Editing Isdud (section)

==Names==
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The name "Isdud" is a variant on the name of [[Ashdod (ancient city)|ancient Ashdod]], which is first attested in the form of 11th century BCE Egyptian lists, where is it transcribed as "ísdd", which scholars have determined is derived from the [[Late Bronze Age]] Canaanite "'aṯdādu".<ref name=Cross64>{{cite journal |last1=Cross Jr. |first1=F. M. |last2=Freedman |first2=D. N. |date=1964 |title=The Name of Ashdod |journal=Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research |volume=175 |issue=1 |pages=48–50 |doi=10.2307/1355824 |jstor=1355824 |s2cid=163848559 |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/1355824?journalCode=basor|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

In the Islamic period, the geographer [[Ibn Khordadbeh]] referred to the city as "Azdud", echoing the pre-Hellenistic name.<ref name=Khalidi/> By the 16th century, it had lost its initial vowel to become just "Sdud",<ref name=Petersen/> before regaining it by the 19th century as "Esdud,"<ref name=Robinson/> and then  "Isdud."<ref name=Barron/>