Barbara McKean Parmenter has noted that the Arabs of Palestine have been credited with the preservation of the original Semitic place names of many sites mentioned in the Bible, as was documented by the American geographer Edward Robinson in the 19th century.
Barbara McKean Parmenter a notat că arabii din Palestina au meritul de a fi păstrat denumirile semitice originale ale multor situri menționate în Biblie, după cum a demonstrat cu documente geograful american Edward Robinson, în secolul al XIX-lea.