Editing Anab

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'''Anab''' ({{Langx|he|עֲנָב|‘Ǎnāḇ}}, ''Anav'') is a city mentioned in the [[Hebrew Bible]]. It is mentioned in the [[Book of Joshua]] as one of the cities in the [[Judaean Mountains]] from which [[Joshua]] expelled the [[Anakim]].<ref>Joshua 11:21; 15:50</ref>

==In the Hebrew Bible==
Anav is mentioned in [[Joshua 11]]:21:
{{quote|At that time, Joshua went and wiped out the Anakites from the hill country, from [[Hebron]], [[Debir]], and Anab, from the entire hill country of [[Tribe of Judah|Judah]], and from the entire hill country of Israel; Joshua proscribed them and their towns.<ref>{{cite web |title=Joshua 11:21 |url=https://www.sefaria.org/Joshua.11.21?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en |website=www.sefaria.org}}</ref>}}
Later, [[Joshua 15]]:50 lists Anav as one of several sites incorporated into the hilly parts of the territory of the Tribe of Judah.

== In later sources ==
Anab was mentioned in a Jewish document, written in [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], self-dated to the "4th year after the destruction of the house of Israel", which scholars put at 140 CE, four years after the Roman suppression of the [[Bar Kokhba revolt]].<ref>אשל, א' אשל, ח' וירדני, ע' (תשס"ט), "[https://www.ybz.org.il/?CategoryID=185&ArticleID=6809#.YwyOFXZBxPY שטר מ'שנת ארבע לחורבן ישראל": עדות נדירה לגזרות הדת אחרי מרד בר-כוכבא]", קתדרה, 132, עמ' 5-24</ref>

== Archeology ==
{{coord|31.403832|N|34.944334|E|region:IL|display=title}}Anav is identified with today's Khirbet Anab.<ref name="Woudstra1981">{{cite book |author=Marten Woudstra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BfG1svPVYyQC&pg=PA198 |title=The Book of Joshua |date=27 March 1981 |publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |isbn=978-0-8028-2525-4 |page=198}}</ref> It lies among the [[Hebron Hills]], {{convert|10|mi|abbr=on}}
south-south-west of [[Hebron]], in the [[West Bank]].

'Anab al-Kabir used to be a sizeable village with 60 tax-payers, as noted by Hütteroth and Abdulfattah. The cause of its destruction remains unknown. Currently, it is occupied by [[Bedouin|Bedouins]] from the Ramad'in tribe, who likely settled there during the [[Jordanian annexation of the West Bank|Jordanian control of the West Bank]] (1948–1967).<ref name=":9">Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in '''Shomron studies'''. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 369</ref>

A [[Basilica|basilical-shaped]] church with [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Christian Palestinian Aramaic]] inscriptions was found at the site. The entire complex is 38 x 20 meters. [[Mosaic]] floors were discovered throughout the site; they suffered [[Iconoclasm|iconoclastic]] destruction during the [[Bilad al-Sham|early Islamic period]] (c. 8th century CE). The rooms of the complex were used for habitation during the [[Mamluk Sultanate|Mamluk]] period in the 13th and 14th centuries.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/663773367 |title=Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae: a multi-lingual corpus of the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad |date= |publisher=[[de Gruyter]] |others=Eran Lupu, Marfa Heimbach, Naomi Schneider, Hannah Cotton |year=2018 |isbn=978-3-11-022219-7 |volume=IV: Iudaea / Idumaea |location=Berlin |pages=1399 |oclc=663773367}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Book of Joshua]]
[[Category:Hebrew Bible cities]]
[[Category:Anakim]]
[[Category:Archaeological sites in the West Bank]]
[[Category:Tribe of Judah]]
[[Category:Hebron Hills]]