Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Niels Peter Lemche <npl AT teol.ku.dk>]

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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