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Salman (myth)

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Religions of the ancient Near East
Pre-Islamic Arabian deities
Arabian deities of other Semitic origins

A god worshiped in pre-Islamic South Arabia. Salman may have been the same as a West Semitic god called Shalman/Shalaman, which some scholars believe survives as a theophoric element in the names Solomon and Shalmaneser. The deity is also attested in texts from Ugarit, Palmyra, Hatra, and North and South Arabia.[1]

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  1. ^ Dictionary of deities and demons in the Bible DDD. Toorn, K. van der., Becking, Bob., Horst, Pieter Willem van der. (2nd extensively revised ed.). Leiden: Brill. 1999. ISBN 0802824919. OCLC 39765350.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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