Introduction

• Nabataean Scripts
• Nabataeans (South-Arabia?)
• Nabataean Inscriptions
• What can Nabataean Aramaic tell us about Pre-Islamic Arabic?

Religion

• Rites/Duties of Nabataeans
• Sun God

Belief in Afterlife

• Life and Death in Nabataea

Nabataean Agriculture

• Nabataean Agriculture

Biblical Scholarship // Nabataeans

• Nabaioth and the Nabateans
• Strabo’s account of Nabataeans
• Nabataeans held in Jewish society
• Amalekites = Nabateans?
• Scholarship linking the Nabatean god Dushara (“Lord of Seir”) with the Jewish Yahweh?

More

• Apollodorus of Damascus
• Kingdom of Antigonus
• Origin of Nabataeans
• More on the origins of the Nabataeans
• Nabataeans through their inscriptions: Origins (Prof. Sanchez)
• The Roman annexation of the Nabataean kingdom (Prof. Macdonald & al-Jallad)