History of Dor. 89 



Hildesheimer' translates TtT '^"IJID of the Jerusalem Talmud as 

 "Devils-Tower"^, explaining it as a nickname for a town called 

 after a worshipper of Astarte. Such a substitution of " devil " for 

 the name of a heathen deity is quite in accord with Jewish usage, 

 and may well be the true way of accounting for I^C^ here^ 



In connecting ^y>^ with *11*Tt (which he reads as "ll"?"!) and 

 making the phrase equivalent to "111 HO^ ' however, Hildesheimer 

 probably errs. All the redactions except the Jerusalem Talmud 

 connect these letters with the foregoing, and their evidence is worth 

 something. It is true that W> ^^^ may be translated "die 

 Klippe, die Hohe"\ But the word should probably be read with 

 the foregoing, "wall of Devils-Tower "\ Because of the corrupt 

 text some copyist seems to have made a mistake here in repeating 

 l'*^^ (or Nl^t^) ; this in turn became l^T\^ by the change of a 

 single letter, 1 to ^ (cp. the confusion in the other three redac- 

 tions). This ^y^ was later probably connected with the word 

 *7"tj|0 , "tower" (which may have had some resemblance to a 

 tooth), and allowed to stand. We find the word KH^^t?^ (also 

 NilO'lt^)' which likewise may be translated "Klippe" (notice its 

 resemblance to K^^C^), used elsewhere in connection with Caesarea. 

 Levy" quotes the phrase pDp"T Kni^t^a ''on the cliff of 

 Caesarea " from Num. r. sect. 18, 236 d\ The explanatory gloss, 

 N*)Dpl N1W1 ("Rock, or Cliff, of Caesarea"), in the second 

 section from Tosiftha quoted above illustrates how a similar gloss 

 N-D^J^I ("Cliff") may have been allowed to sjband in the Jerusalem 

 Talmud. This reference to Dor as one of the border cities of Israel 

 does not mean that the city was itself included within the nation. 

 The territory of the nation extended simply to Dor or its environs. 



1 P. 4 ; cp. G.A.S., in Enc. Bib. I, p. 617, s.v. Caesarea, § 1. 



2 I.e., 1C^", J^TC^. "demon." 



3 Caesarea is called in Midrash Shir ha-Shirim I, 5, a " city of abomina- 

 tion and blasphemy." (Neubauer, p. 96.) 



* Lsvy, IV, 582-3; originally the word means "tooth," then a tooth- 

 shaped rock or " cliff." So also Jastrow, Tal. Diet. II, p. 1603. 



^ Jastrow (II, p. 1603) however accepts Hildesheimer's arrangement and 

 translation. 



«IV, p. 547. 



' Cp. also Levy, IV, p. 522. 



