." in the tell el-amarna letters of the 14th century b.c.e., it is written urusalim, and in assyrian ursalimmu (sennacherib inscription). in the bible it is usually spelled yrushlm and sometimes yrushlym (pronounced "yerushalayim"). the city of salem (gen. 14:18; ps. 76:3) is evidently jerusalem. the greek hierosolyma reflects the "holiness" (hieros, "holy") of the city. it seems that the original name was irusalem, and the meaning of the two words composing it is "to found" ("yarah") and the name of the west semitic sun god shulmanu, also knowns as ninurta
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