The name Aphek or Aphec refers to one of several locations mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the scenes of a number of battles between the Israelites and the Arameans and Philistines :
12-569: Afek (Hebrew: אֲפֵק ) can refer to: Places in the biblical Land of Israel [ edit ] Aphek (biblical) refers to a number of sites with the same name mentioned in the Bible Aphik (Asher) one of the biblical sites belonging to the Tribe of Asher Aphaca, a city in classical Syria believed by some to be the Asherite city: Afka ,
24-677: A former Syrian village at the Tel Afik , a current Israeli settlement and kibbutz at the Tel Fiq Airfield , a small civilian airfield near the settlement/kibbutz Afikim , a kibbutz in the Galilee nearby, but unrelated to the Golan Heights site Other uses [ edit ] Afek (surname) , Hebrew-language surname Afek (mythology) , a cultural heroine in some Papuan groups' mythology Afek Oil & Gas,
36-733: A modern town at the site in Lebanon Tel Afek , a site located near Haifa believed by some to be the Asherite city Afek, Israel , a kibbutz located at the Tel near Haifa Another site known as Tel Afek or Antipatris , near Petah Tikva and Rosh HaAyin Migdal Afek , also near Rosh HaAyin Majdal Yaba Aphek Turris also refers to Majdal Yaba A site in the Golan Heights: Fiq, Syria ,
48-637: A mound located within Kibbutz Ein Gev . A more recent theory has focused on regarding this same Aphek also as the scene of the two battles against the Philistines mentioned by the Bible - the supposition being that the Syrians were invading Israel from the western side, which was their most vulnerable. Since most scholars agree that there were more than one Aphek, C.R. Conder identified
60-672: A subsidiary of Genie Energy Ltd. and controls Genie Energy Ltd.'s oil and gas exploratory project in Northern Israel, including the Golan Heights region Battle of Aphek , in which the Philistines defeated the Israelite army and captured the Ark of the Covenant See also [ edit ] Fiq (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
72-481: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Aphek (biblical) After the turn of the 20th century the predominant opinion was that the location of all these battles is one and the same, and that the town lay east of the Jordan. Initially it was thought that the name is preserved in the now depopulated village of Fiq near Kibbutz Afik , three miles east of
84-641: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1955 under Yohanan Aharoni , and he received his Ph.D. from that institution. After the 1967 Six-Day War Kochavi carried out the first thorough survey of the Judean Hills . In 1968 he joined Aharoni in the Tel Aviv University's Department of Archaeology and helped establish the new archaeological institute . He led Tel Aviv University's excavation at Tel Hadar between 1987 and 1995 as part of
96-465: The Sea of Galilee , where an ancient mound, Tell Soreg , had been identified. Excavations by Moshe Kochavi and Pirhiya Beck in 1987–1988 have indeed discovered a fortified ninth- and eighth-century BCE settlement, probably Aramean, but Kochavi considered it to be too small to serve the role ascribed to Aphek in the Bible. The site most favoured now by the archaeologists is Tel 'En Gev /Khirbet el-'Asheq,
108-558: The Aphek of Eben-Ezer with a ruin ( khirbet ) some 3.7 miles (6 km) distant from Dayr Aban (believed to be Eben-Ezer), and known by the name Marj al-Fikiya ; the name al-Fikiya being an Arabic corruption of Aphek. Eusebius , when writing about Eben-ezer in his Onomasticon , says that it is "the place from which the Gentiles seized the Ark , between Jerusalem and Ascalon , near
120-400: The title Afek . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Afek&oldid=1254708294 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Hebrew-language text Short description
132-524: The village of Bethsamys ( Beit Shemesh )," a locale that corresponds with Conder's identification. [REDACTED] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Singer, Isidore ; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Aphek" . The Jewish Encyclopedia . New York: Funk & Wagnalls. 32°05′00″N 34°53′00″E / 32.0833°N 34.8833°E / 32.0833; 34.8833 Moshe Kochavi Moshe Kochavi ( Hebrew : משה כוכבי , 1928–2008)
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#1732794103119144-600: Was an Israeli archeologist and a founding faculty member of Tel Aviv University 's Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Studies . Born in Bucharest, Romania , Kochavi (birth surname: Stern) immigrated to Palestine with his parents at the age of 5. Kochavi was drafted by the Palmach in 1947. He served in the Yiftach Brigade and was wounded during Operation Yoav . Kochavi began studying archeology at
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