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Midian (; ; ; ; ) was a son of Abraham and his wife Keturah, as well as the eponymous ancestor of the Midianites. The name also refers to a geographical region in West Asia, in the Tabuk Province in modern-day Saudi Arabia, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran. William G. Dever states that biblical Midian was in the "northwest Arabian Peninsula, on the east shore of the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea", an area which contained at least 14 inhabited sites during the Late Bronze and early Iron Ages.

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Abrahamic religions
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Molnár Ábrahám kiköltözése 1850.jpg
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Detail from The migration of Abraham and his relatives to Canaan (1850) by József Molnár
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Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah
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Detail of a painting, showing Abraham and his sons.
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he
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מִדְיָן
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Abraham
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Keturah
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Midian Mountains
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File:جبل حبيش.jpg
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Jabal Ḥubaysh ()
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Saudi Arabia#Middle East#Asia
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Tabuk (KSA) 'Aqabah (Jordan) Middle East

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مَـدْيَـن‎
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16 sections
Contents
  • Religious history
  • Pantheon
  • Christian period
  • Archaeology
  • Metallurgy
  • Pottery
  • Temples
  • In scriptures
  • In the Bible
  • In the Quran
  • Midian Mountains
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • External links

Midian (; ; ; ; ) was a son of Abraham and his wife Keturah, as well as the eponymous ancestor of the Midianites. The name also refers to a geographical region in West Asia, in the Tabuk Province in modern-day Saudi Arabia, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran. William G. Dever states that biblical Midian was in the "northwest Arabian Peninsula, on the east shore of the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea", an area which contained at least 14 inhabited sites during the Late Bronze and early Iron Ages.

Scholars believe the Midian originally referred, not to a geographical location, but instead, to a tribal confederation. This was first suggested in 1909 by Paul Haupt who termed Midian a "cultic collective" () or an amphictyony, and has since been widely adopted.

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