Eusebius of Caesarea, Dictionary of Place Names 78
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Context
In his lexicon of place names in Hebrew Scripture, Eusebius wrote that
Dor of Nafath named at Joshua 11:12 is located near Caesarea Maritima. He
also cited the Greek translation of by Symmachus in the late 2nd century C.E. The same
information is recorded in the parallel passage at Jerome, Book of Places
79, written roughly one century after Eusebius’ work.
Text
Δῶρ τοῦ Ναφάθ. Σʹ Δὼρ “τῆς παραλίας”, αὕτη ἐστὶ Δῶρα ἡ πρὸς
Καισάρειαν τῆς Παλαιστίνης ἀπὸ σημείων θʹ ἀπιόντων Τυρὸν, νῦν
ἔρημος, ἣν οὐκ ἔλαβεν ἡ φυλὴ Μανασσῆ, ὅτι μὴ ἀνεῖλεν τοὺς ἐν αὐτῇ ἀλλοφύλους.1
Textual Note
Ed. Klosterman 1904Translation
Dor of Nafath. Symmachus: Dor “by the Sea”. This is the Dor near
Caesarea Palestinae, nine milestones away for those travelling
to Tyre, now deserted, which the tribe of Manasseh did not take because they could not
expel the foreign tribes there.
Translation Note
Trans. J. L. RifeWorks Cited
- 1 Eusebius of Caesarea, Eusebius Werke III.1. Das Onomastikon der biblischen Ortsnamen, ed. Erich Klostermann, repr. Hildesheim: Georg Olms 1966, Die grieschischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten drei Jahrhunderte (Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1904), p: 78.
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Joseph L. Rife, “Eusebius of Caesarea, Dictionary of Place Names 78,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published October 19, 2022, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/129.
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Entry Title: Eusebius of Caesarea, Dictionary of Place Names 78
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