Editing Jenin (section)

===Ancient period===
{{further|Gina (Canaan)}}Jenin is identified with a number of important towns mentioned in ancient sources. Throughout history, it was referred to as "Ein Ganim", "Beth Hagan", "Ginah", and "Ginae", along other names.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Zertal |first=Adam |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54694679 |title=The Manasseh Hill Country Survey: From Nahal 'Iron to Nahal Shechem |publisher=[[Brill Publishers|Brill]] |year=2016 |isbn=978-90-04-13756-1 |volume=3 |location=Leiden |oclc=54694679 |quote=Jenin is well identified with a number of important sites: in the el-Amarna letters “The Land of Ginah” is mentioned (EA 250), which is probably the E7 of the ‘Execration Texts’ (Posener’s group); in the Bible there is ‘Ein Ganim' (see Kallai’s opinion in EB VI: 207–208) and Beth Hagan (I Kgs 9: 27); in the Book of Judith, it appears as Ginei (Jdt 3: 11) and Ginae of the Roman period appears in Josephus (Ant. XX, vi, 1; War III, iii, 4); in the Moslem and the Crusader sources it appears under many names: Geninum, Le Grand Gerin, Major Gallina, Gerinum Magnum. These identifications refer to the tell and/or the settlement of Jenin |author-link=Adam Zertal}}</ref><ref name=":34" />

Tell Jenin, believed to constitute the original settlement core of the city, is located at the center of what is today Jenin's business district.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Kohlp339">Kohl et al., 2007, p. 339.</ref> The tell is also known as ''Tell el-Nawar'', a term derived from the Arabic word for "[[Romani people|gypsies]]," due to former nomadic encampments in this site. The earliest settlement at the tell dates to the late [[Neolithic]] and the early [[Chalcolithic]]. In the early 20th century, the tell was occupied by a modern cemetery and a threshing floor.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ezzughayyar |first1=Ademar |last2=Al-Zawahra |first2=Muhammad |last3=Salem |first3=Hamed |title=Molluscan Fauna from Site 4 of Tell Jenin (Northern West Bank—Palestine) |url=https://fada.birzeit.edu/bitstream/20.500.11889/8290/1/Molluscan%20fauna%20from%20site%204%20of%20Tell%20Jenin%20%28Northern%20West%20Bank%20-%20Palestine%29.pdf |journal=Journal of Archaeological Science |date=1996 |volume=23 |issue=1–6|page=1 |doi=10.1006/jasc.1996.0001 |bibcode=1996JArSc..23....1E }}</ref>

==== Bronze Age ====
Jenin has been identified as the place [[Gina (Canaan)|''Gina'']] or ''Ginah'' mentioned in the [[Amarna letters]] from the 14th century BCE. At the time, it was a vassal state of the [[New Kingdom of Egypt]].<ref>{{cite book | page = 103 | author = Shmuel Aḥituv | title = Canaanite Toponyms in Ancient Egyptian Documents | publisher = The Magnes Press | year = 1984}}</ref><ref name=":4" /> The people of Gina managed to kill the warlord [[Labaya]] during the reign of [[Pharaoh]] [[Akhenaten]].{{sfnp|Dodson|2016|p=81}}

==== Iron Age ====
Jenin is identical to ''Ein-Ganim'', which the [[Hebrew Bible]] describes as a [[Tribe of Levi|Levite]] city belonging to the [[Israelites|Israelite]] [[Tribe of Issachar]].<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":34"/><ref name=":2">{{Bibleverse|Joshua|19:21}} {{Bibleverse|Joshua|21:27-29}}</ref> It has also been associated with ''Beth-Haggan'', mentioned in [[2 Kings]] in connection with [[Ahaziah of Judah|Ahaziah]]'s flight from [[Jehu]], before he is wounded at [[Ibleam]] and later dies in [[Tel Megiddo|Megiddo]].<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":34"/><ref>{{Bibleverse|2 Kings|9:27}}</ref> The [[Book of Judith]] renders its name as ''Gini''.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4" />