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Khirbet Jurish. Khirbet Jurish is the most recent contender for the 1st-century town of Gerasa mentioned by Josephus. Archaeologists Boaz Zissu and Ze'ev Safrai who have studied the various options have both concluded that the site is to be identified with Khirbet Jurish which once stood along the ancient Roman road from Jerusalem to Beit Gubrin, and which is now protected by the Israel Nature ...
Abimelech, King of Gerar, returns Sarah to Abraham; painting by Elias van Nijmegen (1667-1755), Museum Rotterdam. Gerar (Hebrew: גְּרָר Gərār, "lodging-place") was a Philistine town and district in what is today south central Israel, mentioned in the Book of Genesis and in the Second Book of Chronicles of the Hebrew Bible.
With the establishment of Israel, in parts of Palestine, many place names have since been Hebraized or are referred to by their revived Biblical names. [6] In some cases, even sites with only Arabic names and no pre-existing ancient Hebrew names or associations have been given new Hebrew names. [8]
The displacement of the Palestinian people on that date is still marked every year on “Nakba Day”, named for an Arabic word for “catastrophe” and on which Palestinians give speeches, hold ...
The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Peteet, Julie (2005). "Words as Interventions: Naming in the Palestine: Israel Conflict". Third World Quarterly. 26 (1 ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Arab–Israeli conflict The main parties in the Arab–Israeli conflict Israel Palestinian territories Egypt Jordan Lebanon Syria Iraq Date Late 19th / early 20th century – present Main phase: c. 15 May 1948 – ongoing (76 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 1 day) Location Middle East Status Ongoing ...
Arab/Palestinian citizens of Israel may refer to themselves by a wide range of terms. Each of these names, while referring to the same group of people, connotes a different balance in what is often a multilayered identity assigning varying levels of priority or emphasis to the various dimensions which may be historic-geographic ("Palestine (region)"), "national" or ethnoreligious (Palestinian ...
Many Western words entered Arabic through Ottoman Turkish as Turkish was the main language for transmitting Western ideas into the Arab world. There are about 3,000 Turkish borrowings in Syrian Arabic, mostly in administration and government, army and war, crafts and tools, house and household, dress, and food and dishes.