Biblical Hebrew Forum

["K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Yaakov Stein <yaakov_s AT rad.com> wrote:

>
> I have a related idea. Why not look at Joshua 11:16 which is parallel to
> Judges 3:3 ?
>
> There instead of "Baal-Hermon"  we have "Baal-Gad in the valley of Lebanon
> which is under mount Hermon".
>
> So perhaps "Baal-Hermon" is the result of a lacuna in the text of Judges ?
>
> Yaakov (J) Stein


Or more likely that the place was known by more than one name? In 1
Chronicles it is listed as a place separate from Mount Hermon, or is it just
one more of many place names whose name was remembered, but the place
forgotten?

Karl W. Randolph.