Arad & The Desert Tours

Arad is named after the Biblical Canaanite town located at Tel Arad (a Biblical archaeology site famous for the discovery ofostraca) which is located approximately 8 kilometers (5.0 mi) west of modern Arad. The Bible (Judges 1:16) describes it as a Canaanite stronghold whose king kept the Israelites from moving from the Negev to the Judean Mountains, although Tel Arad was destroyed over 1,200 years before the arrival of the Israelites. However, Shoshenq I's chronicles seem to mention a settlement in Tel Arad. During the Byzantine period, the location was still correctly identified by Eusebius, and the name Arad was preserved by the Bedouins