تل الجديدة תל גודד | |
_looming_in_distance.jpg) Tell Goded (Tell ej-Judeideh) | |
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| Alternative name | Tell Goded |
|---|---|
| Location | Israel |
| Region | Shfela |
| Coordinates | 31°38′00″N 34°55′00″E / 31.63333°N 34.91667°E |
| Grid position | 141/115 PAL |
| Length | 580 metres (1,900 ft) |
| Area | 58 dunams (14 acres) |
| History | |
| Periods | Middle and Late Bronze Age, Iron Age II, Hellenistic, Roman |
| Cultures | Pre-Israelite, Jewish monarchy, Greco-Roman |
| Site notes | |
| Excavation dates | 1900 |
| Archaeologists | Frederick Jones Bliss, R. A. Stewart Macalister |
| Condition | Ruin |
| Public access | yes |
Tell ej-Judeideh (Arabic: تل الجديدة / خربة الجديدة) is a tell in modern Israel, lying at an elevation of 398 metres (1,306 ft) above sea-level. The Arabic name is thought to mean, "Mound of the dykes."[1] In Modern Hebrew, the ruin is known by the name Tell Goded (תל גודד).
The tell, about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of Beit Guvrin and 9.7 kilometres southeast of Tell es-Safi,[2] was first surveyed by Frederick Jones Bliss in June 1897, and partially excavated by Bliss and R.A.S. Macalister in March 1900. It has tentatively been identified with the biblical Moresheth-Gath,[3][4] while others think that it might be Ashan of Joshua 15:42,[5] based on the name's textual proximity to Libnah (thought by Albright to possibly be Tel Burna) and to Ether, a site now recognized as Khirbet el-Ater (grid position 138/113 PAL).[6]
Members of the Palestine Exploration Fund visited the site in the late 19th-century and described seeing there "foundations, heaps of stones, and a cistern."[7]
- ^ Palmer (1881), p. 379 (s.v. Tell el Judeiyideh)
- ^ Charles S. Shaw,The Speeches of Micah: A Rhetorical-Historical Analysis, Continuum International Publishing Group Page 45
- ^ Tsafrir, et al. (1994), p, 242
- ^ Aharoni (1979), p. 439
- ^ Joshua 15:42
- ^ Adcock, James Seth (2018). "Have We Found Biblical Libnah?". Bible and Spade. 31 (3): (note 12).
- ^ Conder & Kitchener (1883), p. 282