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<p> | <p> (Ναβαταῖοι [but Αποταῖοι , Ptol. 6:7; see below], Nab(atsei), mentioned in Isaiah 60:7, under the name "Nebaioth," as a pastoral tribe of Arabia, in connection with [[Kedar]] (comp. Pliny, 5:12), but with no definite specification of locality. (See [[Nebaioth]]). In the period after the exile, the Maccabaean captains [[Judas]] and [[Jonathan]] found the Nabathseans after pressing forward beyond the [[Jordan]] three days' journey into the [[Arabian]] [[Desert]] (1 [[Maccabees]] 5:24; 1 Maccabees 9:35), and it seems clear that they were then in the district adjoiliing Gilead, near the cities of [[Bozrah]] and Carnaim. [[Josephus]] (Ant. 1:2, 4) and Ammianuls [[Marcellinus]] (1 Maccabees 14:8) calls the whole region between the [[Euphrates]] and the [[Red]] [[Sea]] Nabatene (Ναβατηνή); and the latter makes the [[Nabathaeans]] the immediate neighbors of [[Roman]] Arabia, i.e. of the district containing Bozrah and Philadelphia. Other writers, after the [[Christian]] sera, place this people on the AElanitic gulf of the Red Sea (Strabo, 16:777), but extend their territory far into [[Arabia]] Petraea, and make Petra, in [[Wady]] Musa, their capital city (Strabo, 16:779; 17:803; Pliny 5:12; 6:32; Diod. Sic. 2:48; 4:43; 19:94). The Nabathaeans were considered a rich people (Dionys. Perieg. 955); most of them lived a nomadic life, but many prosecuted a regular and important carrying trade through this region (Diod. Sic. 19:94; Apull. Flor. 1:6). They were governed by kings. Pompey, when in Syria, sent an army against them and subdued them (Joseph. Ant. 14:3,3; 6,4). They submitted formallv to the Romans in the time of [[Trajan]] (Dio. Cass. 78:14; Ammian. Marcel. 14:8). </p> <p> The chief cities of the Nabathseans may have stood in the vicinity of Bozrah (q.v.), in Edom; and the accounts which [[Greek]] and Roman writers give respecting the Nabatheans do not perhaps refer exclusively to this particular tribe, but the name with them may include other Arabian tribes, as the Edomites; yet it is probable that a branch of the nomadic Nabathaeans at an early period wandered eastward as far as the Euphrates, in the neighborhood of which lie the Nabathaean morasses (Nabat, "paludes Nabantheorum;" Golius, cited by Forster, Geog. of Arabia, 1:214, note; comp. Strabo, 16:767). [[Ptolemy]] (6:7, 21) mentions Nabathaeans in Arabia [[Felix]] (comp. Steph. Byz. s.v. page 578), unless, with recent editions, we read in this place Ἀποταῖοι , which, however, some suppose to be simply another form of the name (but comp. Reland, Palaest. page 90 sq.; Cless, in Pauly's Realencykl. 377 sq.). In [[Genesis]] (25:13; 28:9; 36:3; comp. 1 Chronicles 1:29) the Nabathaeans are mentioned in genealogical connection with [[Nebaioth]] (q.v.), the first-born son of [[Ishmael]] and brother of Kedar; and a son of Ishmael named [[Nabat]] appears in Arabian tradition (Abulfed. Annal. 1:22), but not as the ancestor of this tribe, who are said to be descended from another Nabat, a son of Mash, and a descendant of Shem. On these traditions the supposition has been based that the Nabathaeans were not Arabians. but Aramaeans; and [[Beer]] believed that remnants of their Aramaean language were concealed in the inscriptions at [[Sinai]] (Robinson, Bibl. Research. 1:544; comp. Quatremere, Memoires sur les Nabateens, Par. 1835; Ritter, Erdk. 12:111 sq.), but the unbroken Biblical genealogy cannot be set aside on behalf of the fragmentary and uncertain traditions of Arabia (Winer, 2:129). The name of the Nabathseans occurs on the cuneiform inscriptions (q.v.). See Smith, Dict. of Gr. and Rom. Geog. s.v. Nabataei; the duke of Luynes, in the Revue Numismatique (new series, Par. 1858, volume 3); the count de Voguf, in the Mlanges d'A rchiologie Orientale (Par. 1868); Vincent, [[Commerce]] of the [[Ancients]] in the Indian Ocean (Lond. 1807), 2:275 sq.; Noldeke, in the Zeitschir. der deutsch. morgenl. Gesellschaft, 25:113 sq. (See [[Petra]]). </p> | ||
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