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To: fishtank
Gibson has a whole series pertaining to classical and post-classical archaeology and history in the region.
Is the City of Petra referred to in the Qur'an? Dan Gibson outlines the similarity of names and descriptors between to two cities.

#05 Petra in The Qur'an | Dan Gibson | Published on December 12, 2018


#05 Petra in The Quran | Dan Gibson | Published on December 12, 2018

55 posted on 08/05/2019 3:06:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv; Little Ray

... Another note, I didn’t know until this week that Petra was the city known as Sela in the Bible, and it is the capital city of the ancient nation of Edom.


57 posted on 08/05/2019 3:44:57 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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