86 George Dahl, 



Caesarea to avenge the slaughter of their countrymen there^ had 

 rendered it unsafe ; and that Dor, lying farther to the north, with 

 pronounced anti-Jewish proclivities'* and not so easily accessible 

 from Jewish territory, furnished temporarily safer shelter^ Dor 

 is here once more reckoned as part of Phoenicia*. 



JOSEPHUS IN STEPHAN OF BYZANTIUM. 



After referring to Hecataeus' as his authority for the statement 

 that Dor was anciently called Awpos but more recently called Awpa, 

 Stephan of Byzantium^ proceeds to cite Josephus, who illustrates 

 both usages : 



Kox ovTOis *lw<Trpro<s avrrjv KoXeX iv £ r^s 'lovSaiKrjs iaropCci^; " aTro fitv 

 *Io/3&£vov /u.€;(pt Acipcov TToAcws." KOX ttoXlv " 'A^wto) koX Aw/aois opL^ofievoiy 

 Kol iv s " ctvat Ti yvvcuov iv ttoAci Awpo)." koL ttoXlv " ore rjVi.yKtv €ts r^v 

 Awpov." 



"And thus does Josephus refer to it in Book 5 of his Jewish 

 History: 'From the Jordan to the city Dora.' And again: 

 'Bounded by Azotus and Dora.' And in Book 6: 'That there 

 was a certain (little) woman in the city Doros.' And again: 

 ' When he brought into Doros.' " 



The first quotation given by Stephan above is from Ant. V, 

 1 : 22, where Josephus relates that the allotment of the half-tribe 

 of Manasseh extended from the Jordan to the city Dor, with its 

 breadth at Bethshan (Scythopolis). It has been shown above^ that 

 the whole matter of the original territories of the various tribes is 

 so confused in the various Biblical accounts that nothing can be 

 definitely determined concerning it. Probably the borders were 

 not fixed in early times; certainly not at the time when the tribes 

 were gradually taking possession of the land. Josephus' statement 

 here is, consequently, of little value. 



The second. quotation above is likewise from Ant. V, 1: 22, and 

 describes the limits of the territory of the Danites. This account 



^ J?. J. II, 18:1,2. 

 « See Ant. XIX, 6 :3, 4 above. 



3 It is always possible that Josephus' details are not accurate, although he 

 ought to be well-informed in the present instance. 

 ^ See Contra Ap. II, 9 above. 

 5 See p. 63. 



« Ed. Meineke, 1849, p. 254. 

 ' See p. 52. 



