Ananiah
Ananiah, in the Bible, is a town in the tribe of Benjamin between Nob and Hazor [1] (Nehemiah 11:32). It is one of the localities inhabited by the tribe of Benjamin after the return from the Babylonian Exile.[2] Ananiah, whose name means "protected by God," was identified by the 19th century French traveler V. Guérin, author of Description de La Jude'e, with the present-day Beit Hanina, located 3 miles north of Jerusalem.[3] Edward Robinson concurred, but W.F. Albright maintained that Ananiah is the village of al-Eizariya east of Jerusalem.[4][5] Some modern scholars also identify Ananiah with al-Eizariya.[6][7]
References
- ↑ Hazor is suepected by some archaeologists to be identical with modern Khirbet Hazur.
- ↑ Nehemiah 11:32
- ↑ Guérin, 1868, p. 394
- ↑ About Beit Hanina Archived February 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. Official Website Beit Hanina Community Center; Mohamed Shaker Sifadden
- ↑ W. F. Albright (1922–1923). "Excavations and Results at Tell El-Fûl (Gibeah of Saul) by the Director of the School in Jerusalem". American Schools of Oriental Research, Annual. 4. pp. 158–160.
- ↑ G. Barkay, A. Fantalkin and O. Tal (2002). "A Late Iron Age Fortress North of Jerusalem". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 328: 49–71. doi:10.2307/1357779.
- ↑ Boaz Zissu (2012). "Excavations near Nahmanides Cave in Jerusalem and the Question of the Identification of Biblical Nob". Israel Exploration Journal. 62 (1): 54–70.
Bibliography
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). "article name needed". Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.