Mount Amana

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View to Horbat Omrit, to Tel Azzaziat and to the Anti-Lebanon mountains from top of Givat HaEm, Upper Galilee, Israel

Mount Amana (, a-mā'na, a-mä'na,Template:Sfn uh-may'nuhTemplate:Sfn) is an ancient name for the southern Anti-Lebanon Mountains.

Geography

Mount Amana is at the southern endTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains,Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn near the source of the river Abana.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn Paul Haupt identifies this mountain as Jabal az-Zabadany, northwest of Damascus.Template:Sfn

Mount Amana is often confused with Mount Amanus, also known as Mount Hor, at the north end of the Syrian plain.Template:Efn

Notable mentions

Mount Amana is mentioned in Song of Songs (4:8) along with Lebanon, Senir, and Mount Hermon.Template:Sfn Senir, Mount Hermon, and Amana are all prominent mountains on the northern end of IsraelTemplate:Sfn in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains.Template:Sfn In this era, Lebanon referred to both the Lebanese Mountains and the Anti-Lebanese mountains without referring to any particular peak.Template:Sfn A targum on this verse reads "They that dwell on the river Amana shall offer thee a gift."Template:Sfn

The "mountains of Sanir and Amana" are also mentioned in the Book of Jubilees as lying within the inheritance of Shem (8:21), or more specifically, Arpachshad (9:4).

Winckler was the first scholar to suggest that the Mount Ammananu referred to in the inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III should be understood as identical with Amanah,Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn a claim which has been confirmed by more recent scholarship.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

Tacitus records that a triumphal arch was erected on Mount Amana (possibly Mount Amanus) in honor of Germanicus after his death.Template:Sfn

Amana River

In the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible, the name "Amana" is given in the margin to as an alternate reading of Abana,Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn and contemporary scholars prefer the reading Amana,Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn following the targum.Template:Sfn This river flows through Damascus and is currently known as the Barada.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn

Meanings

The name Amana means "constant",Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn "firm",Template:Sfn "faith",Template:Sfn "truth",Template:Sfn "credulity",Template:Sfn or "a nurse".Template:Sfn It was translated in the Septuagint as ,Template:SfnTemplate:Additional citation needed meaning "trust", "fidelity", or "faithfulness"Template:Better source needed

Sources

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