Shechem, occupied from about 2000, is traditionally…
2061 BCE to 1918 BCE
Shechem, occupied from about 2000, is traditionally associated with the site of Tell Balatah in Balata al-Balad in the West Bank, though it may have been located on nearby Mount Gerizim).
The Eblaite Tablets mention Shechem as a city of which Rasap (Resheph) is the patron deity.
A god of plague and war, Resheph is associated with lightning, and hence interpreted as a weather deity.
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