Tel Abib


Tel Abib is an unidentified tell on the Kebar Canal, near Nippur in what is now Iraq. Tel Abib is mentioned in :

Location

The Kebar or Chebar Canal is the setting of several important scenes of the Book of Ezekiel, including the Ezekiel 1#Superscription |opening verses. The book refers to this river eight times in total.
Some older biblical commentaries identified the Chebar with the Khabur River in what is now Syria. The Khabur is mentioned in as the "Habor". However, more recent scholarship is agreed that the location of the Kebar Canal is near Nippur in Iraq.
The ka-ba-ru waterway is mentioned among the 5th century BCE Murashu archives from Nippur. It was part of a complex network of irrigation and transport canals which also included the Shatt el-Nil, a silted up canal toward the east of Babylon.
It is not to be confused with the Kebar River in Iran, site of Kebar Dam, the oldest surviving arch dam.

Legacy

adopted the biblical place-name as the title for his Hebrew translation of Theodor Herzl's 1902 novel Altneuland. It later gave its name to the modern Israeli city of Tel Aviv. The Hebrew letter ב without dagesh represents a sound like , but archaic English translations of the Bible traditionally transcribe it as "b".