DOR IN THE TALMUD. 



Once only is Dor mentioned in the Talmud. It occurs in a list 

 of frontiers of Israel, dating probably from the time of John Hyr- 

 canus (135-105 B. C.) and Alexander Jannaeus (104-78 B. C,)\ 

 Neubauer'' gives the various readings of the name (which occurs 

 between Caesarea and Akko) as follows : 



(a) Tal de Jer., Schebiith VI: 1 : TTn . 



(b) Tosiftha, Schebiith, Ch. 3: in^ . 



(c) Siphre, sect. Ekeb, ^ la fin: ^)1 . 



(d) Yalkout, sect. Ekeb, § 674: ^H . 



The variations in the form of the name indicate that the texts here 

 havfe become quite corrupt. 



In the Jerusalem Talmud, t<^*C^1 precedes 1T\1 . This Hilde- 

 sheimer" reads with Dor and translates **die Klippe, die Hohe von 

 Dor." Neubauer*, on the contrary, maintains that NJ^JJ^ should be 

 connected, as in the other redactions, with the preceding "ItS^ or 

 ntr and that the word should be read NrtTltT (or K^C^'IS:'). In 

 order that we may have the various readings of the preceding town 

 (i. e., Caesarea) before us, I again quote from Neubauer's table 

 opposite p. 11, No. 2: 



(a) Tal. de Jer., Schebiith, VI: 1: i^rtTI TtT ^1}D Hf^^H . 



(b) Tos., Schebiith,Ch. 3 : (N-)Dp1 XniC^I) HJW^IJT '^IJID "lOim . 



(c) Siphre, sect. Ekeb., a la fin: ^t^^'l^ ")D1D HDin . 



(d) Yalkout, sect. Ekeb., § 674: ftntT bl^D ilDIH. 



Here, too, there is evidently such great confusion in the readings, 

 that absolute certainty as to the original text can hardly be reached. 

 Neubauer connects his NTt^'^C^ with the old name of Caesarea, 

 SrpaTwvos irvpyos. This in turn he derives (with Renan) from the 

 Phoenician HID^i^ 1^^ •' But NJ^t^^ltJ^ seems very unlike both 

 the Phoenician and its derived Greek form. We cannot, therefore, 

 accept his explanation as the correct one. 



' Hildesheimer, Beitrdge z. Geog. Pal., p. 10. 



^ La Geographie du Talmud, No. 3 on table opp. p. 11. 



3 Beitrdge, p. 10. 



^ La Geographie, pp. 11, 15. 



^ Buhl (Geog., p. 211) finds in the Greek name an original Astartyaton. 



