Al-Qaryatayn, Palestine

Khirbet al-Qaryatayn (also spelled el-Qaryatein in the southern Hebron Hills) is a ruin c. 20 km south of Hebron and a few kilometres southeast of as-Samuʿ.

It is identified with Biblical Kerioth, allotted to Judah in the Negeb (Joshua 15:25). Some traditions connect the epithet "Iscariot" with "man of Kerioth," though this remains debated in scholarship and is not decisive for locating the site.

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