Is Jerusalem in The Torah?

I've dedicated some of this blog to dealing with the doctrines of Torah Only teachers (and people who don't like to be called that but are functionally the same).  One issue that comes with that is rejecting Jerusalem, which by that exact name is missing from the Five Books of Moses.

Masoretic and Septuagint versions of the Torah refer to the place that will become the permanent resting place of the Mishkan as a location YHWH hasn't chosen yet in Deuteronomy 12.  The Samaritan Pentateuch makes this a place already chosen and makes many other changes designed to say the Tabernacle should be on Mount Gerizim, but I've already spoken on why I reject those changes.

Indeed I shall admit that if I used The Torah alone to decide where to place The Tabernacle my first pick would be Bethel based on Genesis 28 and 35.  A second pick might be Shiloh based on what's said in Genesis 49, but as a location Shiloh isn't mentioned by that name in the Torah either.

The fact that I've argued against the Salem of Melchizdek being Jerusalem in favor of it being the same Shalem from Genesis 33 and 34 which is near Shechem, possibly the same place later known as Shiloh, makes it easy to seem like Jerusalem isn't in The Torah at all.  I do believe Moriah of Genesis 22 is East of Jerusalem where I believe Jesus was Crucified, but that's hard to prove definitively.

Deuteronomy 33:12 is saying the Beloved of YHWH will be in the land of Benjamin, earlier Chapter 12 talked about it being a Tribe chosen to house his Dwelling place.

The tribal allotments are strictly speaking primarily laid out in Joshua not yet in The Torah, but plenty in the Torah implies the basics of Joshua's allotment is correct.  For one thing Caleb is promised Hebron.  The Transjordan Tribes also explicitly take the Transjordan in The Torah.  Genesis 49:22 is possibly alluding to Jacob's Well thus giving Joseph Shechem.  Nephtali's association with a Sea possibly anticipates him getting the Sea of Galilee.  Zebulun and Issachar are also possibly associated with coast-lands in Genesis 49 and Deuteronomy 33.

Benjamin meanwhile is the only son of Jacob born in The Land, so it's fitting that the site of his birth where Rachel died and was buried in Genesis 35:19 and 48:7 was on the way to Bethlehem Ephratah, not in that city as people often assume.  Rachel's real Tomb was at Ramah a little north east of modern Jerusalem.

I've discovered that some people think the Migdol Edar (Tower of the Flock) of Genesis 35:21 is a location in or near Jerusalem rather then Bethlehem as it is popularly identified, this is based on it being the stronghold of Zion in Micah 4:8, but that same verse is part of my argument that Zion is Bethlehem not Jerusalem.

Bethel was right on the border of Ephraim and Benjamin so it could fit.  But the point is there are hints of the general area of Jerusalem being important in The Torah.  And then there is the even more speculative idea I recently proposed about Genesis 10 and 11.

I'm more fascinated by the Decline in the importance of Hebron (aka Mamre and Arbah).  In Genesis that is where the Patriarchs ultimately spend most of their time, including where all three of them and three of their wives were buried.  And then later a big deal is made out of Caleb being promised Hebron which was also where the Anakim ruled which the Book of Joshua further deals with.  It is was later David's Capital for the first 7 and a half years of his reign, when he had only Judah.  But in The New Testament it doesn't seem to be mentioned even once.