24 George Dahl, 



D^P as Kttt CIS ry]v TzapaXiav Aotp oltto Sva-fiiov. Similarly he translates 

 ^'\1 n^p "111 of Josh. 12:23, (Awp) t^s TvapaXias; and ni^^l?^ 

 n^^rt of Josh. 17:11 is interpreted, kol at rpet? TrapaXiai. Where 

 did Symmachus get his rj -n-apaXta ? In a comparison of the Hebrew 

 and old Greek texts of Josh. 11:2, 3 a possible answer is to be 

 found\ The D*'P ("on the West") of these verses is inexactly 

 rendered in the Greek both times as els tovs vapaXtovs. This phrase 

 in verse 2 immediately follows Nac^e^Swp (B, <f}€vaeS8(op) . It may be 

 that Symmachns' els rrjv irapaXUav immediately preceding Dor was 

 suggested to him by the almost equivalent eU rovs irapaXCovs imme- 

 diately following Dor in the old Greek. That he may have been 

 influenced by the Greek in this manner is shown to be quite possi- 

 ble by his procedure in verse 3. Here he follows the example of 

 the Greek in disregarding the 1 of the '"JOKHI and reads: koX airo 

 Sv(rfxu>v Tov *Ap.oppalov. It seems quite possible, therefore, that we 

 owe Symmachus' mistranslation of ri£3^ as rj -n-apaXia to the inaccu- 

 rate rendering of D^D by the Greek. It is also possible that Sym- 

 machus was influenced in his rendering by the fact that the Dor 

 known in his day was actually situated iv rrj TrapaXLa. In any case he 

 is apparently the first to propound the theory that the name means 

 irapaXux, and Stands almost alone in his interpretation. The proba- 

 bility remains that the name Jl^J does not refer to the coast town, 

 but to the strategically far more important heights above the 

 town. With this hypothesis the form of the name agrees. 



In all the versions and translations the name ilQ^ seems to have 

 proved a stumbling-block. The Vulgate, with a different render- 

 ing each time the name occurs, is completely at a loss. In Josh. 

 11:2 it reads "in regionihus Dor iuxta mare "^ ; in Josh. 12 : 23, " et 

 provinciae Dor"; in Josh. 17:11, "et tertia pars urhis Napheth^'' \ 

 and in 1 Kings 4:11, "omnis Nephat J)or''\ The Targum^ evi- 

 dently comes from the same source as Jerome's Vulgate renderings 

 "regionibus" and "provinciae", for it represents JlQ^ in Josh. 

 11:2; 12:23 and 1 Kings 4:11 by the construct plural ^5*73 



* For the Hebrew and Greek texts see the discussion of the passage on pp. 

 41 ff. 



2 Like the Greek the Latin here fails to understand the phrase Q^;^ . 



3 Walton's Polyglot. 



