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Beersheba (/ b ɪər ˈ ʃ iː b ə / beer-SHEE-bə), officially Be'er-Sheva (usually spelled Beer Sheva; Hebrew: בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע, romanized: Bəʾēr Ševaʿ, IPA: [ˈbe(ʔ)eʁ ˈʃeva(ʕ)] ⓘ / [beʁˈʃeva]; Arabic: بِئْر السَّبْع, romanized: Biʾr as-Sabʿ Arabic pronunciation: [biʔr‿as.sabʕ]; lit.
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Tel Sheva (Hebrew: תל שבע) or Tel Be'er Sheva (Hebrew: תל...
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Reuven "Ruvik" Danilovich (Hebrew: רוביק דנילוביץ', born...
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The Battle of Beersheba (Turkish: Birüssebi Muharebesi,...
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The Beersheba culture is a Late Chalcolithic archaeological...
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2 days ago · Beersheba, biblical town of southern Israel, now a city and the main center of the Negev region. It is first mentioned in Genesis as the site where Abraham made a covenant with the Philistine king Abimelech of Gerar. After being taken by Israeli troops in 1948, it became a center of industry and technology.
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A large area of the site was excavated between 1969 and 1976, producing several layers of the remains of settlement, including fortified towns of the early Israelite period and the monarchic period of Judah, covered by remnants of small fortresses dated from the Persianto the Roman periods. The earliest remains of settlement at Beersheba are a numb...
The modern settlement dates from 1900, when the Turkish government set up an administrative district in southern Palestine separate from that of Gaza and built an urban center in this purely nomadic region. The Turks were motivated by the need to strengthen governmental authority over the Bedouin at a time when Turkey was struggling with Britain ov...
G. Dalman, Sacred Sites and Ways (1935), index; S. Klein (ed.,) Sefer ha-Yishuv, 1 (1939) S.V.; Albright, in: JPOS, 4 (1924), 152; Alt, ibid., 15 (1935), 320; L. Woolley and T.E. Lawrence, Wilderness of Zin (1915), 45ff., 107 ff.; Perrot, in: IEJ, 5 (1955), 17, 73, 167; Contenson, ibid., 6 (1956), 163, 226; Dothan, in: Atiqot, 2 (Eng., 1959), 1ff.;...
Beersheba (Hebrew: בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע , Be'er Sheva, Turkish: Birüssebi) is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel, often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev." In the Bible, water-rich Beersheba was once the home of each of the major Hebrew patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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Beersheba, on the northern edge of the barren Negev desert and about 75 kilometres south of Jerusalem, features in several other events of Bible history: • Abraham and his wife Sarah evicted her slave-girl Hagar and Hagar’s son Ishmael (fathered by Abraham) to wander in the wilderness.
