Mentju-nu-Setjet
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Mentju-nu-Setjet Mnṯjw-nw-Sṯt (Southern) Asian Bedouin |
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Mentiu-nu-Setjet (also Mentiu-nu-Setjet ) referred to in the Egyptian language one of the nine-arch peoples . In the lists of nine-arch peoples from Tanis and Tebtynis , among others , “Mentju-nu- Setjet ” is assigned the synonyms “The land of the Syrians ” and “Syrians” in an additional declaration .
The areas of the Iuntiu , Iabtju ( eastern residents ), Ascheru- Syrians, Setjet ( Asians ), Chaset-charu ( Syrian desert ) and Hau-nebut are listed separately as nine-arch peoples. The "Mentju-nu-Setjet" region referred to the neighboring desert areas of Mentju , which bordered Chaset-charu and northeastern Egypt and lay west of the Setjet areas on the Sinai Peninsula . "Mentiu-nu-Setjet" is probably to be equated with the region of the Old Testament Midian .
The biblical Midianites were a tribe of warlike desert nomads. There they are numbered among the Hebrews along with the Arameans , Edomites , Israelites and Joktanites . Their appearance falls in the pre-state "time of judges", which around 1200-1000 BC. Is set.
The “land of Midian” is located in the Bible only in an approximate direction southeast of Palestine in the mountainous desert. Since the Midianites undertook extensive raids, they probably also ruled areas far from their home region. Their location therefore remains uncertain.
literature
- Jürgen Osing : Hieratic papyri from Tebtunis I, 2 volumes . Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Eastern Studies, Copenhagen 1998, ISBN 8-7728-9280-3 , p. 254.
- Joachim Friedrich Quack : The problem of the Hausnebut . In: Robert Rollinger , Andreas Luther , Josef Wiesehöfer : Separate ways? Communication, space and perceptions in the old world (Historikertag 2004 in Kiel and conference in Innsbruck in 2005 on the topic of “Cultural Encounter Patterns Beyond the Levant”) . Antike, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-9380-3214-6 , pp. 331–362.