Calamolalus
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CALAMOLALUS (PERSON) [Gk Kalamōlalos (Καλαμωλαλος)]. The name of the ancestor of a family which returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel; included in the RSV as a marginal reading for “of the other Elam” (kalamō allou; 1 Esdr 5:22). The identification of Calamolalus is further complicated by the variant Gk text (B) kalamōkalos, and is commonly considered a textual corruption. Myers (1 and 2 Esdras AB, 65), with the RSV, renders it as “the other Elam” and considers it parallel to Ezra 2:31 and Neh 7:34. However, Turner (IDB 1: 482) describes it as a corrupt combination of “Lod and Hadid” (Ezra 2:33=Neh 7:37).
Michael David McGehee
Freedman, D. N. (1996, c1992). The Anchor Bible Dictionary (1:808). New York: Doubleday.
