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According to the [[Book of Genesis]], the '''Midianites''' were the descendants of [[Midian, son of Abraham|Midian]], who was a son of [[Abraham]] and his wife [[Keturah]]: "Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah" ([[Genesis (Hebrew Bible)|Genesis]] 25:1–2, [[Authorized King James Version|King James Version]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+25%3A1-2&version=KJV|title= Genesis 25:1–2 |version=King James Version |website=[[Bible Gateway]]}}</ref>
Traditionally, knowledge about Midian and the Midianites' existence was based solely upon Biblical and classical sources,<ref>{{cite book |last=Bryce |first=Trevor |author-link=Trevor R. Bryce |date=2009 |title=The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: From the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire |page=472 |url= |location=[[London]], [[United Kingdom]] |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-0-415-39485-7 }}</ref> but more recently a reference to Midian has been identified in an Arabic inscription dated to before the 9th century BC.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Une première mention de Madyan dans un texte épigraphique
== Land or tribal league? ==
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===Bibliography===
* Clines, David and John Sawyer, eds. "Midian, Moab and Edom: The History and Archaeology of Late Bronze and Iron Age Jordan and North-West Arabia". ''Journal for the Study of the Old Testament'', Supplement Series, No. 24. Sheffield Academic Press, 1983.
* {{Cite book |title=The World around the Old Testament: The People and Places of the Ancient Near East |last=Graf |first=David F. |publisher=Baker Academic |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-4934-0574-9 |pages=
* {{JewishEncyclopedia|title=Midian and Midianites|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10804-midian-and-midianites}}
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