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Half of them practically useless. Copy-and-paste job. Arminden ( talk) 11:44, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Josephus uses the Hellenised name "Gadara" for
Gezer in Judaea. That is quite certainly also the city we're dealing with here: Strabo writes in
Geographica
It appears from the wording, as it appears in this translation, that Antiochus is from Ascalon, while the others (Philodemus, Meleager, Menippus, and Theodorus) are from "Gadaris".
Which "Gadaris"? The geographical context is Strabo's itinerary down the
Mediterranean coast between:
Acê,
Mt. Carmel,
Sycaminopolis, Bucolopolis,
Crocodeilopolis, the
Tower of Strato,
Iopê (with nearby
Jerusalem and
Iamneia), Gadaris,
Azotus,
Ascalon, and far to the west
Mt. Casius and
Pelusium. One can easily presume from the context that Strabo's "Gadaris" is the Hellenised
Gezer, near the coast, and by no means
Gadara (later part of the
Decapolis) or Gadara of the
Peraea, both beyond the
Judaean Mountains, the
Jordan Valley, and up the hill country of
Transjordan.
Also, note that Strabo writes of Gadaris "which the Judaeans appropriated to themselves"; in Strabo's time, Gadara/Gezer was firmly in
Herod's hands, while Gadara/
Umm Qais was part of the autonomous
Decapolis.
Therefore, I changed the link to
Gezer.
Arminden (
talk) 12:38, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
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We have following "sources":
Half of them practically useless. Copy-and-paste job. Arminden ( talk) 11:44, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Josephus uses the Hellenised name "Gadara" for
Gezer in Judaea. That is quite certainly also the city we're dealing with here: Strabo writes in
Geographica
It appears from the wording, as it appears in this translation, that Antiochus is from Ascalon, while the others (Philodemus, Meleager, Menippus, and Theodorus) are from "Gadaris".
Which "Gadaris"? The geographical context is Strabo's itinerary down the
Mediterranean coast between:
Acê,
Mt. Carmel,
Sycaminopolis, Bucolopolis,
Crocodeilopolis, the
Tower of Strato,
Iopê (with nearby
Jerusalem and
Iamneia), Gadaris,
Azotus,
Ascalon, and far to the west
Mt. Casius and
Pelusium. One can easily presume from the context that Strabo's "Gadaris" is the Hellenised
Gezer, near the coast, and by no means
Gadara (later part of the
Decapolis) or Gadara of the
Peraea, both beyond the
Judaean Mountains, the
Jordan Valley, and up the hill country of
Transjordan.
Also, note that Strabo writes of Gadaris "which the Judaeans appropriated to themselves"; in Strabo's time, Gadara/Gezer was firmly in
Herod's hands, while Gadara/
Umm Qais was part of the autonomous
Decapolis.
Therefore, I changed the link to
Gezer.
Arminden (
talk) 12:38, 3 June 2020 (UTC)