Gibeon (ancient city): Difference between revisions

[[Eusebius of Caesarea|Eusebius]], in his ''[[Onomasticon (Eusebius)|Onomasticon]]'', mentions Gibeon (Gabaon) as formerly being inhabited by the Gibeonites, who were a [[Hivite]] nation, and that their village was located about 4 milestones to the west of Bethel, near Ramah.<ref>{{cite book |translator=G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville |editor-last1=Chapmann III |editor-first1=R.L. |editor-last2=Taylor |editor-first2=J.E. |editor-link2=Joan E. Taylor |title=Palestine in the Fourth Century A.D.: The Onomasticon by Eusebius of Caesarea |publisher=Carta |date=2003 |location=Jerusalem|page=41 (s.v. Gabaon) |language=en|isbn=965-220-500-1 |oclc=937002750}}</ref> The 10th-century lexicographer, [[David ben Abraham al-Fasi]] identified ''al-Ǧīb''" (now [[Jib (village)|al-Jib]]) with the ancient city Gibeon, which view was corroborated alsoaccepted by the[[:de:Frants HebrewBuhl|Frants LexiconBuhl]] compiledand by other [[WilhelmHistorical Geseniusgeography|historical geographer]]s<ref>{{cite andbook Frants|last=Aharoni|first=Y. Buhl|author-link=Yohanan ("nowAharoni |title=The Land of the Bible: A Historical Geography''al|edition=2 |publisher=Westminster Press |location=Philadelphia|year=1979|page=435 |language=en|isbn=0664242669 |oclc=6250553}} (original Hebrew edition: 'Land of Israel in Biblical Times -Ǧīb Historical Geography''", [[Bialik Institute]], Jerusalem (1962))</ref> and described as such in the Hebrew Lexicon compiled by [[Wilhelm Gesenius]].<ref>Solomon Skoss, ''The Hebrew-Arabic Dictionary of the Bible known as Kitab Jami al-Alfaz (Agron) of David ben Abraham Al-Fasi, the Karaite'' (New Haven: Yale 1936), introd. p. xxxviii.</ref> and proved by Hebrew inscriptions unearthed in 1956.<ref name=newencyc/>