Reply To: Naturalistic vs. spectacular supernatural

[Deborah Hurn]

Nevertheless, this note by Aharoni listing all the historical sources that mention or depict Tamar… if it weren’t for 2 Chr 20:2 which IDs Hazazon-tamar with En-gedi, there would be no dispute that H-T is at Ein/Metzad Tamar.

[30] During the Roman-Byzantine period we know of a settlement and fort in this area called Thamara, which appears in slightly different spelling in Ptolemy, the Tabula Peutingeriana, the Notitia dignitatum, the Edict of Beersheba, Eusebius’ Onomasticon, and the Madaba map.

Historical geography is like one puzzle nested in another in another.