Posted on 01/10/2007 11:10:07 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The first biblical reference to the city of Nob is in Samuel I. During King Saul's reign, after the destruction of Shiloh, priests from the house of Eli resided in Nob, and the tabernacle was located there. After Saul discovered that one of the priests, Ahimelech ben Ahituv, gave David Goliath's sword, which was also kept in Nob, and that David had managed to escape, the king ordered all of Nob's inhabitants killed... Despite Saul's vengeance, the city remained intact for hundreds of years. The prophet Isaiah mentions it in his description of a journey taken by King Ashur of Assyria in 701 BCE... Nob is mentioned again, in Nehemiah's description of the return to Zion, as one of the settlements in the region of Benjamin, located north of Jerusalem between Anathoth, identified with the modern village of Anata, and Ananiah, identified with the modern village of Azzariyeh, according to accepted theories... Archaeologist Professor Hanan Eshel, a senior lecturer at the Martin Szusz Department of Land of Israel Studies at Bar-lan University, suggests that Nob may have been located in the center of the present-day village of Shoafat. His colleague in the Martin Szusz Department, Dr. Gabi Barkai, proposes Jerusalem's French Hill neighborhood as the location of Nob. Other geographic "candidates" competing for the title of the priestly city include the A-Tur neighborhood. In a conference held at Bar-Ilan University last week, Dr. Boaz Zissu proposed a new location: He believes the city was situated at the top of the hill overlooking the Eli branch of the Kidron Valley, called Wadi al-Joz in Arabic.
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I think Nob came from Bree.
The city of Nob...no, I can't.
The Knights Who Say Bree? :-)
NFP
They do not say Ni to eat Brie. ;-)
Hickory, dickory nobbery nee,
what kind of wine goes best with brie?
Prance that pony down to the sea,
Gray Havens wait for a lost shubbery!
'Tis a sick day when you cross Tolkien with Monty Python....
Since wizards are well known for polishing the nob of their staffs, it is no wonder Nob was associated with the priesthood.
I think that slowcoach worked for Barliaman Butterbur.
Great. The MPs will be in here any second now. I'm going out the back.
Oops, I meant Black Riders.
...aaaannnd, it's not that easy to pull it off. Bravo!
...or perhaps The Spanish Inquisition.
Someday we'll all be doing call and answer to all these bits while the nursing home staff gives us all puzzled looks.
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