accepted suggestions being that it is derived from a Semitic root rwm, "to be high". A newer suggestion is that it as a broken plural meaning "white antelopes" or "white bulls". The earliest undisputed historical attestation of Arameans as a people appears much later, in the inscriptions of Tiglath-Pileser I (c. 1100 BC).

History

Origins

Although proving the origins of the ancient Arameans has been problematic in the past, scholars have

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