Ezion giver
Ezion-Geber (also Ezjon-Geber , Ezeon-Geber , Gasiongaber , Vulgate : Aisongeber ) is mentioned variously in the Old Testament as a place on the Gulf of Aqaba , not far from Eilat . Ezion-Geber is said to have been one of the first places where the Israelites set up camp after the Exodus . According to the reports in the 1st Book of Kings ( 1 Kings 9.26 ELB ), the place was the starting point of Solomon's trade in the Red Sea. During the royal period, the port city was lost to the Edomites . For the period after about 900 BC The place is no longer mentioned in the sources.
The German researcher Fritz Frank considered Tell el-Kheleifeh to be the biblical Ezion giver. In his excavations from 1938 to 1940, Nelson Glueck joined this thesis. However, re-evaluations of the excavation finds by Gary Pratico led to a dating of the site to the 8th to 6th centuries BC. Thus, an identification of Ezion giver cannot be proven at this point. Wolfgang Zwickel identifies Ezjon-Geber with Ğezīret Firāˁūn .
literature
- Gary D. Pratico: Nelson Glueck's 1938–1940 Excavations at Tell el-Kheleifeh: A Reappraisal. In: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Vol. 259, 1985, ISSN 0003-097X , pp. 1-32. online (without pictures)
- Immanuel Benzinger : Gasion giver . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 1, Stuttgart 1910, Col. 851 f.
- Avraham Negev : Aelana or Aila (Tell el-Khuleifa) Israel . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
Web links
- Johannes Bremer: Ezjon-Geber. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.