To: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] XRM
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:48:15 -0700
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?