History of Dor. 43 



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 



im tri|;5 T]^p w 



TheKingof Kedesh: One. 



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



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



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



The Greek (B) reads: (21, 22) /Sao-tAc'a Ka8>79, Bao-cAea ZaKax, Bao-i- 

 Xia MapeSo)^ koX ^aa-iXm 'Icko/x. tov Xcp/AeA, (23) fiaaiX&i 'EXBiofx tov ^cv- 

 vcSSw/o, ^aariXea Tcct Trj<s TaXeiXjauiS' 



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 0amx, MaycSSwv, 

 Kc8es and IcKova/x. In verse 23, A offers instead of 'EASw/x the form 

 ABBoyp. Evidently AS is the combination of the final vowel of /Sacrt- 

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

 A also offers in this verse the superior reading, Na<^eS8(u/3. 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 Teei, A reads Fwet/A, and 

 for raXctXatos it has FcAyca (i. e. FcAycA, A in an uncial manuscript 



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

 this passage. 



2 Maunde Thompson, Hdbk. of Ok. and Lat. Paleography, Table opp. p. 

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

 writing of the 6 to the 6. — For a fuller discussion of the word, see the chap- 

 ter on Naphath Dor. 



