Now apparently the oldest written evidence for the name Jerusalem comes from Middle Bronze Age Egyptian 3ws3mm = Rusaremem or Ausaaemem, but which looks and sounds very little like Jerusalem. As dynastic Egypt did not have an L,and it is debatable what the S represents, this early dating of the name coincides with the arrival of the Hyksos in the region, which suggests the late MBA Egyptian term is a corruption of an original Hyksos name. As the Hyksos arrived by ship rather than by overland routes to found Askalon on the Mediterranean coast, and as the Hebrew Bible places Philistines in Palestine at the time of Abram/Abraham, and as the Hyksos may have spoken an early form of Greek, so Jerusalem may have originated as an early Greek name.
