Plains of Moab
The Plains of Moab (
Station of the Exodus and the place from which Moses climbs up on Mount Nebo "to the top of Pisgah", where he dies (Deut. 34:1
).
Geography
Wadi Nimrin, and the southern tip created by the Moab hills south of Wadi el-'Azeimeh, which stretch out from the Moab Plateau toward the NE end of the Dead Sea, closing off the Plains.[2] Glueck names the three main streams crossing the Plains toward the Jordan as, from north to south, Wadi Nimrin, which before emerging from the hills is called Wadi Sha'ib; Wadi el-Kefrein; and Wadi er-Ramah, called Wadi Hesban in the hills, which merges with Wadi el-Kefrein two-thirds of the way across the Plains.[2]
In his 1856 book The Sacred Plains J.H. Headley described the Plains of Moab as having a wider extent: "The Plains of Moab lie east of the Dead Sea and River Jordan. The
Moabites had possessed the whole plains from the southern part of the Dead Sea to Mount Gilead; but the Amorites had warred against them, and wrestled all that portion lying north of the River Arnon from them..."[3]
Persian period
In the 4th century BCE,
Beth-nimrah, their city marking the easternmost point of Jewish settlement in Transjordan.[4]
See also
- Map: Portion of Eastern Palestine surveyed in the 1870s by the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF)
References
- ^ Num. 22:1, 26:3, 26:63, 31:12, 33:48, 33:49, 33:50, 35:1, 36:13; Deut. 34:1, 34:8; Joshua 13:32
- ^ a b Glueck (1943), p. 10.
- ^ The Sacred Plains, J.H. Headley, 1856, "The Plains of Moab"
- OCLC 890732071.
Bibliography
- JSTOR 3219054.