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For historical purposes, the Negev can roughly be divided into four subregions: [1] The biblical Negev (yellow), referring to the small, semi-arid northeastern Arad-Beersheba Valley. Only this area is referred to as the "Negev" in the Bible, as according to biblical historiography, the holdings of the Judeans in the Negev were confined to this ...
According to Israeli archaeologists, in the Hebrew Bible, the term Negev only relates to the northern, semiarid part of what we call Negev today; of this, the Arad-Beersheba Valley, which receives enough rain as to allow agriculture and thus sedentary occupation (the "desert fringe"), is accordingly defined as "the eastern (biblical) Negev". [6]
Wadi Gaza (Arabic: وادي غزة, romanized: Wadi Ghazza) and Besor Stream (Hebrew: נחל הבשור, romanized: Nahal HaBesor) are parts of a river system in the Gaza Strip and Negev region of Palestine and Israel. Wadi Gaza is a wadi (river valley) that divides the northern and southern ends of the Gaza Strip, its major tributary is Besor ...
Negev has excavated Nabataean sites in the Negev, at Caesarea Maritima (1961–62), and Susiya (1984–85), which he associated with biblical Carmel. [3]Researching the Nabataean culture was difficult, not least because major sites lay outside his reach due to the Arab–Israeli conflict, such as Petra in Jordan, Hegra (Mada'in Salih) in Saudi Arabia, and Seeia in Syria (Sî' near Kanatha in ...
According to the Hebrew Bible, the Kenites/Qenites (/ ˈ k iː n aɪ t / or / ˈ k ɛ n aɪ t /; Hebrew: קֵינִי , romanized: Qēni) were a tribe in the ancient Levant. [1] [2] They settled in the towns and cities in the northeastern Negev in an area known as the "Negev of the Kenites" near Arad, and played an important role in the ...
The Roman province "Palaestina Salutaris" In accordance with the population distribution, both the Romans [16] [17] and the early Arabs [18] organized the region territorially in such a way that the Negev was not grouped with Palestine, but rather with the rest of the Sinai Peninsula and parts of what is now southwestern Jordan and the northwestern Hejaz.
But in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, most of the Bedouins living in the southern Negev fled the area or were forced out, relocating to Jordan, Syria, the West Bank and Gaza.
Akrabbim or Acrabbim (Hebrew: עקרבים, meaning "scorpions") is probably the general name given to the ridge containing the pass between the south of the Dead Sea and Zin, es-Sufah, by which there is an ascent to the level of the Negev desert. Scorpions are said to abound in this whole district, and hence the name .