 Ananiah, whose name means "protected by God," was identified by the 19th century French traveler V. Guérin, author of "Description de La Jude'e", with the present-day Beit Hanina, located 3 miles north of Jerusalem.Edward Robinson concurred, but W.F.Albright maintained that Ananiah is the village of al-Eizariya east of Jerusalem.