Jaffa

===Iron Age===
The city was under Egyptian rule until around 1200 BCE.<ref name="Shelley22">{{cite journal |title='He Went Down to Joppa and Found a Ship Going to Tarshish' (Jonah 1:3): Landscape Reconstruction at Jaffa and a Potential Early Harbour |journal=International Journal of Nautical Archaeology |url=https://www.academia.edu/95122032 |last1=Wachsmann |first1=Shelley |issue=2 |volume=51 |pages=267–303 |last2=Burke |first2=Aaron A. |doi=10.1080/10572414.2022.2148819 |year=2022 |issn=1057-2414 |last3=Dunn |first3=Richard K. |last4=Avnaim-Katav |first4=Simona|bibcode=2022IJNAr..51..267W }}</ref>{{rp|270–271}}

;Biblical narrative
In the [[Hebrew Bible]], Jaffa is depicted as the northernmost [[Philistines|Philistine]] city, bordering the [[Israelites|Israelite]] territories – more specifically those of [[Tribe of Dan]] (hence the modern term "[[Gush Dan]]" for the center of the coastal plain). The Israelites did not manage to take Jaffa from the Philistines.<ref name=":2">{{cite journal |author1=[[Anson F. Rainey]] |date=February 2001 |title=Herodotus' Description of the East Mediterranean Coast |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1357657 |journal=Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research |publisher=The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The American Schools of Oriental Research |issue=321 |pages=58–59 |doi=10.2307/1357657 |jstor=1357657 |access-date=20 May 2021 |s2cid=163534665}}</ref>

Jaffa is mentioned four times in the [[Hebrew Bible]]:<ref name="Shelley22" />{{rp|271}} as the northernmost [[Philistines|Philistine]] city by the coast, bordering the territory of the Tribe of [[Dan (son of Jacob)|Dan]] ({{bibleverse|Joshua|19:46}}); as port-of-entry for the [[Lebanon Cedar|cedars of Lebanon]] for [[Solomon's Temple]] ({{bibleverse|2 Chronicles|2:16}}); as the place whence the prophet [[Jonah]] embarked for [[Tarshish]] ({{bibleverse|Jonah|1:3}}); and again as port-of-entry for the cedars of Lebanon for the [[Second Temple]] of Jerusalem ({{bibleverse|Ezra|3:7}}).