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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Syene
The southern edge of Egypt, at modern Aswan by the first cataract of the Nile. Ezekiel uses Migdol and Syene the way we would say from one end of the country to the other.
The southern edge of Egypt, at modern Aswan by the first cataract of the Nile. Ezekiel uses Migdol and Syene the way we would say from one end of the country to the other.
Syene was Egypt's southern frontier town, paired with Migdol in the north as the two ends of the land in Ezekiel's oracles against Egypt (Ezekiel 29:10; 30:6). It sits at modern Aswan, opposite the island of Elephantine at the Nile's first cataract, a strategic gateway between Egypt and Nubia that also gave its name to the region's famous red granite, syenite. Thousands of Aramaic papyri recovered from Elephantine document a Jewish military garrison stationed there in the fifth century BC, evidence of a long-standing Judean presence at this same frontier post.
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- Ezekiel 29:10
- Ezekiel 30:6
