The Roman Empire the Empire of the Edomite

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He is the coeditor of Excavating Asian History: Interdisciplinary Studies in Archaeology and History. Beeston examines the differences in the two genealogies and provides an explanation for why they differ.

Although the Bible does not mention the reddish sandstone which characterizes the region, the Book of Genesis mentions "red" a number of times in describing Esau and explaining his alternate name of Edom (red). Learn the true origins of the countries and people of France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, Scotland, Greece, Italy, Russia, Egypt, Israel, Iraq, Iran, China, the Arabs, the Kurds, and more.Edom and Moab were later conquered by the Nabataeans, and the Edomites migrated to southern Judaea, where they were known in New Testament times as Idumaeans. This is the first book to incorporate the important evidence from the Wadi Faynan copper mines into a thorough account of Edom’s history, providing a key resource for students and scholars of the ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible.

Edom at the Edge of Empire combines biblical, epigraphic, archaeological, and comparative evidence to reconstruct the history of Judah’s neighbor to the southeast. Epigraphical evidence suggests that the national god of Edom was Qaus (קוס) (also known as 'Qaush', 'Kaush', 'Kaus', 'Kos' or 'Qaws'), since Qaus is invoked in the blessing formula in letters and appear in personal names found in ancient Edom. In a voice as rich as it is recognized, James Earl Jones lends his narrative talents to the King James Version of the New Testament.Perhaps referencing this familial connection, the Old Testament commands: Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother. Levy, among other scholars, concluded from a survey of the an-Nahas site that Edom was a sophisticated, urbanized society as early as the eleventh century BC, (the date of the first Israelite monarchy, according to the Bible) which even had its own copper works.