Wadi al-Far'a (river)
| Wadi al-Far'a Nahal Tirzah | |
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| Location | |
| Country | West Bank |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Yasid/Talluza, West Bank |
| • coordinates | 32°16′44.44″N 35°16′47.59″E / 32.2790111°N 35.2798861°E |
| Mouth | Jordan River |
• location | Tubas Governorate |
• coordinates | 32°11′37.1″N 35°27′24.63″E / 32.193639°N 35.4568417°E |
| Length | 30 km (19 mi) |
Wadi al-Far'a (
Name spelling
The Arabic name of Wadi al-Far'a is transliterated in Roman script in many ways. The definite article can be written as al-, el-, without hyphen, or it can be left out altogether. The name of the wadi can be spelled Far'a, Fa'ra, Far'ah, Fa'rah, Farah, Fari'a, or Fari'ah. With diacritics it is Wādī al-Fāri`ah.
The Hebrew name also has a variety of transliterations to Roman script. The word for valley or stream: Nahal or Nachal. The main part of the name: Tirza, Tirzah, Tirtza and Tirtsa.
In ancient sources
Bypassing Pella and Scythopolis he came to Coreae, where travelers from the interior cross into Judaea.[7]
Archaeology
Heavy Neolithic sites
The village of Wadi al-Far'a is close to a number of Heavy Neolithic archaeological sites of the Qaraoun culture. Three such sites were discovered there by Francis Turville-Petre between 1925 and 1926. These are Wadi Farah, Shemouniyeh, and an occupational site at Wadi Sallah. The site at Wadi Farah was identified as a flint factory on a high terrace at the meeting point with the Wadi Salhah[dubious ]. Large numbers of massive flint tools and debris were found and linked to this little known culture. Tools found included picks, adzes, borers and flake scrapers.[8][9]
Tell el-Far'ah (North)
An archaeological mound situated near the village of Wadi al-Far'a, Tell el-Far'ah (North), has been identified as the location of biblical Tirzah. The tell has occupation layers from the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. It is called Tell el-Far'ah (North) in order to distinguish it from Tell el-Far'ah (South), an archaeological site south of Gaza.
See also
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- Far'a refugee camp
- List of rivers of Palestine
- Ras al-Far'a town
- Wadi al-Far'a village
References
- ^ "The Jewish National Fund and Settlements". Whatsbehindjnf.org. 2013-05-18. Retrieved 2015-12-10.
- ^ "JNF in the Jordan Valley: Colonization Now | Hithabrut - Tarabut". Tarabut.info. 2013-01-08. Retrieved 2015-12-10.
- ^ Flavius Josephus; William Whiston (transl., ed.) (1895). Antiquities of the Jews, Book XIV, 3:48. John E. Beardsley. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ Simchoni (1968), p. 478. Simchoni writes that Coreae is "a place that retains its name until today in Ḳurawa, near to the place where there is the confluence of the riverbed Wadi Far'a."
- American Journal of Theology, D.F. Buhl also adhered to the opinion, now almost universal, that Ḳoreā (Coreae) is to be sought for in Ḳurawa and Alexandrium in Ḳarn Sarṭabeh. (George Adam Smith, "Reviewed Work: Geographie des alten Palästina", in: The American Journal of Theology, vol. 1, no. 1 [Jan. 1897], p. 172).
- ^ Bugbee (1901), p. 8
- ^ Josephus. The Jewish War (1.6.5; 4.8.1); Antiquities (14.3.4).
- ^ Moore, A.M.T. (1978). The Neolithic of the Levant. Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis. pp. 446–447.
- ^ Francis A. J. Turville-Petre; Dorothea M. A. Bate; Sir Arthur Keith (1927). Researches in Prehistoric Galilee, 1925-1926. British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem. p. 108. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
Bibliography
- Bugbee, Lucius H. (1901). The Mosaic Map of Medeba. Chicago: University of Chicago. p. 8.
- Josephus. Antiquities of the Jews (14.3.4).
- Simchoni, Jacob N. (1968). The History of the War of the Jews with the Romans (in Hebrew). Ramat-Gan: Masada.
External links
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 15: IAA, Wikimedia commons
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