Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

John,
> Walter wrote:
>
> >
> > "Edward Robinson (1867:452-53) was the first modern scholar to propose 
> > that
> > Beeroth be identified with el-Bireh...He argued that this site not only 
> > has
> > toponymic support but fits Eusebius' description : "el-Bireh can be seen 
> > on
> > the right at about 7 miles distance from Jerusalem as one travels to 
> > Emmaus
> > via el-Jib."
>
> This is, of course, Robinson being quoted, not Eusebius.
> (Eusebius would not make reference to any "el-Bireh.")  What
> Eusebius said is that Beeroth was at the seventh mile marker
> from Jerusalem on the road to Nicapolis, which is sufficient
> to exclude el-Bireh (which is on the road to
> Neapolis/Nablus).  Robinson evidently wanted to make
> Eusebius say that when one is at said location, one could
> see Beeroth off in the distance, several miles away - but
> that is not what Eusebius said.  Where Eusebius put Beeroth
> makes sense based on the fact that it was part of the
> Gibeonite coalition - it's quite a ways from el-Bireh.

What's the reference in Eusebius?


Dave Washburn
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