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Dor
(328 words)
[German Version] The ancient port of Dor (
Dw/'r;
Dū'ru; Δῶρος/
Dṓros; Δῶρα/
Dṓra) is identical with Ḥel-Burğ (1425/2247). Dor is attested from Ramses II on and is mentioned as the dwelling place of the
Tkr, a group of sea-peoples, in the travel report of Wenamun (1075). From Solomon on, it was claimed to be within Israelite territory (1 Kgs 4:11). The book of Joshua has another opinion (Josh 11:2, etc.). A seal (8th cent.) mentions a …
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Religion Past and Present
Philistines
(1,866 words)
[German Version]
I. Old Testament Philistines (Heb. פְּלִשְׁתִים/
pelištîm; LXX ϕυλιστιείμ/
phylistieím [12 occurrences] and ἀλλόϕυλος/
allóphylos [269 occurrences]; Egyp.
pl/rst) are represented in the Bible as living in the “Land of the Philistines” (Gen 21:32; Exod 13:17; 1 Sam 30:16 etc.); for Jewish narrators most specifically the area extending from Ashdod through Gath and Ekron to the boundary of Judea itself (1 Sam 5:1–12; 6:1). Their leaders are a group of five cooperating “princes” (Josh 13:3; Judg 3:3; …
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Religion Past and Present
Vriezen, Theodore Christiaan
(316 words)
[German Version] (Jul 29, 1899, Dinxperlo – Jan 29, 1981, Amersfoort), professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages at Groningen from 1941 to 1956 and at Utrecht for 1956 to 1969 (1965–1966 in Beirut). For decades Vriezen was the preeminent Old Testament scholar of the Netherlands; he received an honorary doctorate from Bern in 1964. As a pastor, along with O. Eißfeldt, Aage Betzen, W. Eichrodt, and others he took part in the 1924 training course of the Deutsches Evangelisches Institut für Alt…
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Religion Past and Present