5 ff.). "Keftiu is the old Eg. name of Caphtor (Crete), Keptar a Ptolemaic doublet of it, taken over when the original meaning of Keftiu had been forgotten, and the name had been erroneously applied to Phœnicia" (Hall, Man, Nov. 1903, No. 92, p. 162 ff.). In OLz., M. questions the originality of the name in this passage: so also Je. ATLO2, 275.[1]
15-19. The Canaanites.—The peoples assigned to the
Canaanitish group are (1) the Phœnicians ((
Hebrew characters)), (2) the Ḥittites
((Hebrew characters)), and (3) a number of petty communities perhaps summed
up in the phrase (Hebrew characters) in 18b. It is surprising to
find the great northern nation of the Ḥittites classed as a
subdivision of the Canaanites. The writer may be supposed
to have in view offshoots of that empire, which survived, as
small enclaves in Palestine proper; but that explanation
does not account for the marked prominence given to Ḥeth
over the little Canaanite kingships. On the other hand,
one hesitates to adopt Gu.'s theory that (Hebrew characters) is here used in a
wide geographical sense as embracing the main seats of the
Ḥittite empire (p. 187). There is evidence, however, of a
strong settlement of Ḥittites near Ḥermon (see below), and
it is conceivable that these were classed as Canaanites and
so inserted here.
Critically, the vv. are difficult. We. (Comp.2 15) and others remove
16-18a as a gloss: because (a) the boundaries laid down in 19 are exceeded
in 17. 18a, and (b) the mention of a subsequent dispersion of Canaanites
(18b) has no meaning after 16-18a. That is perhaps the most reasonable
view to take; but even so 18b does not read quite naturally after 15; and
what could have induced a glossator to insert four of the most northerly
Phœnician cities, passing by those best known to the Hebrews? Is it
15. (Hebrew characters)] cf. 2221 (J).—18. (Hebrew characters)] adv. of time, as 185 2455 3021 etc. =
(Hebrew characters): see BDB, 29 f.—(Hebrew characters)] Niph. fr. [root] (Hebrew characters); see on 919: cf. 114. 8. 9.—(Hebrew characters)]]
can hardly, even if the clause be a gloss, denote the Phœn.
colonies on the Mediterranean (Brown, EB, ii. 1698 f.).—19. (Hebrew characters)] 'as
one comes' (see G-K. § 144 h) might be taken as 'in the direction of'
(so Di. Dri. al.); but there does not appear to be any clear case in
which the expression differs from (Hebrew characters) = 'as far as' (cf. 1030 1310 2518
[all J], 1 Sa. 157 with Ju. 64 1133, 1 Sa. 1752, 2 Sa. 525, 1 Ki. 1846).—(Hebrew characters)]
G (Greek characters).
- ↑ V.13f. present so many peculiar features—the regular use of the pl., the great preponderance of quadriliteral names, all vocalised alike—that we can hardly help suspecting that they are a secondary addition to the Table, written from specially intimate acquaintance with the (later?) Egyptian geography.
