The legacy of one ancient Arabian people, the Nabataeans, is rich in material remains: the rock‐carved monuments of Petra, their delicately crafted pottery vessels, and huge desert cisterns and aqueducts, to name only a few. Unlike their neighbors to the north in ancient Judea, the ...
The Nabataeans, a powerful people who occupied the northwestern part of Arabia and Trans-Jordan in the NT period, are not mentioned directly in the OT or NT. Jean Starcky has shown that Biblical Nebayoth (Gen 25:13; 1 Chron 1:29) and the Nabayat of the Assyrian chronicles cannot be...
Nabataeans have been associated with other groups of people. A people called the “Nabaiti” who were defeated by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal and described as living “in a far off desert where there are no wild animals and not even the birds build their nests”, were associated by some...
Nabataean, member of a people of ancient Arabia whose settlements lay in the borderlands between Syria and Arabia, from the Euphrates River to the Red Sea. Little is known about them before 312 bc, when they were unsuccessfully attacked by Demetrius I Po
the Romans,Bostra(Bozrah; now Buṣrā al-Shām, Syria) in the extreme north became the capital and legionary camp, but the old royal capital ofPetraremained the religious centre. By constructing a road linking Damascus, via Bostra, Gerasa, Philadelphia, and Petra, toAelanaon theGulf of...