Editing Anab (section)

== Archeology ==
{{coord|31.403832|N|34.944334|E|region:IL|display=title}}Anav is identified with today's Khirbet Anab.<ref name="Woudstra1981">{{cite book |author=Marten Woudstra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BfG1svPVYyQC&pg=PA198 |title=The Book of Joshua |date=27 March 1981 |publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |isbn=978-0-8028-2525-4 |page=198}}</ref> It lies among the [[Hebron Hills]], {{convert|10|mi|abbr=on}}
south-south-west of [[Hebron]], in the [[West Bank]].

'Anab al-Kabir used to be a sizeable village with 60 tax-payers, as noted by Hütteroth and Abdulfattah. The cause of its destruction remains unknown. Currently, it is occupied by [[Bedouin|Bedouins]] from the Ramad'in tribe, who likely settled there during the [[Jordanian annexation of the West Bank|Jordanian control of the West Bank]] (1948–1967).<ref name=":9">Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in '''Shomron studies'''. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 369</ref>

A [[Basilica|basilical-shaped]] church with [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Christian Palestinian Aramaic]] inscriptions was found at the site. The entire complex is 38 x 20 meters. [[Mosaic]] floors were discovered throughout the site; they suffered [[Iconoclasm|iconoclastic]] destruction during the [[Bilad al-Sham|early Islamic period]] (c. 8th century CE). The rooms of the complex were used for habitation during the [[Mamluk Sultanate|Mamluk]] period in the 13th and 14th centuries.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/663773367 |title=Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae: a multi-lingual corpus of the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad |date= |publisher=[[de Gruyter]] |others=Eran Lupu, Marfa Heimbach, Naomi Schneider, Hannah Cotton |year=2018 |isbn=978-3-11-022219-7 |volume=IV: Iudaea / Idumaea |location=Berlin |pages=1399 |oclc=663773367}}</ref>