42 George Dahl, 



structus here'. The reading of the Greek : Kara 2i8wm rr^v fieydXrjv, 

 is certainly to be rejected. 2t8<uva arose from a misreading of 

 pfiVD as pnVD . It would seem that the Greek translator read 

 here nn!! tlT) ])'l)if2 instead of IH^ p^DVD \ Quite possibly he 

 was influenced by H^^ p^^V ^^ verse 8. The Greek has dTrcVavrt 

 for the hardly possible ^y) and points, therefore, to "Ijl^ as the 

 original reading'. D^P is read by the Greek with the following 

 verse and mistranslated, koI cis tovs TrapaAtbvs, kt\. ; the Greek trans- 

 lates D"'p of verse 3 in exactly the same way; whereas 0^0 should 

 be rendered "on the West", or "westward"*. 



The reference in verse 2 is throughout to regions or districts, 

 ^n refers to the mountainous territories in northern Samaria and 

 Galilee*; by JlllJID 1!\1\ HD*!^ is probably meant the Jordan val- 

 ley near the Sea of Galilee and perhaps also the plain to the west 

 of the sea"; il^^t^* refers to the low hills between the Central Range 

 and the coast plain\ In like manner the term "111 illSJ must sig- 

 nify the hilly district east of Dor including the ridge extending 

 from Carmel to Caesarea". 



Verse 2 seems to be a later insertion in the text, dating from the 

 earlier part of the Persian Period^ So far as the event it purports 

 to record is concerned, it has very little historical value. It does, 

 however, reflect the conviction of a later supplementer that the 

 region Xaphath Dor was important in earlier times. Doubtless he 

 based this conclusion upon the prominence of the district and of the 

 city of Dor in his own time. Not even are names assigned to the 

 shadowy kings of these vaguely defined districts. We can hardly 



^ Bennett, S.B.O.T.; Holzinger, K.H.A.T.; Steuernagel. 



2 Margolis in A.J.S.L., XXVIII (1911), p. 13. 



2 Steuernagel, et al. 



■* The translator's knowledge of Hebrew is perhaps defective (A.J.S.L., 

 XXVIII, p. 13). 



5 Steuernagel, Holzinger. 



« Ibid. 



"^ Not the coast plain itself (as in Steuernagel and Holzinger), G.A.S., Hist. 

 Geog., p. 203; S, R. Driver in Hast., D.B., III, 894. 



8 See the discussion of the name Naphath Dor, pp. 21 ff. 



® Bennett assigns it to D^ ; Carpenter and Battersby to R'', an expansion 

 of vv. 1, 4-9 (J); Steuernagel to D^ ; Holzinger to "JE«? D? junger?" 

 Verse 1 is much older. 



