History of Dor. 99 



"Dor of Naphath: This is Dor of the sea-coast, adjacent to 

 Caesarea Palestina; which the tribe of Manasseh did not take, 

 because they failed to destroy the Gentiles in it." 



( 0. S. 283 : 3) Na<^e^8wp. 2. ev Trj Trapakta Awpa. avrrj iarlv oltto 

 o-r;/u,€tW Kato-apeta?. {Tos. 11:2.) 



" Napheth-dor : Syramachus (translates) : ' Dor on the sea-coast '. 

 This is nine miles distant from Caesarea." 



Under the name MayStTJA.' Eusebius (and after him Jerome) refers 

 to the town under its shorter name; i. e., taking it as a neuter 

 plural form, he gives the genitive as Aw/oodv. From these references 

 to the town, it would appear that Dor was in existence at the time 

 Eusebius wrote", i.' e. , in the early part of the fourth century. 



Between this time and the translation of the Onomasticon by 

 Jerome' (c. 390)*, however. Dor seems to have fallen temporarily 

 into ruins\ In his free rendering of the passages of Eusebius 

 quoted above, Jerome speaks of Dor as deserted (O.S. 115:22): 

 Dor Nafeth, quod Symmachus transtulit Dor maritima (los. 11 : 2) 

 haec est Dora in nono miliario Caesareae Palaestinae pergentibus 

 Tyrum, 9iu?ic deserta. quae cum cecidisset in sortem tribus Manasse, 

 eam possidere non potuit, quia habitatores in ilia pristini perman- 

 serunt (los. 17:11, 12). {O.S. 142:13): Nefeddor, quod Symma- 

 chus interpretatur maritimam (los. 11 : 2). Dor autem est oppidum 

 iam desertum in nono miliario Caesareae pergentibus Ptolomaidem. 



In his Sanctae Paulae peregrinatio®, Jerome repeats his testimonj^ 

 concerning Dor, as follows: . . . . et per campos Mageddo, Josiae 

 necis conscios intravit terram Philisthiim. Mirata riiinas Dor., 

 u rb quondam potentissimae. Paula was a Roman matron who 

 left Rome in 382 and lived in Bethlehem from 384 until her death 

 in 404. On the basis of the statements of Eusebius and Jerome 



1 Onomastica Sacra, ed. Lagarde (2) 1887, 280:40. 



* See on the Bishops of Dor, pp. 102 ff. 



3 Hieronymi de situ et nominibus locorum hebraicorum liber. 



■* Hauck-Herzog, Encyk., s.v. Hieronymus. 



5 The fact that Dor was the seat of a bishopric at a later period indicates 

 that it was restored. It would appear from the conflicting accounts of Dor 

 in the early Christian centuries that the town passed through alternate 

 periods of prosperity and decline. 



^=epist. 108 ad. Eustochium c.VIIl in opp. ed. Vallarsii et Maffaeii I, 

 696. Also in Tobler et Molinier, Itinera Hierosolymitana et Descriptiones 

 TeiTae Sanctae, I, p. 31. 



