Editing Amalek (section)

==Etymology==
Most scholars regard the origin of the term, "Amalek" to be unknown<ref>M. Weippert, Semitische Nomaden des zweiten Jahrtausends. ''Biblica'' vol. 55, 1974, 265-280, 427-433</ref> but in some rabbinical interpretations, it is etymologized as {{transliteration|hbo|am lak}}, 'a people who lick (blood)'.<ref>{{cite book |last=Patterson |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lMLmK-fmf8kC&pg=PA43 |title=A Genealogy of Evil: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad |date=2011 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781139492430 |pages=43, 244}}</ref>

[[Richard C. Steiner]] has suggested that the name is derived from the [[Egyptian language|Egyptian]] term ''*ꜥꜣm rqj'' "hostile Asiatic", possibly referring to [[Shasu]] tribesmen from around [[Edom]].<ref>{{cite book |title=A Master of Secrets in the Chamber of Darkness: Egyptological Studies in Honor of Robert K. Ritner Presented on the Occasion of His Sixty-Eighth Birthday |last=Steiner |first=Richard C. |publisher=Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures |year=2024 |isbn=978-1-61491-110-4 |pages=382–383 |editor-last=Muhs |editor-first=Brian P. |chapter=Merenptah's Israel, his Shasu militiamen, his copper caravan route, and the watering stations bearing his name at Kadesh-barnea and Me-nephtoah: Part One |editor-last2=Scalf |editor-first2=Foy D. |chapter-url=https://www.academia.edu/123986155}}</ref>