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22-599: Shelah may refer to: Shelah (son of Judah) , a son of Judah according to the Bible Shelah (name) , a Hebrew personal name Shlach , the 37th weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading Salih , a prophet described in the Qur'an whom some scholars believe to be the Islamic counterpart of Shelah son of Judah Salah , sometimes referred to by

44-565: A West Bank Israeli settlement See also [ edit ] Shela (disambiguation) Shelagh Sela (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Shelah . 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=Shelah&oldid=1092402481 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

66-514: A brother refusing to perform levirate marriage. John Emerton regards the evidence for this as inconclusive, though classical rabbinical writers argued that this narrative concerns the origin of levirate marriage. Shephelah The Shephelah ( Biblical Hebrew : הַשְּפֵלָה , romanized:  hašŠəp̄ēlā , lit.   'the Lowlands';) or Shfela ( Modern Hebrew : הַשְּׁפֵלָה , romanized :  haŠfelá ), or

88-559: A harder upper calcrete crust ( nari ), so that in the past people quarried the kirton while leaving the nari layer in place as a ceiling. Apart from using the extracted rock, they also utilised the generated underground hollows for different purposes (refuge, burial, storage etc.). One of the major characteristics is hills formed of marl -covered soft chalk , as opposed to the Judean Hills which are made of hard chalk and dolomite . The valleys and lower areas contain soil with

110-713: A high sand content, as well as large tracts of fertile areas. Seasonal swamps can develop during the rainy season . The southern part is made up of loess , while north of Ashkelon consists of clay . The Shfela has a temperate Mediterranean to semi-arid climate . A series of east–west valleys cuts the Shfelah into districts. From north to south, they are: the Valley of Ayalon , Sorek Valley , Valley of Elah , Guvrin Valley, Valley of Lachish , and Valley of Adorayim . The biblical towns established there guarded settlements of

132-552: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Shelah (son of Judah) According to the book of Genesis, God had killed Shelah's two older brothers, Er and Onan . Judah was unwilling to allow Tamar , who had been successively Er's and Onan's wife, to be married to Shelah. Judah's concern was that Tamar might be cursed and Shelah might die if married to her. So Judah told her to wait until Shelah had grown up. When Shelah came of age, Judah neglected to marry him to Tamar. In

154-458: The Book of Chronicles , Shelah is identified as the name of a clan, containing a subclan named Er. According 1 Chronicles 4:21–23 , the sons of Shelah were: The descendants of the last 4 sons were potters who dwelt at Netaim and Gederah and worked for the king. According to some biblical scholars , the description of Shelah is an eponymous aetiological myth concerning fluctuations in

176-664: The Judaean Foothills (Modern Hebrew: שְׁפֵלַת יְהוּדָה , romanized:  Šfelát Yəhūdá ), is a transitional region of soft-sloping rolling hills in south-central Israel stretching over 10–15 km (6.2–9.3 mi) between the Judaean Mountains and the Coastal Plain . The different use of the term "Judean Plain", as either defining just the Coastal Plain segment stretching along

198-634: The King James Version , its name tends to be translated as 'vale' or 'valley'. The Shfela was the site of many biblical battles. During the Bar Kokhba revolt , hollowed out hills were connected to form elaborate bunker systems for the combat with the Romans. The Shfela consists of fertile rolling hills . Topographically, it represents the transition from the higher and more rugged Jerusalem and Hebron Mountains , whose foothills it forms, and

220-405: The Coastal Plain. About 60 km (35 miles) long in north–south direction and only 13 km (8 miles) wide, it is subdivided into two parts: the western "Low Shephelah", which starts at an altitude of ca. 150 metres above sea level and rises to no more than ca. 200 metres above the Coastal Plain, and the eastern "High Shephelah" rising to altitudes between 250 and 450 metres above sea level. In

242-588: The Judaean Mountains, or also including, or only referring to, the Shfela, often creates grave confusion. Today the Shfela is largely rural with many farms, but the cities of Ashdod , Ashkelon , Rehovot , Beit Shemesh , and Kiryat Gat roughly surround it. The Bible assigned land in the Shfela to the tribes of Judah and Dan . The Shfela is mentioned many times in the Hebrew Bible . In

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264-573: The author of the Book of Chronicles considered the Shelanite clans to be inferior to other Judahite clans, based on their positioning in the biblical text. Scholars have argued that the Tamar and Shelah narrative has a secondary role in either promoting the institution of levirate marriage , or presenting an aetiological myth for its origin; Shelah's role in the narrative would thus be as the example of

286-473: The communication routes throughout history. In geological terms, the Shfela is a syncline , i.e. it formed as a basin whose rock layers were folded downwards, but is part of the wider south Judean anticlinorium -a regional formation characterised by upward folding. Typical to the Shfela are the Senonian - Eocene chalky formations. The soft Eocene chalk is known locally as kirton , which tends to build

308-460: The constituency of the tribe of Judah , with Shelah representing the newest clan to become part of the tribe. The Book of Chronicles' description of Er as a descendant of Shelah, suggests that Er was in reality the name of a clan that was originally equal in status to the Shelah clan, but was later subsumed by it. Professor Aaron Demsky argues that the genealogy of Shelah is an allegory of

330-785: The decline of Philistia. During the decline and ultimate destruction of Judah by the Neo-Assyrian Empire and the Neo-Babylonian Empire , the region was taken over gradually by the Edomites and it became the core of what was known in Greek as Idumea. The Shephela flourished during the Hellenistic period, was strongly affected by the First Jewish–Roman War (66–70) and was largely depopulated of Jews as

352-672: The history of Shelanite clans in Shephelah (i.e. Judean foothills). Remnants of the Er clan joined the Shelanites and founded the city of Lecah, which was the alternative name for Lachish . Later, the Laadah clan founded Mareshah, a town of secondary importance to Lachish. The families of Beth Asheba lived in a town of the same name and produced clothing for the priesthood and aristocracy, using byssus cloth . The Jokim clan founded Chozeba, which

374-582: The interior and took advantage of trade passing along this route. Ayalon was the primary access corridor to Jerusalem along the ascent of Horon . Caves are a major feature of the southern part of the Shfela, many of them bell-shaped such as those in Beit Guvrin . Archaeological surveys in the Shephelah have found evidence of habitation during the Late Bronze period. During the early Iron Age,

396-565: The name "Shelah", a minor Biblical figure (son of Arpachshad, father of Eber) Pool of Siloam , also referred to as the "pool of Shelah", a site of Biblical significance in Jerusalem Shenei Luhot HaBerit , Hebrew initialed "Shelah", 16th-century Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz most influential work Ofer Shelah (born 1960), Israeli politician Saharon Shelah (born 1945), a contemporary mathematician working in set theory and logic Original name of Shadmot Mehola ,

418-556: The population of what has been widely believed to be a Canaanite enclave between the rising centres of both coastal Philistia and the Israelite/Judahite highlands, went into decline, though a string of settlements survived on the eastern edge. In the Iron Age IIA–B, population growth resumed and by the 8th century BCE it was densely populated, not so much by natural growth but as a result of incoming settlers, beginning with

440-489: The short-lived settlement at Khirbet Qeiyafa . The overall estimated numbers for inhabitants range from 50,000 to 100,000, over numerous sites such as Tel Lachish , Azekah , Tel Burna , Tel Zayit , Khirbet el-Qom , Tel Erani , Tel Harasim and Tel Nagila. This colonization, together with the inhabitants of the Canaanite enclave, identified with the highland Israelite/Judahite culture, and its expansion coincides with

462-479: The upper part the valleys descending from the Judean Mountains are deeper, and they broaden once they reach the lower part where the riverbeds create larger spaces between the hills. Where they reach the Shfela, the rivers can flow over substantial distances along the border between the mountains and the hills, forming longitudinal valleys. Passage between the east–west and north–south valleys has dictated

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484-577: Was synonymous with the Chezib near Mareshah. The Joash and Saraph clans lived with the Moabites . The last Shelanite clans to emerge consisted of the residents of Lahem or Lahmas. The last four clans worked for the king, who was most likely Hezekiah . In 701 BC, Sennacherib destroyed important Shelanite cities. Survivors fled to Jerusalem and assimilated with the local populace after the return of Babylonian exiles in c.a. 538 BC. According to Demsky,

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