Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Bill Rea <bill.rea AT canterbury.ac.nz>]

Yigal wrote:-

> I really don't understand your position here; why, in the middle of a list
> that includes dozens of towns, do you insist that just "Carmel" is a region
> and not a town? Forget the name's supposed etymology - what in the list
> makes you think that it is any different from any other item on the list?
> Besides which, as I wrote, there IS an ancient site in the appropriate area
> which preserves the name to this day.

I've looked at this passage Josh 20:55-57 and I find it impossible to read
the text any other way. There are ten names in the three verses which are
summarized as ten cities. So I'm with Yigal on this one, the Carmel in this
list is intended by the author to be a name of a city.


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