Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Antiguo Oriente
Angaben zur Quelle:
19 (2021) 11-39
Keywords:
Bible Antiquities
;
Eretz Israel Antiquities, Biblical
;
Edom (Kingdom) History
Abstract:
Early Edom owes its success to the shortage of copper in the Near Easternmarkets and the ability of its population to develop the copper mines in the Arabah.The revenues from the copper trade enabled the Edomites improve their life byrelocating to the Negev Highlands and the eastern Beer-sheba Valley and constructingpermanent settlements there. They established a polity whose centre was at Tel Masosand economic engine was at Khirbet en-Nahas in the Arabah. Shoshenq’s campaignmarked a turn in the polity’s history, both politically and technologically. The Pharaohprobably set his protégé, Hadad, in the occupied territories, and through his agentcontrolled the Edomite polity. The Book of Kings relates the ups and downs in therelations of Judah and Edom in the 9th-early 8th centuries BCE. As long as Edom’scentres were located in the regions west of the Arabah, Judah was able to conductcampaigns and occupy its territory. The turn in relations took place in the 8th centurywhen the Edomites established their centres on the plateau, east of the Arabah, whichguaranteed them security and enabled them to develop their kingdom beyond thereach of their western neighbor.
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