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TAMAR

(Heb. tāmār)

(PLACE)

1. A city “in the wilderness” fortified by Solomon (1 Kgs. 9:18 K), along with Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer (Q “Tadmor”).

2. A site marking the southeastern border of the restored, ideal Israel (Ezek. 47:18-19; 48:28). This would place Tamar in the Arabah on the eastern fringes of the Negeb. The Madeba Map locates a Thamara in the Arabah, which many scholars have identified with Roman remains at Qaṣr el-Juheiniyeh (173048), 21 km. (13 mi.) WSW of the Dead Sea. There is stronger evidence, however, to associate Tamar with Iron Age remains at ʿEn µaṣeva/ʿAin µuṣb (173024), 40 km. (25 mi.) SW of the Dead Sea. The latter site coalesces well with the Madeba Map and satisfies the place name connection between Iron Age, Roman, and Byzantine periods. The stratum VI fortress at ʿEn µaṣeva holds the potential for a 10th-century b.c.e. date, placing it theoretically within an acceptable Solomonic time frame. It is identified with Hazazon-tamar at 2 Chr. 20:2.

Bibliography. R. Cohen and Y. Yisrael, “The Iron Age Fortresses at ʿEn µaṣeva,” BA 58 (1995): 223-35.

Ryan Byrne

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TAMAR

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)