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133: 36: 1004: 836: 267:. Later scholars who propose a late origin for the Biblical texts continued to equate the names but viewed the writers of the Bible as basing the Biblical name on that of the Itureans of later centuries. More recent scholars have dismissed such direct relationships between the Biblical Jetur and the Itureans: The account of the Hagrites places Jetur east of 578:(Ιτουρ-) does not produce a meaningful form and no tradition of pronouncing it as such exists. As a vowel is always preceded by a consonant in Semitic words, the initial consonant would have been one of the four guttural consonants dropped in Greek transliteration (א,ה,ח,ע). This contradicts derivations from either Jetur or 299:
in 1Ch 5:19 (if not an error) would thus be a reinterpretation by the translator of the name of this ancient tribe as referring to a contemporary people. Moreover, in Josephus where both names are mentioned, Jetur (Ιετουρ-) is rendered differently in Greek to Iturea (Ιτουρ-). Similarly in the Vulgate
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the Itureans and other populations against their will is uncertain: Strabo asserts that they simply created a confederation with such tribes based on the common bond of circumcision, which may be more plausible, though their policy appears to have been one of aggressive Judaizing.
228:, they expanded into the northern Golan and Mount Hermon, as part of the settlement shift that occurred as a result of the collapse of the Seleucid empire, though no evidence of Iturean settlement or “phase” of settlement appears in the Galilee, including Upper Galilee. 769:(טור) is used particularly for a line of mountains rather than a boundary of an encampment and the understanding of the name Itureans in Syriac is "mountain dwellers" according with the location of their settlement being the Mount Lebanon region. 426:
although denoting a different region and people centuries before. Whether the names are indeed related hinges on their original meanings. The Gesenius' Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon suggests that Jetur means "enclosure" related to the personal name
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Knauf, Ernst Axel. ‘The Ituraeans: Another Bedouin State’. In Baalbek: Image and Monument 1898–1998. Edited by Hélène Sader, Thomas Scheffler and Angelika Neuwirth. Beiruter Texte und Studien 69. Beirut: Franz Steiner, pp.
1448: 663:(Ιτουρ) in Greek. Regarding this possibility, Lightfoot notes familiarly of the notion of a country crowned with plenty in Talmudic writings. However the name was first an ethnonym before becoming a toponym, and in the 925:
as a predatory people, and were appreciated by them for their great skill in archery. They played a notable role in the defense of Jerusalem. A branch of the Itureans were allegedly conquered by the Hasmonean king
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remains a possibility, however no occurrence of an Aramaic spelling of this nature in the Hebrew Bible is known even for names in the Aramaic and Arabic realms and the expected Hebrew spelling would be
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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary however suggests that Jetur means "order; succession; mountainous". A connection with "mountain" (more precisely "rock fortress") may refer to the Hebrew word
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exists nor is Iturea ever given an initial h in Latin. A further difficulty is that while the roots of these two words are known, the forms which Lightfoot has used are conjectural.
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The Land of Israel As a Political Concept in Hasmonean Literature: Recourse to History in a Second Century B.C. Claims to the Holy Land (Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum)
986: 982: 659:(עטור) meaning "crowning" (or "decoration") Unlike his other proposals, this word is well attested and remains a plausible derivation as it would be transliterated as 1076: 511:(טור) having a basic meaning of row, line or fence (hence "order; succession"), also refers to a mountain range thus also providing a connection with "mountain". 819:'very serviceable to the Jews, for he added a country to them, and obtained a part of the nation of the Itureans for them, and bound to them by the bond of the 287:(Ιτουραιων) in 1Ch 5:19, the rendering of the name is not consistent across the Septuagint with the occurrences in Ge 25:15 and 1Ch 1:31 being transliterated 209:) were a semi-nomadic tribe who became sedentarized in the Hellenistic period. The exact origin of the Itureans is disputed. Most scholars identified them as 410:
whose name may be connected with that of the Zabadaeans, another Nabatean tribe who together with the Itureans had been conquered by the Hasmoneans.
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which are the texts closest in time to the period in which the tetrarchy of Iturea existed that provide a Semitic form of the name, it is called
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in Safaitic inscriptions would have been a different people, possibly only a small family group, while if the Itureans derived their name from
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provided to the initial vowel and are transliterated by "h" in Latin. However no tradition of a rough breathing in the pronunciation of
851: 435:(טירה) denoting an encampment and explicitly used for the Ishmaelite encampments. This would contradict their being a connection with 962: 713:
syllable in earlier Hebrew or Aramaic. As the latter does not produce a meaningful form it suggests that the original syllable is
679:(ע) showing that Jewish tradition, at least as preserved by the writer of the Josippon, did not view the name as being related to 355: 1705: 1671:
Seán Freyne, 'Galilean Studies: Old Issues and New Questions,' in Jürgen Zangenberg, Harold W. Attridge, Dale B. Martin, (eds.)
1433: 1406: 1204: 1100: 866:(xlix. 32) "king of the Itureans." About 23 BC, Iturea with the adjacent provinces fell into the hands of a chief named 1150: 950: 786: 1366: 1339: 1312: 1285: 1258: 1231: 1177: 119: 100: 973:, xii. 23) "king of the Itureans." After the death of Soemus (49) his kingdom was incorporated into the province of 1643: 1194: 72: 1248: 1221: 1720: 1090: 57: 1536:, Cambridge and London, 1658-1674, Chorographical Notes, Chapter 1: Of the places mentioned in Luke 3, Iturea 283:
period with their location only being referred to as Iturea in the Roman period. Although Jetur is translated
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A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Seán Freyne (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism)
636:(ת) is normally transliterated by theta (θ) in Greek, not tau (τ). Additionally, although the consonants 323: 86: 1608:
Shayne J.D. Cohen, 'Was Judaism in Antiquity a Missionary Religion,' in Cohen, ibid. pp.299-308, p.301.
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Shayne J.D.Cohen, 'Respect for Judaism by Gentiles According to Josephus,' in Shayne J.D. Cohen (ed.)
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The Language Environment of First Century Judaea: Jerusalem Studies in the Synoptic Gospels—Volume Two
981:). After this incorporation the Itureans furnished soldiers for the Roman army; and the designations 867: 847: 1017: 937:, among them Eusebius, taking into consideration the above-cited passage of Luke, place Iturea near 1730: 1710: 68: 17: 757:(אטר) meaning "bound" or "shut up" in Hebrew ultimately sharing a common etymology with the word 1725: 1578: 1564:
Dau, Butros. "History of the Maronites: Religious, Cultural, and Political." Lebanon, 1984, p. 51
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Lightfoot also considered derivations from proposed terms whose meanings he gives as "wealth" (
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campaigned against Iturea, and added a great part of it to Judea, annexing the Galilee to the
765:(אטרו) based on one or the other of these roots is attested. In Aramaic however the base word 372:, suggesting that the Itureans were originally Assyrians, also implying a connection with the 1302: 1192: 1167: 383: 1684: 1089:
Meyers, Eric M.; Research, American Schools of Oriental; Press, Oxford University (1997).
597:("ten cities"). However he does not provide a grammatical form that would be vocalized as 498:(צ). If this meaning is correct, then a linguistic connection between the names Jetur and 418:, יטור) and is possibly derived from its original form. If this is the case then Biblical 8: 891: 828: 687: 271:
and describes the end of that tribe which was conquered by the Israelites in the days of
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A further phonetic complication exists in equating the name Iturea with either Jetur or
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and ultimately dismisses this possibility as it involves an unattested sound change of
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Levantine region north of Galilee during the Late Hellenistic and early Roman periods
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WRIGHT, N.L. 2013: "Ituraean coinage in context." Numismatic Chronicle 173: 55-71.
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The Myth of a Gentile Galilee (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series)
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for Iturea) showing that writers of antiquity did not view the names as the same.
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Negev, Avraham. "Personal Names in the Nabatean Realm." Qedem 32 (1991): III-228.
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Les Ituréens et la présence arabe au Liban du IIe siècle a.C. au IVe siècle p.C.
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Said, Salah, "Two New Greek Inscriptions with the name ϒTWR from Umm al-Jimāl,"
1660: 1583: 1013: 583: 486:(יטור) would thus be the result of an Aramaic spelling convention in which the 361: 164: 930:(r. 104 to 103 BC) and, according to Josephus, forcibly converted to Judaism. 455:. Thus if the Itureans derived their name from Jetur, the people known as the 398:(יטור) in Nabatean Aramaic. Before being established as the name of a people ( 1699: 1673:
Religion, Ethnicity, and Identity in Ancient Galilee: A Region in Transition,
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in the Josippon and suggests that the original Semitic form of the name was
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in Safaitic inscriptions is seemingly a cognate of the Biblical name Jetur (
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Rome and the Arabs: A Prolegomenon to the Study of Byzantium and the Arabs
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in the 2nd century BC. Then, from their base around Mount Lebanon and the
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Zuleika Rodgers; Margaret Daly-Denton; Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley (2009).
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Lightfoot considered a possible derivation from the root for "ten" (I.e.
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as in Arabic which like Safaitic preserves the distinction between the
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used the term Itureans to refer to people from the Biblical region of
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The Iturean kingdom appears to have had its centre in the kingdom of
808: 594: 309: 221: 214: 1525:, Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 34 (2004): 313–318 733:(איט׳ור or אט׳ור). The latter would share a common root with Hebrew 35: 1573: 958: 918: 883: 859: 690: 664: 1486:, Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph 56, 1999-2003, p. 161-290. 354:(τ) and the mainstream view is that Jedur is instead the Biblical 966: 942: 369: 276: 264: 260: 172: 1597:
The Significance of Yavneh and Other Essays in Jewish Hellenism,
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The Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology
761:(טירה) used for an encampment. A Nabatean personal name written 582:
and is the basis of several alternative etymologies proposed by
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They first rose to power in the aftermath of the decline of the
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living in the region in his time. (The name "Druze" is however
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vowel in the original Semitic name rather than the consonant
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644:(ח) are dropped in Greek transliteration, they survive as a 1079:, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 5 vols. Bd.2. 1979, p.1492. 882:
i. 20, § 4). Three years later, at the death of Zenodorus,
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noting the descriptions of the landscape. Derivations from
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Jesus, a Jewish Galilean: A New Reading of the Jesus Story
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Map of Roman Palestine in the first century; according to
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Collins, John Joseph; Sterling, Gregory E. (2001-01-01).
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The area and the Itureans are mentioned only once in the
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
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translation of 1Ch 5:19 several commentators including
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the iota is a vowel suggesting that it represents an
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Three short Nabataean inscriptions from Umm al-Jimāl
721:(א) in the original. This accords with the usage of 609:(ט). Decapolis is also a distinct region to Iturea. 570:. An initial iota may also be used for the syllable 236:
Several etymologies have been proposed for the name
1088: 753:(איטור or אטור) is the noun form of the known word 275:, whereas Iturea has been confirmed to be north of 60:. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. 326:attempted to equate the modern Arabic region name 259:equated the Itureans with Jetur one of the former 1463:, 4 volumes, Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1861 1145:(Hardcover ed.). Dumbarton Oaks. p. 5. 1128:(1). Topoi. Orient-Occident. Supplément: 319–340. 1697: 965:, who is called by Dio Cassius (lix. 12) and by 1395:Buth, Randall; Notley, R. Steven (2014-03-06). 1361:(Hardcover ed.). I. B. Tauris. p. 7. 1358:Caesarea Philippi: Banias, The Lost City of Pan 1300: 1226:(Hardcover ed.). J.C.B. Mohr. p. 66. 1165: 749:is known for this root. The former possibility 368:a name for the region of Nineveh, a variant of 300:the two localities have different Latin names ( 1334:(Paperback ed.). Continuum. p. 249. 1034:(Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010). 593:, עשר) based on identification of Iturea with 1512:(Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010) 1219: 1115: 957:against the Itureans in Mount Lebanon. In 38 620:, i.e. חתורי) He favored the derivation from 1331:Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land 1138: 921:also described them. They were known to the 705:(ܐܝ). This may arise from either an initial 522:as a personal name is consistently found as 1354: 1246: 1012: 422:would indirectly be the origin of the name 1394: 1199:(Hardcover ed.). Brill. p. 207. 1118:"Arabs in Syria: Demography and Epigraphy" 655:Lightfoot also proposed a derivation from 534:) is consonantal representing the initial 463:there would be no connection with Jetur. 120:Learn how and when to remove this message 834: 295:(Ιεττουρ) respectively. The translation 131: 890:, who in turn bequeathed it to his son 671:(איטוריאוס) in Hebrew rendered with an 494:(ט) rather than its true Hebrew reflex 470:(צור), a root which survives in Arabic 14: 1698: 1421: 1273: 316:not Jetur when describing the wars of 1510:The Ituraeans and the Roman Near East 1328:Avraham Negev; Shimon Gibson (2005). 1032:The Ituraeans and the Roman Near East 815:which recounts that Aristobulus was: 667:the Iturean nation is referred to as 632:are problematic however. The Semitic 542:. Similarly, in the transliterations 279:and the Itureans first appear in the 213:, while some believed that they were 1077:Der Kleine Pauly: Lexicon der Antike 526:(Ιατουρ-) in Greek inscriptions. In 447:(ط) sounds, this root is found with 240:and much uncertainty still remains. 58:adding citations to reliable sources 29: 839:Ruins of an Iturean village in the 697:(ܐܝܛܘܪܝܐ) rendered with an initial 187:across the plain of Marsyas to the 24: 1675:Mohr Siebeck, 2007 pp.13-32, p.25. 1250:Flavius Josephus: Life of Josephus 989:are met with in the inscriptions ( 949:1881, pp. 537–542), in which 854:(Mennæus), whose residence was at 787:Iturea and Trachonitis (tetrarchy) 346:(د) does not correspond to Hebrew 263:encampments, named after a son of 25: 1747: 1016:; et al., eds. (1901–1906). 1026:. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. 1002: 917:, and Cicero. The Jewish writer 807:. Josephus cites a passage from 474:(ظر) meaning "flint", the sound 394:(יט׳ור, يظور) which is rendered 34: 1678: 1665: 1649: 1630: 1611: 1602: 1589: 1567: 1558: 1549: 1540: 1528: 1515: 1502: 1489: 1476: 1466: 1453: 1442: 1415: 1388: 1375: 1348: 1321: 1304:Hellenism in the Land of Israel 1294: 1050:Palestine Exploration Quarterly 45:needs additional citations for 1521:Salah Said & M. Al-Hamad, 1499:, T. C. Newby, 1860, p. 16-17. 1280:. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. 1267: 1240: 1213: 1186: 1159: 1132: 1109: 1082: 1075:Berndt Schaller, 'Ituraea' in 1069: 1039:Catalogue of the Iturean coins 616:, i.e. היתור) and "diggings" ( 13: 1: 1706:Historical geography of Syria 996: 191:in Syria, with its centre in 1689:, ed. Lagarde, pp. 268, 298. 1307:. University of Notre Dame. 953:relates that he was sent by 574:, however such a reading of 482:(צ) in Hebrew. The spelling 231: 7: 1546:Strong's Hebrew Lexicon, 33 1422:Freyne, Sean (2004-12-10). 1095:. Oxford University Press. 987:Cohors I Augusta Ituraeorum 737:(צור) however the use of a 683:(עטור) meaning "crowning". 198: 10: 1752: 1497:The Lebanon (Mount Souria) 776: 772: 334:(ج) corresponds to Hebrew 205: 156: 1599:Mohr Siebeck, 2012 p.200. 961:gave Iturea to a certain 951:Quintus Aemilius Secundus 364:linked the Itureans with 1385:Brill, 2007 p.54, n.306. 1166:Mark A. Chancey (2002). 1062: 1052:, 138,2 (2006), 125-132. 1043:Israel Numismatic Review 983:Ala I Augusta Ituraeorum 530:the initial Greek iota ( 324:Smith's Bible Dictionary 1657:Antiquities of the Jews 1579:Antiquities of the Jews 1057:(available online here) 1023:The Jewish Encyclopedia 827:Whether the Hasmoneans 1220:Doron Mendels (1987). 1122:Topoi. Orient-Occident 1116:David F. Graf (2003). 991:Ephemeris Epigraphica, 947:Ephemeris Epigraphica, 843: 825: 795:1st century in Lebanon 717:indicating an initial 189:Anti-Lebanon Mountains 141: 1721:New Testament regions 1139:Irfan Shahîd (1984). 935:Christian theologians 838: 817: 777:Further information: 390:to the Safaitic name 203:The Itureans (Greek: 135: 1459:William Muir, Esq., 1355:John Wilson (2004). 1247:Steve Mason (2003). 993:1884, p. 194). 709:syllable or initial 554:- the Hebrew letter 54:improve this article 1736:Philip the Tetrarch 1461:The Life of Mohamet 729:(איטור or אטור) or 431:(טור) and the word 183:. It extended from 181:early Roman periods 1655:Flavius Josephus, 844: 823:of their genitals. 490:is represented by 478:(ظ) having become 193:Chalcis ad Libanum 142: 1641:Bellum Africanum, 1435:978-0-567-08467-5 1428:. A&C Black. 1408:978-90-04-26441-0 1383:Life of Josephus, 1206:978-90-04-17355-2 1102:978-0-19-511216-0 805:Hasmonean kingdom 779:Hasmonean Kingdom 558:(י). However, in 507:(יצור). 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