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suppose, therefore, that the late writer of this verse had any dis- 

 tinct individuals in mind. 



JOSHUA 12:22, 23. 



The twelfth chapter of Joshua gives a list of the kings subdued 

 by the Israelites in the course of their conquest of Canaan, verses 

 1-6 covering the East-Jordan region and verses 7-24: the rulers 

 west of the Jordan. In the list of kings defeated by Joshua in the 

 West-Jordan country appears the King of Dor. Josh. 12:22, 23 

 reads : 



"JHN* ^np. ^^^ (22) 

 -inx nil r\i)p "in '-p,r2 (23) 



The King of Kedesh: One. 



The King of Jokneara, i. e., the Carmel district: One. 



The King of Dor, i. e., the Height of Dov: One. 



The King of the Nations, i. e., the District (= Galilee) : One'. 



The Greek (B) reads: (21, 22) ^acriAea KaSr/s, Bao-tAea ZaKa;!^, Bao-i- 

 Aea Ma/DcSoj^ kuX (SacnXiu 'Icko/i. tov XepyiteA, (23) (iacnXia 'EASw//, tov 4>ev- 

 vtbowp, /SacTiXia Feet t^s raAeiAatas. 



CodeX A is here, as usual, far superior to B. In verses 21, 22 

 both the order and name-forms of the Hebrew are much more faith- 

 fully and more correctly reproduced by A. It has ©amx- MayeSSwv, 

 KeSes and leKova/x. In vei'se 23, A offers instead of 'EA8w/x the form 

 ASSwp. Evidently AS is the combination of the final vowel of /Jao-t- 

 Aea with the initial consonant of Awp — a clear case of dittography. 

 A also offers in this verse the superior reading, Nae^eSSwp. In this 

 form the 88 instead of 68 is probably to be accounted for by the 

 fact that, in the cursive manuscripts, and 8 are written so much 

 alike that they are easily confused'. For Feet, A reads Fwet^, and 

 for FaActAatas it has FeAyea (i. e. FeAyeA, A in an uncial manuscript 



^ See the discussion following, for departures from the usual rendering of 

 this passage. 



^ Maunde Thompson, Hdbk. of Gk. and Lat. Paleography, Table opp. p. 

 148. There may also have been an unconscious assimilation in speech or 

 writing of the to the (5. — For a fuller discussion of the word, see the chap- 

 ter on Naphath Dor. 



