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Bozrah means sheepfold or enclosure in Hebrew [3] and was a pastoral city [4] in Edom southeast of the Dead Sea.According to the biblical narrative, it was the home city of one of Edom's kings, Jobab son of Zerah (Genesis 36:32–33) and the homeland of Jacob's twin brother, Esau.
The ancient capital of Edom was Bozrah, now Busaira, Jordan. [37] According to the Book of Genesis , Esau's descendants settled in the land after they had displaced the Horites . [ 38 ] It was also called the land of Seir; Mount Seir appears to have been strongly identified with them and may have been a cultic site.
Bethel (Hebrew: בֵית אֵל bet el, "House of God") was a border town between Benjamin and Ephraim.. Bethel, Alaska. Bethel Census Area, Alaska; Bethel, Arkansas (disambiguation)
Chalcolithic Temple of Ein Gedi: El Khiam [66] Type-site of the Khiamian culture Emmaus Nicopolis: Emmaus [67] Tel Erani: Tell esh-Sheikh Ahmed el-ʿAreini [68] Et-Tell: Ai [69] Ekron: Tel Miqne, Khirbet el-Muqanna, Accaron [70] Ekron Royal Dedicatory Inscription: Eleutheropolis: Eshtemoa synagogue [71] Tell el-Far'ah (North) Tirzah
The Creation of History in Ancient Israel (Routledge, 1995) Cook, Stephen L., The social roots of biblical Yahwism (Society of Biblical Literature, 2004) Day, John (ed.), In search of pre-exilic Israel: proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar (T&T Clark International, 2004) Frevel, Christian, History of Ancient Israel (SBL Press, 2023)
Tel Motza or Tel Moẓa [1] is an archaeological site in Motza, on the outskirts of Jerusalem.It includes the remains of a large Neolithic settlement dated to around 8600–8200 BCE, and Iron Age Israelite settlement dating to around 1000 to 500 BCE and identified with the biblical Mozah mentioned in the Book of Joshua.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider splitting content into sub-articles, condensing it, or adding subheadings. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page. (February 2025) Visual History of Israel by Arthur Szyk, 1948 Part of a series on the History of ...
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.