Ananiah

Ananiah, in the Bible, is a town in the tribe of Benjamin between Nob and Hazor (modern Tell el-Qedah){{cite book|author=David Noel Freedman|title=Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P9sYIRXZZ2MC&pg=PA560|year=2000|publisher=W.B. Eerdmans|isbn=978-0-8028-2400-4|page=560}} ({{bibleverse||Nehemiah|11:32|NIV}}). It is one of the localities inhabited by the tribe of Benjamin after the return from the Babylonian Exile.{{bibleverse||Nehemiah|11:32|NIV}} Ananiah, whose name means "protected by God," was identified by the 19th century French traveler V. Guérin, author of Description de La Jude'e, with the present-day Beit Hanina, located 3 miles north of Jerusalem.Guérin, 1868, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongog01gu#page/394/mode/1up 394] Edward Robinson concurred, but W.F. Albright maintained that Ananiah is the village of al-Eizariya east of Jerusalem.[http://www.beithanina.org/en/bh/about_bh.html About Beit Hanina] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223194021/http://www.beithanina.org/en/bh/about_bh.html |date=February 23, 2009 }} Official Website Beit Hanina Community Center; Mohamed Shaker Sifadden{{cite book | author = W. F. Albright | chapter = Excavations and Results at Tell El-Fûl (Gibeah of Saul) by the Director of the School in Jerusalem | title = American Schools of Oriental Research, Annual | volume = 4 | year = 1922–1923 | pages = [https://archive.org/stream/jstor-3768487/3768487#page/n162/mode/1up 158]–160}} Some modern scholars also identify Ananiah with al-Eizariya.{{cite journal | author = G. Barkay, A. Fantalkin and O. Tal | title = A Late Iron Age Fortress North of Jerusalem | journal = Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research | volume = 328 | issue = 328 | pages = 49–71 | year = 2002 | doi=10.2307/1357779| jstor = 1357779 | s2cid = 162209614 }}{{cite journal | author = Boaz Zissu | title = Excavations near Nahmanides Cave in Jerusalem and the Question of the Identification of Biblical Nob | journal = Israel Exploration Journal | volume = 62 | number = 1 | year = 2012 | pages = 54–70}}