NEAREAST 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dead Sea, Timna Valley, Semitic Languages
20 Nov 2016
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926 bce: israel (northern kingdom) and judah (house of david) (southern kingdom) are formed. 720 bce: the kingdom of israel is destroyed when the capital samaria fell. 586 bce: the kingdom of judah is destroyed when the capital jerusalem fell. East of the jordan from south to north: Considered the lingua franca of the middle east. Judah ( house of david or southern kingdom ) Both kingdoms shared the same god: the god of israel. Both kingdoms spoke hebrew, was taken from phoenician. Developed a semitic language called phoenician - first to create the alphabet with 22 letters. Philistia: southern seashore plains (where the philistines used to be) Not sure if there was a philistine language. Arava: region in the syrian-african rift south of the dead sea (timna valley) Arab tribe called the midianites lived here, were protected by the egyptians for the mass amount of copper. Some edomite tribes settled here from their kingdom in the east.
