Jerome, Book of Places 23
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Context
In his book of place names in Hebrew Scripture, Jerome wrote that in his
time some believed that Accaron, named at Joshua 13:3, was Strato’s Tower,
the predecessor to Caesarea Maritima. This information is not included in the parallel
passage at Eusebius, Dictionary of Place Names 22, which was written roughly
one century before Jerome’s work.
Text
Accaron in triba Dan, sine ut ego arbitror in tribu Iudae, ad laevam
Chananaeorum. urbs una de quinque olim satrapiis Palaestinae. et decreta est quidem
tribui Iudae, nec tamen tenta ab ea, quia habitatores pristinos nequivit expellere. sed
et usque hodie grandis vicus civium Iudaeorum Accaron dicitur, inter Azotum et Iamniam,
ad orientem respiciens. quidam putant Accaron turrim Stratonis,
postea Casaream nuncupatam.
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Textual Note
Ed. Klosterman 1904Translation
Accaron in the tribe of Dan—or, I think, in the tribe of Judah—to
the left of the Caananites. This city was one of the five former satrapies of Palestine.
It was indeed assigned to the tribe of Judah but nevertheless not held by it, because it
could not expel the ancient inhabitants. Even up to today there is a large village of
Jews called Accaron between Azotus and Iamnia to the east. Some people think that
Accaron is Strato’s Tower, later called Caesarea.
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: 23.
Additional Bibliography
- Eusebius of Caesarea, Palestine in the Fourth Century A.D.: The Onomasticon by Eusebius of Caesarea, ed. Joan E. Taylor, trans. Freeman-Grenville (Jerusalem: Carta, 2003)
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Joseph L. Rife, “Jerome, Book of Places 23,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published June 30, 2023, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/290.
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