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Transjordan (region)

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the second century A.D. but did not record places by Roman provinces—described them as being in (the local geographical unit of) Coele Syria (5.14.18). Furthermore, Philadelphia continued to describe itself on its coins and in inscriptions of the second and third centuries A.D. as being a city of Coele Syria; see above, Philadelphia, n. 9. As for the boundaries of the new province, the northern frontier extended to a little beyond the north of Bostra and east; the western border ran somewhat east of the Jordan River valley and the Dead Sea but west of the city of Madaba (see M. Sartre,
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in Late Bronze Age texts as the centre of a region called Aba/Apa/Apina/Upi/Upu . From Tuthmosis' conquest onwards, for the remainder of the Late Bronze Age, this region remained under Egyptian sovereignty, though for a short time after the battle of Qadesh, fought in 1274 by the pharaoh Ramesses 11 against the Hittite king Muwatalli II, it came under Hittite control. After the Hittite withdrawal, Damascus and its surrounding region marked part of Egypt's northern frontier with the Hittites.
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however, does not recognize Idumaea, merging it in Iudaea, and definitely distinguishes Peraea from Judaea. Had Ptolemy derived his divisions from an official source, he would probably have followed this scheme, and in particular would have used the official term Peraea instead of the periphrasis 'across the Jordan'.
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Damascus' history extends well back before the Aramaean occupation. It is first attested as one of the cities and kingdoms which fought against and were defeated by the pharaoh Tuthmosis III at the battle of Megiddo during Tuthmosis' first Asiatic campaign in 1479 (ANET 234-8). Henceforth, it appears
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Ptolemy's divisions of Palestine (v. xv) appear to follow popular lines. They are Galilee, Samaria, Judaea (with a subdivision 'across the Jordan'), and Idumaea. These divisions were also for the most part, as Josephus' survey of Palestine (Bell., III. iii. 1-5, §§ 35-57) shows, official. Josephus,
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There are various traditions behind the Books of Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and 1 Chronicles' assignment of tribal territories and towns to Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. Some of these traditions provide only an idealized picture of Israelite possessions east of the Jordan;
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The problem of indicating precise ancient boundaries in Transjordan is difficult and complex and varies according to the time period under discussion. After the creation of the Roman province of Arabia in 106 A.D. Gerasa and Philadelphia were included in it. Nonetheless, Ptolemy—who was writing in
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by the Jordan River. This causes the "whole congregation of the Israelites" to prepare for war. They first sent a delegation to the Transjordanians, accusing them of making God angry and suggesting their land may be unclean. In response to this, the Transjordanians said that the altar is not for
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provided a great compendium of knowledge in terms of the placements of cities and lands in the ancient world, information that would form the basis of medieval cartography, resulting in a standard Ptolemaic map of Asia, including Palestine. The information about Judaea appears in Book 5, where
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Miscellanea Curiosa: Containing a Collection of Some of the Principal Phænomena in Nature, Accounted for by the Greatest Philosophers of this Age: Being the Most Valuable Discourses, Read and Delivered to the Royal Society, for the Advancement of Physical and Mathematical Knowledge. As Also a
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offerings, but is only a "witness". The western tribes were satisfied and return home. Assis argues that the unusual dimensions of the altar suggest that it "was not meant for sacrificial use", but was, in fact, "meant to attract the attention of the other tribes" and provoke a reaction.
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emerged as the dominant tribe amongst the Ahlamu; with the destruction of the Hittites and the decline of Assyria in the late 11th century BCE, they gained control over much of Syria and Transjordan. The regions they inhabited became known as
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was a trade route of vital importance to the ancient Near East. It began in Egypt and stretched across the Sinai Peninsula to Aqaba. From there it turned northward across Transjordan, leading to Damascus and the Euphrates River. During the
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comprised a network of major ancient land and sea trading routes linking the Mediterranean world with Eastern and Southern sources of incense, spices and other luxury goods, stretching from Mediterranean ports across the
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or simply Arabia, was a frontier province of the Roman Empire beginning in the 2nd century. It consisted of the former Nabataean kingdom in the southern Levant, Sinai Peninsula, and northwestern Arabian peninsula.
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Collection of Curious Travels, Voyages, Antiquities, and Natural Histories of Countries; Presented to the Same Society. To which is Added, A Discourse of the Influence of the Sun and Moon on Human Bodies, &c
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are mentioned as well as the main cities. In the region east of the Jordan, there are sites that are not all easy to determine: Cosmas, Libias, Callirhoe, Gazorus, Epicaeros (Ptolemy, Geogr. 5: 15: 6).
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Decapolis was so called from its ten Cities enumerated by Pliny (lib. 5. 18.) And with them he reckons up among others, the Tetrarchy of Abila in the same Decapolis : Which demonstrates the
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was the source of this dispute. He claimed that since David was descended from someone who was not allowed to marry into the community, his male ancestors were no longer part of the tribe of
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There is some ambiguity about the status of the Transjordan in the mind of the biblical writers. Horst Seebass argues that in Numbers "one finds awareness of Transjordan as being holy to
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were Semitic-speaking cattle nomads in the Levant from the late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age. In a 15th-century BCE list of enemies inscribed on column bases at the temple of
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and Moabites as the "children of Lot". Throughout the Bible, the Ammonites and Israelites are portrayed as mutual antagonists. During the
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describes the Peraea by a periphrasis as the eastern side of Jordan which may imply that the name was no longer in vogue. (Image of
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The Septuagint Version of the Old Testament, with an English translation; and with various readings and critical notes. Gr. & Eng
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others are no more than vague generalizations. Num 21.21–35, for example, says only that the land the people occupied extended from
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affirms Moses' decision and urges the men of the two-and-a-half tribes to help in the conquest, which they are willing to do. In
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This article is about the geographic region. For the British protectorate under Hashemite rule in the 20th century, see
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MacDonald, Burton (2000). "Settlement of the Israelite Tribes East of the Jordan". In Matthews, Victor (ed.).
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to ask if they could settle in the Transjordan. Moses is dubious, but the two tribes promise to join in the
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Lori Rowlett argues that in the Book of Joshua, the Transjordanian tribes function as the inverse of the
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is traditionally identified as an area covering Sinai and Canaan south of Lebanon, with the regions of
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Unlike the other tribal allotments in Joshua, the Transjordanian territory was not divided by lot.
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East of the Jordan: A Record of Travel and Observation in the Countries of Moab, Gilead and Bashan
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Assignment of Transjordan to the tribes; Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, per the
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Hodgson, James; Derham, William; Mead, Richard; M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier) (1727).
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and Lot's younger and elder daughters, respectively, in the aftermath of the destruction of
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wrote the Book of Ruth in order to remind the people of the original law that women from
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The Political Situation in Egypt During the Second Intermediate Period, C. 1800-1550 B.C.
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because many marriages with Ammonite (and Moabite) wives had taken place in the days of
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and his heirs until 106 CE, when Bosra was incorporated into the new Roman province of
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Per the settlement of the Israelite tribes east of the Jordan, Burton MacDonald notes;
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suggests that this is because Manasseh settled in the land that previously belonged to
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to the north. As such, parts of Canaan and southwestern Syria became tributary to the
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of Syria disappeared after being displaced or absorbed by a new wave of semi-nomadic
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Elie Assis, "For it shall be a witness between us: a literary reading of Josh 22,"
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Roma), under which name it served as a military and trade road along the fortified
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N. Orpett (2012). "The Archaeology of Land Law: Excavating Law in the West Bank".
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The Promise of the Land: The Inheritance of the Land of Canaan by the Israelites
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argues that in the Book of Joshua, the Jordan is portrayed as "a barrier to the
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and Ammon were allowed to convert and marry into the Jewish people immediately.
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Lori Rowlett, "Inclusion, Exclusion and Marginality in the Book of Joshua,"
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The Sense of Biblical Narrative II: Structural Analyses in the Hebrew Bible
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The historical Semitic region, defined by the pre-Islamic distribution of
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The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa
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was a prominent central community for the surrounding region during the
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The World of The Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History
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flourished between roughly the 7th century BCE to the 2nd century CE.
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usage. Whereas the term "East" as in "towards the sunrise" is used in
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and means "across" or beyond, and so "Transjordan" refers to the land
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Horst Seebass, "Holy Land in the Old Testament: Numbers and Joshua,"
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New Kingdom at its maximum territorial extent in the 15th century BCE
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to be the same Place. And tho'it cannot be denied, but that some of
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as having borne a child. She was the mother of Solomon's successor,
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EAST OF THE JORDAN: Territories and Sites of the Hebrew Scriptures
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The identity of those particular tribes had been lost during the
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and beyond. The incense land trade from South Arabia to the
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suggests that it is assigned by Moses rather than by God.
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The Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces, 2nd Edition
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Part of the Southern Levant east of the Jordan River
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Bagster & Sons. 1870. p. 281. 1777: 907:is named from its ten cities enumerated by 436:. When Canaanite confederacies centered on 83:against Ottoman rule during the 1910s, the 2858:The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea 2250:International Journal of Legal Information 1814:Late Chalcolithic 4-5 / Early Jezirah 1-3 1770: 1756: 2794:A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography 2458: 2446:Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament 2247: 949:period and was also inhabited during the 849:Palestine & Coele-Syria according to 2861:. Oxford University Press. p. 238. 2390: 891: 864: 844: 611: 509: 498: 348: 328: 2708:. Here it is to be observed, that what 2318: 3005: 2854: 2376:Museum Tusculanum Press. p. 131. 969:, for the purpose of settling retired 451: 2927:Cohen, Getzel M. (3 September 2006). 2926: 2893: 2790: 2569:(JPS Torah Commentary; Philadelphia: 2470:American Schools of Oriental Research 2396: 2170: 2149: 2139: 2057: 2028: 1960: 1936: 1751: 1045:of Judaea was a client state of the 156:בעבר הַיַּרְדֵּן מִזְרָח הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ‎ 2855:Taylor, Joan E. (30 January 2015). 818: 648:there, and because land taken in a 325:History of ancient Israel and Judah 266: 235: 226:'beyond the Jordan' in the 155: 49: 13: 2551:Das Land Israel in biblischer Zeit 632:is portrayed as "a barrier to the 468:peoples known collectively as the 314: 60:, mostly contained in present-day 14: 3044: 2996: 1020:Neolithic Agricultural Revolution 1010:made it a fertile region for the 546:is not mentioned until verse 33. 230:. However, some authors give the 2958:61 236-42; and especially id.. 2894:Jones, A. H. M. (30 June 2004). 2537:(Downers Grove: IVP, 2005), 970. 2290:. Trowitzsch. 1892. p. 155. 1739: 1730: 1711: 1702: 1686: 1677: 1668: 1659: 1643: 1634: 1625: 1607: 1598: 1589: 1567: 1558:Transjordan Kingdoms during the 1551: 1542: 1526: 1517: 1508: 1488: 1479: 1470: 1454: 1445: 1436: 1420: 1411: 1399: 1344: 1325: 1305: 1289: 1280: 1271: 1243: 1231: 1219: 1210: 1201: 1189: 1162:through Northeastern Africa and 489:The Transjordanian Hebrew tribes 167:bʿēḇer hayyardēn mizrāḥ haššemeš 3033:Geography of Palestine (region) 2974:Dana Al Emam (15 August 2015). 2967: 2920: 2887: 2848: 2835: 2784: 2668: 2635: 2618: 2591: 2576: 2556: 2540: 2524: 2509: 2397:Bryce, Trevor (15 March 2012). 1406:Levantine trade routes 1300 BCE 1090: 780:to be mentioned by name in the 725:. The Bible refers to both the 558:, while Reuben and Gad settled 412:The Egyptian geographical term 2452: 2437: 2421: 2363: 2325:. C. Scribner's sons. p.  2312: 2294: 2276: 2241: 1072:Crusader period: Oultrejordain 444:came under the control of the 288:'East of the Jordan'. 1: 2472:. p. 149. Archived from 2235: 1339:is the part west of the river 1314:British Mandate for Palestine 3018:Geography of the Middle East 1536:Transjordan Kingdoms 830 BCE 697:Other Transjordanian nations 197: 7: 2628:caused by the conquests of 2403:. OUP Oxford. p. 175. 2193:The East Bank of the Jordan 2185: 1126:period the road was called 277: 246: 166: 87:was established in 1921 by 10: 3049: 1049:from 37 BCE, and included 1006:plateau. The soil of this 911:(23–79). What Pliny calls 859:Palestine Exploration Fund 822: 741:, the Ammonites work with 492: 333:Egyptian provinces of the 318: 302:History of the Middle East 295: 291: 186: 25: 21:East Bank (disambiguation) 18: 2262:10.1017/S0731126500011410 2167: 2146: 2134: 2131: 2124: 2121: 2103: 2093: 2076: 2069: 2067: 2033: 2021: 2012: 2003: 1998: 1970: 1953: 1924: 1909: 1904: 1883: 1878: 1866: 1856: 1844: 1834: 1816: 1813: 1803: 1798: 1793: 1786: 1078:Lordship of Oultrejordain 607: 397:. 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