Gibeon
Gibeon ( Hebrew גִּבְעוֹן Givʿōn , German 'hill place, place on the hill' ) was the great city of the Gibeonites and is mentioned in the Old Testament , mainly in Jos 9 EU . It is called el-Djib ( Arabic الجيب, DMG al-Ǧīb ). It was a center of viticulture until late antiquity.
The place is mentioned on a relief by Pharaoh Shoshenk (945–924 BC) in Karnak .
topography
Gibeon was in the land of the Chivwiter ( Jos 9.7 EU ) or Horites ( 1 Mos 36.2–20 EU ) in the north-west of Jerusalem and belonged to the Benjamin area ( Jos 18.25 EU ). It was a large city with able-bodied men ( Jos 10.2 EU ) and belonged to the ancestral land of King Saul .
Gibeon's position is difficult to determine. In general, the place is believed to be in today's village of Ed-Djib (also: El-Djib), about 9 km northwest of Jerusalem .
archeology
Pennsylvania University archaeologist James B. Pritchard excavated the site in 6 campaigns between 1956 and 1962. Finds from the middle and late Bronze Age are known, massive walls from the early Iron Age and a large basin have been exposed. It was equated with the pond of Gibeon ( 2 Sam 2.13 EU ).
literature
- Klaus Koenen: Gibeon. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.
- Gibeon . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 7, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 325.
- Immanuel Benzinger : Gabaon . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VII, 1, Stuttgart 1910, Col. 416 f.
- J. Blenkinsopp: Gibeon and Israel. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1972, p. 3.
- JB Pritchard: Gibeon, where the sun stood still. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1962.
- JB Pritchard: Culture and History. In: JP Hyatt (Ed.): The Bible in Modern Scholarship. Abingdon Press, Nashville 1965, pp. 313-324.
- E. Stern (Ed.): Gibeon. In: The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land. Volume 2. Israel Exploration Society & Carta, Jerusalem 1993, ISBN 0-13-276288-9 , pp. 511-514.
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Coordinates: 31 ° 51 ' N , 35 ° 11' E