Category:Nabateans (subject)
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The Nabateans were a Semitic population living in Southern Jordan and the northern part of Arabia.
Overview
In the Greek and Roman Period the Nabateans created a powerful kingdom at the borders of the land of Israel. Their cities (Petra and Bosra) controlled the commercial routes from the Arabian peninsula to the Mediterranean.
The Nabateans supported the Maccabeans in their fight against the Seleucids but then resisted to the expansion of the Hasmoneans kings and Herod the Great.
In 106 the Nabaten kingdom was absorbed into the Roman Empire. As part of the new province of Arabia Petrae, the Nabatean towns continued to flourished in the centuries to come.
The Nabateans in ancient sources
The Nabateans in Scholarship
The Nabateans in Fiction
External links
Major articles
- History of the Nabatean Kings / Schurer/Vermes / 1 (1973) 574-586
Pages in category "Nabateans (subject)"
The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
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- The Other Side of the Jordan (1940 Glueck), book
- Deities and Dolphins: The Story of the Nabataeans (1965 Glueck), book
- The Nabatean Potter's Workshop at Oboda (1974 Negev), book
- Roman Arabia (1983 Bowersock), book
- Adone ha-midbar: toldot ha-Nabatim u-mamlakhtam (1983 Negev), book
- The Late Hellenistic and Early Roman Pottery of Nabatean Oboda (1986 Negev), book
- Personal Names in the Nabatean Realm (1991 Negev), book
- The Architecture of Oboda (1997 Negev), book