Brook of Egypt

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The Besor stream (Nahal HaBesor) and nearby streams, with the Bronze and Early Iron Age sites and modern towns of the area.

Brook of Egypt is the name used in some English translations of the

Besor stream, just to the south of Gaza, is the "Brook of Egypt" referenced in the Bible.[3][4] A related phrase is nahar mizraim ("river of Egypt"), used in Genesis 15:18
.

Nahal Besor

The Israeli archaeologist Nadav Na'aman and the Italian

Nahal Besor, was the Brook of Egypt.[3][4] Certainly, it was controlled by Egypt in the Late Bronze Age and inhabited by Philistines into the Iron Age.[5]

Wadi el-Arish

According to

Arabic. It lies in the vicinity of El-Arish, the hometown of the Jewish commentator Saadia Gaon who identified Naḥal Mizraim with the wadi
of El-Arish.

The Septuagint translates Naḥal Mizraim in Isaiah 27:12 as Rhinocorura.

Although in later Hebrew the term naḥal tended to be used for small rivers, in Biblical Hebrew, the word could be used for any wadi or river valley.[6]

According to Sara Japhet,

"Nahal Mizraim" is Wadi el-Arish, which empties into the Mediterranean Sea about 30 miles south of Raphia, and "Shihor Mizraim" is the Nile.[7]

Possible interpretation as the Nile

One traditional Jewish understanding of the term Naḥal Mizraim is that it refers to the

Abraham Ibn Ezra, Bahya ben Asher, Samuel David Luzzatto, Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin and Moisè Tedeschi on Numbers 34:5, reject this interpretation.[10]

References

  1. ^ Görg, M. (1992). Freedman, David Noel (ed.). Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary. New York: Doubleday. s.v. “Egypt, Brook of”.
  2. ISBN 978-0-567-26995-9
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  3. ^ a b Nadav Na'aman, The Brook of Egypt and Assyrian Policy on the Egyptian Border. Tel Aviv 6 (1979), pp. 68-90
  4. ^ a b Mario Liverani (1995). Neo-Assyrian geography, p. 111. Università di Roma, Dipartimento di scienze storiche, archeologiche e antropologiche dell'Antichità.
  5. ISBN 978-0-567-08591-7
    . Retrieved 2 May 2011.
  6. OCLC 29742583.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link
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  7. ISBN 157506121X
    p42
  8. ^ "The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon".
  9. ^ "MikraotGedolot – AlHaTorah.org". mg.alhatorah.org.
  10. ^ "MikraotGedolot – AlHaTorah.org". mg.alhatorah.org.
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