Jerome, Book of Places 79
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Caesareae Palaestinae

, and

Caesarea Palestinae

are directly attested at Jerome, Book of Places 79. This passage was written ca. 390-420 C.E. possibly in Bethlehem. In his lexicon of place names in Hebrew Scripture, Jerome wrote that Dor Nafeth, named at Joshua 11:12, was located near Caesarea on the road to Tyre, which his lemma under Nafeddor repeats (137). The same information is recorded in the parallel passage at Eusebius, Dictionary of Place Names 78, written roughly one century before Jerome’s work.

Dor Nafeth, quod Symmachus transtulit Dor maritima. haec est Dora in nono miliario Caesareae Palaestinae pergentibus Tyrum, nunc deserta. quae cum cecidisset in sortem tribus Manasse, eam possidere non potuit, quia habitatores in illa pristini permansere.

[Ed. Klosterman 1904]

Dor Nafeth, which Symmachus translated Dor Maritima. This is Dora at milestone 9 for those traveling from Caesarea Palestinae to Tyre, now deserted. When it fell to the lot of the tribe of Manasseh, it could not hold it, because the ancient inhabitants stayed there. [Trans. J. L. Rife]

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[Eusebius, Dictionary of Place Names 78

Joshua 11:12]

[Dor (Dor of Nafath, Dor Nafeth, Nafethdor, Nefeddor, Doros, Doroi, Dora, Dora Maritima, Tel Dor, Dor Tantura)

Ptolemais (Acco, Accho, Acre, Akko)

Tyre]

[Symmachus]

[Geography

Hebrew Bible

History of Israel

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Travel]