| Title: | Abana |
| Original Title: | Abana |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 1 (1751), p. 8 |
| Author: | Denis Diderot (biography) |
| Translator: | Mark K. Jensen [Pacific Lutheran University] |
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| Citation (MLA): | Diderot, Denis. "Abana." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Mark K. Jensen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2017. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.497>. Trans. of "Abana," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1. Paris, 1751. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Diderot, Denis. "Abana." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Mark K. Jensen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.497 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Abana," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1:8 (Paris, 1751). |
Abana, river of Syria [1] that flows into the sea of that name, [2] after having watered the walls of Damascus on the southern side, which in Scripture gave it the name river of Damascus. [3]
1. Now known as the Barada river.
2. The Carthaginians called the Mediterranean Sea the Sea of Syria.
3. II Kings 5:12: “Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?”