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The Greek reads: 



(29) KoX €o}<; bpLiiiv vttuv Mavacrcrr;, Bai^oraav Kat at KOi^iavTrj^, @aXfxr} kol 

 at KOifJudL avTTJ^ ' KOL BaAaS Kat at K(i)fJuiL avTr]<;, MaycSSet Kai at Kdyuai avrrj^, 

 Aw/3 Kat at KWfJULL avTrj<; • iv ravrrj KaTWKrjcrav ol viol l<jiar]<f> vlov laparjX. 



(29) "And upon the borders of the children of Manasseh, 

 Bethshean and its dependencies, Taanach and its dependencies, 

 Megiddo and its dependencies. Dor and its dependencies. In these 

 dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel." 



Comments on the Greek: For ©aXfXYj, A reads 0aavax- A has 

 MayeSSw. For vlov A* reads vtot. For BaAaS A reads BoAaaS, which 

 evidently corresponds to BaAaa^t of Judg. 1 :27 (A), and like it is a 

 corrupt rendering of Dp'^D*. "^fhe initial iota of 'leySAaa/x was per- 

 haps dropped through the influence of the final iota of Kat preced- 

 ing the name. (But cp. DJ^*?? ^^ ^ Chron. 6:55). The form 

 BaAoaS (with 8) may be due to the common confusion in Greek 

 uncial writing of A and M. The fact that the name occurs in some 

 of the Greek texts', though lacking in the Hebrew, is probably to 

 be accounted for by the tendency of the Greek translators (or 

 editors) to use their own judgment in revising and interpreting the 

 text before them (Cp. Awp in the Greek of Judg. 1 : 31, and r/ ianv 

 Skv^wv TToAt? of Judg. 1:27). Here Jibleam seems to have been 

 introduced from the parallel passages in Josh. 17:11 and Judg. 

 1 : 27, more probably the latter\ 



As has been suggested above', the peculiar phrase H?^!! il^^W 

 in Josh. 17:11 was in all probability originally a marginal gloss, 

 n£3-D nnC^'?t^, that later found its way into the text, meant to 

 point out that the third toxcn in the list {T\TW^^f — " third of it") 

 was to be read with prefixed r)£3J ; i. e., ^^'^ DfiJ • This was 



i - T - T 



evidently a variant reading, whether the original and correct one 



^ Lagarde's Edition omits Balad but follows the order of B. Instead of 

 'Mavaoaf], it reads Mww^f. Holmes-Parsons omits BaTiaaS in the text (based 

 on KE'l>) but records it as appearing in several texts. 



^ The order of towns (except Dor) follows that of Judg. 1 : 27, and the form 

 BaP.aaJ is, as explained above, equivalent to Balaafi of that verse. 



3 Pages 26 f. 



Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. XX. 4 1915. 



