56 George Dahl, 



upon them that dwelt in Dor and Accho, and upon all that dwelt in 

 Jamnia ; and they that dwelt in Azotus and Ascalon feared him 

 exceedingly." 



After 'Aa-KdXdDVL, i^. H.-P. X, 58. Syr, Old Lat., read koI Td^rj. 

 It is quite possible that Gaza stood in the original text. For 

 'OKeiva, i^'^^ and H.-P. 19, 108 read Ktvmiovs- But the town-name 

 better fits the context. 'Okuvo. is, as most commentators agree, 

 Accho (= Ptolemais), a haven north of Carmel. 



For the third town in the list, the B-text reads 'Acrcroi5p, of which 

 'Act is merely the repetition of the final letters of the preceding Kar- 

 otKoi'vras. The reading of ^^*, Tovp^ is perhaps influenced b}^ the pre- 

 ceding Tvpti}. The Syriac with ^'>oja evidently renders a Greek name 

 written with o-. Lohr (in Kautzsch's Apokry2)hen) , following Ball 

 (in TFrtce's ApocrypluC) and Ewald', interprets the form as an acci- 

 dental repetition of the foregoing Tupw, ( = ^or.). Fritzsche rightly 

 rejects Ewald's suggestion as being quite improbable, and fixes 

 instead upon "111 as the city here referred to. He argues that the 

 locality speaks strongly for his interpretation; and that Dor and 

 Accho are so close to one another that the fact that the names have 

 exchanged places in the list is quite Avithout significance. It should 

 be remarked in this connection that ancient writers, even in strictly 

 geographical treatises, are by no means careful to preserve the cor- 

 rect geographical order in their lists of cities^. It is, besides, open 

 to question whether the writer of the book knew much about 

 the relative positions of the northern coast cities; he might easily 

 have made the mistake through ignorance. Even if the original 

 order of towns in this verse was the correct one, the later faulty 

 writing of the name of Dor as 2ovp and of 'Akko as 'Oxetva would 

 have caused confusion ; perhaj^s this led to the transposition of Dor 

 to its present position after Tyre\ As far as the form Soup is con- 

 cerned, it would appear that in some cursive manuscript 8 was 

 written so much like a that Swp was read as o-wp. Inasmuch as the 



^ Gesch. des V. Israels, III, 2, p. 544. 



^ Cp. the varying order of cities in Josh. 17: 11 and Judg. 1:27 above ; see 

 also Bibl. Geog. Arab. VII, p. 327, line 7 (Jubail, Saida, Beirut) ; p. 329, 2 flf. 

 (Caesarea, Jamnia, Jaffa): 2R53, No. 4, lines 55-58 (discussed below), gives 

 the order : Samaria, Damascus, Dor, Megiddo. 



3 It is not at all impossible that the ti-ansposition took place under the 

 impression that ^ovp was actually a doublet to Ti'ow. 



