Where should one look for Gideon's ophra?

Biblica

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 478-493

  Niesiolowski Spanò, Lukasz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 61249225054     PISSN: 00060887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. J. SIMONS, The Geographical and Topographical Texts of the Old Testament (Leiden 1959) 291, § 561.
2. 21960) 102.
3. ABEL, Géographie, II, 17, 60, 92.
4. Y. AHARONI, The Land of the Bible, A Historical Geography (London 1967) 240-242;
5. Z, KALLAI, Historical Geography of the Bible (Jerusalem -Leiden 1986) 422-423;
6. J.M. HAMILTON, "Ophra", Anchor Bible Dictionary (= ABB) (ed, D.N. FREEDMAN; Doubleday 1992) V, 27-28.
7. KALLAI, Historical Geography, 422-423.
8. N. NA'AMAN, "Pirathon and Ophrah", BN 50 (1989) 11-16.
9. E.A. KNAUF, "Eglon and Ophrah: Two Toponymic Notes on the Book of Judges", JSOT 51 (1991) 25-44, esp. 34-39.
10. H. DONNER, Geschichte des Volkes Israel und seiner Nachbarn in Grundzügen (GAT 4) (Göttingen 1984) I, 171; see ID., "Ophra in Manasse. Der Heimatort des Richters Gideon und des Königs Abimelech", Die Hebräische Bibel und ihre zweifache Nachgeschichte. Festschrift für Rolf Rendtorff zum 65. Geburtstag (eds. E. BLUM et al.) (Neukirehen-Vluyn 1990) 193-206, with a list of previous hypotheses.
11. Cf. W. BLUEDORN, Yahweh Versus Baalism. A Theological Reading of the Gideon-Abimelech Narrative (JSOTSS 329) (Sheffield 2001) 72-73.
12. Such an idea had been presented by G. VON RAD, Genesis. A Commentary (London 1956).
13. L. KOEHLER - W. BAUMGARTNER, The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (Leiden - New York - Köln 1994) II, 861 -862;
14. U. CASSUTO, A Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Jerusalem 1989) I, 75, pointed to the equivalence of the nouns 'pr and 'pr in Genesis 3,19 and Ezek 28,18 respectively.
15. D.R. HILLERS, "Micah, Book of", ABD IV, 807-810.
16. F.I. ANDERSEN - D.N. FREEDMAN, Micah (AB 24E; New York 2000) 208-209;
17. L.M. LUKER, "Beth-Le-Aphrah (place)", ABD I, 689.
18. W. VON SODEN, "Zu einigen Ortsbenennungen bei Amos und Mich", ZAH 3 (1990) 214-220, esp. 217.
19. cf. E. Tov, The Greek and Hebrew Bible. Collected Essays on the Septuagint (Leiden - Boston - Köln 1999) 509;
20. J.W. WEVERS, Notes on the Greek Text of Genesis (Atlanta 1993) 583-584, 811.
21. see Y. AHARONI, "Excavation at Ramat Rahel", BA 24, 4 (1961) 98-118;
22. ID., "The Citadel of Ramat Rahel", Archaeology 18, 1 (1965) 15-25;
23. AHARONI, Excavations at Ramat Rahel, 119;
24. N. NA'AMAN, "An Assyrian Residence at Ramat Rahel?", Tel Aviv 28 (2001) 260-280.
25. AHARONI, The Citadel, 16.
26. cf. R.W. YOUNKER, "Beth-Haccerem", ABD I, 686-687.
27. Cf. The term in Deut 22,9;
28. G. GARBINI, "Sul nome antico di Ramat Rahel", RSO 16 (1961) 199-205;
29. The Onomasticon by Eusebius of Caesarea (ed. J.E. TAYLOR) (Jerusalem 2003) 39.
30. Cf. Eusebius: Das Onomastikon der biblischen Ortsnamen (ed. E. KLOSTERMANN) (Leipzig 1904).
31. Cf. S.E. MCGARRY, "Beth Gader", ABD I, 686.
32. rd century BCE - Demetrius (fr. 2, 10).
33. For editions see F. JACOBY, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (Berlin 1923) 722;
34. A.-M. DENIS, Fragmenta Pseudepigraphorum quae supersunt graeca (Leiden 1970);