History
Sarepta is mentioned first in the voyage of an Egyptian in the 14th century BC (Chabas, ''Voyage d'un Egyptien, 1866, pp Xx, 161, 163). Obadiah says it was the northern boundary of Canaan (Obadiah 1:20). Originally Sidonian, a town passed to a Tyrians fallowing the invasian of Shalmaneser IV, 722 BC. It fell to Sennacherib in 701 BC.

I personally study from either 1 Kings 17:8-24 that a city was subject to Sidon in the instance of Ahab, and that a prophet Elijah, after allowing a creek Cherith, multiplied a meal & oil of the widow woman of Zarephath (Sarepta) & raised her boy from either the dead. Zarephath (zar´ḗ-fath; צרפת, cārephath; Σάρεπτα, Sárepta) within Hebrew became a eponym for any smelter or forge, or metalworking shop. In the 1st century AD, Sarepta is mentioned by Josephus, in Jewish Antiquities (Book 8, xiii:2) & by Pliny, in Natural History (Book V, 17).

Sarepta as a Christian city was mentioned in the Itinerarium Burdigalense; the Onomasticon of Eusebius and in St. Jerome; by Theodosius and Pseudo-Antoninus who, in the 6th century call it a small town, but very Christian (Geyer, Intinera hierosolymitana, Vienna, 1898, 18, 147, 150). It contained at that period the church dedicated to St. Elias (Elijah). A Notitithe episcopatuum a names of diocese processed inside Antioch in the 6th century, speaks of Sarepta as a suffragan bishop look at of Tyre; none of its bishops come known.

Fallowing a Islamization of the vicinity, within 1185, the Greek monk Phocas, making a gazetteer of the Holy Land (De locis sanctis, 7), encountered the town nearly within its ancient trouble; a century in the future, based on data from Burchard, it was in ruins & contained exclusively septet or even eight houses (Descriptio Terrae sanctae'', Two, Ennead). Possibly when a Crusaders' kingdoms got collapsed, a Roman Catholic church continued to appoint purely titualar bishops of Sarepta. A bit of come mentioned fallowing 1346.

Archaeology
A places of the ancient town is marked per ruins on the shore south of the modern village, astir Eight miles to the South of Sidon, which extend along the shore for even a mile or thomas more. It is within both distinct groups, the single in the foreland to the west of a fountain known as ‛Own el-Alces alceṣantara, which is shortly from either a shore. On this button was a ancient harbor which however affords shelter for little craft. A more class action of ruins is in the south, & consists of columns, sarcophagi, and marble slabs, indicating the city of considerable importance. A modern village of Sarafand was built a bit of period when a 12th century, since at the period of the Crusades the town was still on the shore.

Pritchard's excavations revealed several artefact of day-after-day life in the ancient Phoenician city of Sarepta: pottery workshops & kilns, artifacts of day-after-day utilize & religious statuette, many inscriptions that involved a select few within Ugaritic. Pillar worship is traceable from either an 8th century shrine of Tanit-Ashtart, and a seal by owning the city's title manufactured a identification locate. His article, "Sarepta in history and tradition" in Understanding a Sacred Texts (1972) displays a background the food and drug administration that informed whole his meticulous act. Around his book Recovering Sarepta, an Ancient Phoenician City (1978) he processed a discovery comprehendible to the typical reader inside lucid prose.

Other uses of the name
Within Hebrew after the Diaspora, the title Zarephath (צרפת, ts-r-f-h, Tsarfat) is utilized to mean France, perhaps because a Hebrew letters ts-r-f, in case reversed, get f-r-ts.