Who Were the Ammonites, Moabites and Edomites in the Bible?
2024年6月20日 · The capital of the Iron Age kingdom of Ammon was Rabbah, which is located at modern-day Amman, Jordan. Burnett describes the boundaries of Ammon: “The Ammonite heartland comprised the north-central Transjordanian Plateau encircled by the upper Jabbok … within a 12.5-mile radius of its capital at the headwaters of the Jabbok.”
ammon Archives - Biblical Archaeology Society
A ceramic bowl with an inscription that may allude to a Biblical figure was recently uncovered among thousands of First Temple period pottery sherds, clay lamps and figurines near Jerusalem’s Gihon Spring. The partially-preserved ancient Hebrew inscription roughly transliterates into English characters as “ryhu bn bnh.”.
Power Set in Stone - Biblical Archaeology Society
2024年1月17日 · In the Winter 2023 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, archaeologist Katharina Schmidt provides a fascinating introduction to these statues in her article “ Hard Power: The Stone Statues of Ammon.”. For a kingdom that was relatively small geographically, the Ammonites’ production of about 40 pieces of statuary in Rabbath-Ammon is ...
Biblical-era animosities between Israel and Ammon that often brought the two king-doms into armed conflict. Rounding out this survey is a sidebar by Harrison on the his-tory of excavations at Rabbath Ammon and another by epigrapher (a specialist in writing) P. Kyle McCarter that describes the numerous examples of Ammonite inscrip-
Rabbath-Ammon Archives - Biblical Archaeology Society
2024年1月17日 · Rabbath-Ammon. Rabbath-Ammon Latest. Jan 17 Blog. Power Set in Stone . By: BAS Staff The kingdom of the ...
Exploring Jordan: The Other Biblical Land
This vicarious journey brings to vibrant life the Biblical world in the “other” Holy Land and acquaints us with Jordan’s magnificent sites and legendary stories. Chapter 1. Where John Baptized. Longtime archaeology journalist Rami Khouri takes us to a site on the east bank of the Jordan River and about 7 miles north of the Dead Sea that ...
BAF Lecture: Ammonites v. Israelites - Biblical Archaeology Society
2014年11月26日 · On Wednesday, December 17, 2014, the Biblical Archaeology Forum (BAF) will host the lecture “Ammonites v Israelites: Battle of Jephthah (Judges 11)” by Dr. Elizabeth Bloch-Smith of the Jewish Theological Seminary. The Biblical account of the Ammonites’ war with Israel invokes as the casus belli earlier entanglements with the Moabites and ...
Jews and Arabs Descended from Canaanites
2023年11月25日 · The study in Cell not only establishes that the ancient Israelites were descended from the Canaanites, but also establishes that the Canaanite people across the separate city-states of the southern Levant, and over a period of 1,500 years, were a genetically cohesive people. This post originally appeared in Bible History Daily in June, 2020.
Biblical and Historical Jordan: Sites to See
2011年7月23日 · Despite the name change, the city’s inhabitants remained largely Semitic and probably were never extensively Hellenized. When Arab Muslims conquered the region of present-day Jordan in 634, they called the city by the name local peoples used: Amman, the modern Arabic version of ancient Ammon. Thus the city became officially Semitic again ...
Katharina Schmidt - Biblical Archaeology Society
Presenter at. Spring Bible & Archaeology Fest 2023 The Archaeology of the Amman Citadel in the Iron Age. The Iron Age kingdom of Ammon was situated between the regional powers Israel, Judah, and Damascus but was also on the fringes of the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empires, the first empires of ancient Near Eastern history.