Zaanannim

In Jos 19" 'the terebinth of Bo<fn'ftiiaim ' (D-jys;i jH'jn) is mentioned in defining the boundaries of Naphtali, while in J" 4" ' the terebinth of Bfi?a'anannini ' (d'jjj^sj k ; IIV gives in both passages 'the oak (m. 'terebinth ) in Zaanannim') is the site of the encampment of Heber the Kenite and the scene of Sisera s murder by Jael. There can be little doubt that 3 is not the preposition but part of the name (a conclusion M'hich is strongly supported by the absence of the art.

from yh»), and tnat the form oij^sj deserves the preference (see Dillm. Jos. ad loc). The LXX has in Jos 19^ B 'Beaeiudv, A Beati'a^'i/i, Luc. Sceva- ffl/i; in Jg4" it translates, B iv\eov(KToivTuiv[Vi^ 'be covetous'], A ivairavoiiivuf [confusing with D'::n»]. The site of Bc?a'ftnaim is quite uncertain. It is difficult, not to say impossible, to reconcile some of the other data in Jg 4 with the statement in V." that it was 'by Kedesh,' if by the latter is meant Kkdesh -NAPHTALI.

Equally unsuitable is the Kedesh of Issacliar (?.(46m Kadeis) between Taauach and Megiddo. Conder {Tent, Work, ii. 1321, favoured by G. A. Smith (HGHL 395), identifies BC^a'Snaim with Khirbct Bestilm, E. of Tabor, and takes Kedesh to be Radish, a ruin on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, S. of Tiberias. Chej'ne (Encyc. Bibl. i.

571), somewhat arbitrarily, emends D'jysa to D':ienp, supposing the reference to be to a ^Cidshon or ],<a<lshon in Issachar, whose inhabitants would be called I^idslionim. Upon this theory the words ib'N B-p"nK of Jg 4'' must of course be viewed as a gloss. (See, further, Moore, Judges, pp. 121, 125 f. ; G. A. Smith, I.e. ; Neubauer, G(og. du Talm. 22.->). On the dilliculties of the narrative of Jg 4 see artt. Barak, Dkboraii, Si.sera. J. A. Sklbie.