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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: White Israelite on September 02, 2009, 05:09:23 PM
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I've been reading up about Herod The Great and wikipedia claims he was a Nabataean. I've read about Nabataeans and it looks like they built cities into mountains and what not, I seen a few pictures from Jordan and the Negev Desert in Israel. What was their status with the original Israelites?
I can barely find any information about them.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/PetraTreasury.JPG)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Shivta01_ST_05.JPG)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Nabatean_Pillars_Bosra.jpg)
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Herod's mother was Nabatean and his father was an Edomite, if I am not mistaken.
Nabateans were pretty much the precursor to Arabs. They spoke a language similar to Arabic.
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Herod's mother was Nabatean and his father was an Edomite, if I am not mistaken.
Nabateans were pretty much the precursor to Arabs. They spoke a language similar to Arabic.
Weren't the Arabs originally from the Arabian peninsula? I thought they had little presence until the Islamic revolution other than a few nomads (like the bedouin)
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Herod's mother was Nabatean and his father was an Edomite, if I am not mistaken.
Nabateans were pretty much the precursor to Arabs. They spoke a language similar to Arabic.
Weren't the Arabs originally from the Arabian peninsula? I thought they had little presence until the Islamic revolution other than a few nomads (like the bedouin)
The Nabateans were the Northern Arabs, and although they did descend from Arabia, the Nabateans I am pretty sure were the descendants of traders who made their way north.
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Herod's mother was Nabatean and his father was an Edomite, if I am not mistaken.
Nabateans were pretty much the precursor to Arabs. They spoke a language similar to Arabic.
Weren't the Arabs originally from the Arabian peninsula? I thought they had little presence until the Islamic revolution other than a few nomads (like the bedouin)
The Nabateans were the Northern Arabs, and although they did descend from Arabia, the Nabateans I am pretty sure were the descendants of traders who made their way north.
I see, I didn't think Arabs ever had a presence in the Levant. I figured it was mainly Israelites, Canaanites, Moabites, Amalekites, Amorites, etc.
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Is this Petra in Israel??