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Line 19: }} '''Midian''' ({{IPAc-en\|ˈ\|m\|ɪ\|d\|i\|ən}}; {{lang-he\|מִדְיָן}} ''Mīḏyān'' {{IPA-he\|mid.jaːn\|}}; {{lang-ar\|مَدْيَن\|Madyan}}; {{lang-grc-gre\|Μαδιάμ}}, ''Madiam''){{Efn \| Also {{lang\|grc\|Μαδιανίτης}} for "Midianite".}} is a geographical place mentioned in the [[Hebrew Bible]] and [[Quran]]. [[William G. Dever]] states that biblical Midian was in the "northwest [[Arabian Peninsula]], on the east shore of the [[Gulf of Aqaba]] on the [[Red Sea]]", ~~an area which he notes was "never extensively settled until the 8th–7th century B.C."~~<ref>{{citation \|last= Dever \|first= W. G. \|author-link= William G. Dever \|title=Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? \|publisher=[[William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.]] \|date=2006 \|isbn= 978-0-8028-4416-3 \|page=34}}</ref> an area which contained at least fourteen inhabited sites during the Late Bronze and early Iron Ages.{{sfn\|Graf\|2016\|p=428}} 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> Line 107: == References == {{reflist}} ===Bibliography=== * {{JewishEncyclopedia}} * 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=417-466 \|editor-last=Arnold \|editor-first=Bill T. \|chapter=Arabia and the Arabians \|editor-last2=Strawn \|editor-first2=Brent A. \|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e9xrDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT459&dq=the+world+around+the+old+testament+the+ethnic+designation+%22Arab%22&hl=es}} * {{JewishEncyclopedia\|title=Midian and Midianites\|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10804-midian-and-midianites}} == ~~Sources~~External links == {{refbegin}} ▲* 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. {{Commons category}} * {{cite encyclopedia \|last1=Singer \|first1=Isidore \|first2=M. \|last2=Seligsohn \|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=585&letter=M&search=Midian \|title=Midian and Midianites \|encyclopedia=[[Jewish Encyclopedia]] \|publisher=[[Funk & Wagnalls]] \|year=1901–1906}}, which cites to: * [http://www.jewishmag.com/95mag/timna/timna.htm Archaeology of Timna] * [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Archaeology/timna.html Another Timna archaeology site]

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