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Bozrah means sheepfold or enclosure in Hebrew [3] and was a pastoral city [citation needed] 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.
2010-07-12T19:43:31Z Richardprins 720x859 (63800 Bytes) {{Information |Description={{en|1=Map showing the ancient levant borders and ancient cities such as [[Urmomium]] and [[Jerash]]. The map also shows the region in the 9th century BCE. Notice the coastal land of Philistia, from; Uploaded with derivativeFX
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.
Chalcolithic Temple of Ein Gedi: El Khiam [64] Type-site of the Khiamian culture Emmaus Nicopolis: Emmaus [65] Tel Erani: Tell esh-Sheikh Ahmed el-ĘżAreini [66] Et-Tell: Ai [67] Ekron: Tel Miqne, Khirbet el-Muqanna, Accaron [68] Ekron Royal Dedicatory Inscription: Eleutheropolis: Eshtemoa synagogue [69] Tell el-Far'ah (North) Tirzah
The whole body, however, of the Church at Jerusalem, having been commanded by a divine revelation given to men of approved piety there before the war, removed from the city to a certain town beyond the Jordan called Pella.
Migdol-type temple at Pella, first built in the Middle Bronze Age (1650 BCE) and destroyed in the Iron Age (850 BCE), 2001. The Middle Bronze Age IIA city of ca. 1800 BCE boasted massive mud-brick city walls. [13] Australian archaeologists also discovered Middle and Late Bronze Age temples and palatial residences (ca. 1800-1200 BCE).
At the same time, Israel and the Kingdom of Aram-Damascus competed for control of the Gilead. [11] [12] Around 720 BC Israel and Aram Damascus were conquered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Meanwhile, the kingdoms of Ammon, Edom and Moab benefited from trade between Syria and Arabia. [13] In 701 BC, they submitted to the Assyrians to avoid ...