Shalem (other)
Shalem may refer to: * Shalim, the Canaanite god of dusk * Salem, a town in the Bible * Avinoam Shalem Avinoam Shalem (born 1959) is the Riggio Professor of the History of the Arts of Islam at Columbia University. He served as director of the American Academy in Rome from 2020 to 2021. Biography Shalem was born in Haifa, Israel in 1959. He receiv ...

Shalim
Shalim (Šalām, Shalem, Salem, and Salim) is a god in Canaanite religion, mentioned in inscriptions found in Ugarit (Ras Shamra) in Syria.Golan, 2003, p. 82. "The name of the Canaanite deity of the setting sun Salim, or Salem, ..The names Sahar and Salim] are rendered in modern scholarly texts as Shakhar and Shalim [...]" William F. Albright identified Shalim as the god of dusk and Shahar as god of the dawn.Albright, 199p. 187 cf. the Akkadian word for sunset, ''šalām šamši''. In the ''Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible'', Shalim is also identified as the deity representing Venus or the "Evening Star" and Shahar the "Morning Star". His name derives from the triconsonantal Semitic root Š-L-M. Ugaritic inscriptions An Ugaritic myth known as ''The Gracious and Most Beautiful Gods'', describes Shalim and his brother Shahar as offspring of El through two women he meets at the seashore. They are both nursed by "The Lady", likely Asherah ( Athirat or Anat), and have ...
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Salem (Bible)
__NOTOC__ Salem ( he, שָׁלֵם, ''Shalem''; grc, Σαλήμ, ''Salḗm'') is an ancient Middle Eastern town mentioned in the Bible. Salem is referenced in the following biblical passages: * "And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God." * "In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion." The name refers to the royal city of Melchizedek and is traditionally identified with Jerusalem. It is also mentioned in Hebrews 7. Possibly a different place is mentioned in Genesis 33:18: "And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city." The town of Salim corresponds to that location. It is also mentioned in the Gospel of John The Gospel of John ( grc, Εὐαγγέλιον κατὰ Ἰωάννην, translit=Euangélion katà Iōánnēn) is the fourth of the four canonical gospels. It contains a highly schem ...
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