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  • From: Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk>
  • To: 'Dave Washburn' <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • Cc: "'b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu'" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Locating Bethel
  • Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 08:53:35 +0200


Using the Erich Klostermann edition, Eusebius. Das Onomastikon der
biblischen Ortsnamen, 1904, reprint (my copy), Olms Hildesheim, 1966.

The references are-according to that edition: Eusebius: Bethel: 40, 20,
Beeroth: 48, 9
Hieronymus: Bethel: 41, 17 , Beeroth: 49, 8

NPL

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Washburn [SMTP:dwashbur AT nyx.net]
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 02:30
To: Biblical Hebrew
Subject: Re: Locating Bethel

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
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"Éist le glór Dé."

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