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INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW OF THE BIBLICAL WORLD
0-7. Economy of Ancient Palestine
fruit trees (olives, figs, grapes, pomegranates) iron
grain (wheat, barley)
fish
copper
dye
construction timber
Sidon
cedar trees
Mount Hermon
textiles
fish dye
Damascus
Tyre papyrus
nS ea
Hazor
Ashtaroth
ea
fish
ra n
fish
Kenath
ter
dye
Dor
Megiddo
Me
honey
Shechem fish
J o rd a n R i v e r
di
Beth-shean cattle
Joppa
fish
textiles
honey Jericho
salt Hebron
textiles
textiles
Beersheba
dye
camels iron metalworking iron Rabbah
dates
dates Engedi perfume
Dead Se a
Gaza
Ramoth-gilead
perfume
Jerusalem
Ashdod textiles Ashkelon textiles fish
cattle
Sea of Galilee
Acco
dye
sheep
sheep cattle
sheep
sheep
Kir-hareseth
salt Zoar
dates
camels
perfume sheep sheep copper Kadesh-barnea
WILDERNESS OF ZIN
Punon
ARABIAN DESERT
iron
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