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Judges 4 locates Heber near a tree in Zaanannim. The Greek Septuagint translation calls it the oak of the covetous ones, possibly confusing the proper name of the location as a description of it.
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Judges 4:11
Hebrew Bible
10 Barak summoned men from Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh, and 10,000 men followed him; Deborah went up with him as well. 11 Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, Moses’ father-in-law. He lived near the great tree in Zaanannim near Kedesh. 12 When Sisera heard that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,
Date: 600–501 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
LXX Judges 4:11
Septuagint
10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali out of Kedesh, and there went up at his feet ten thousand men, and Deborah went up with him. 11 And Heber the Kenite had removed from Caina, from the sons of Jobab the father-in-law of Moses, and pitched his tent by the oak of the covetous ones, which is near Kedesh. 12 And it was told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
Date: 200–101 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... In verse 11, the Hebrew story introduces us to Heber and explains why he is living near the scene of the battle. Both the Judges A and B text also have this verse. The Judges B text preserves its antecedent role in characterizing Jael by transliterating the name consistently here and in verse 17 ... The Judges A text transliterates in verse 17 but in verse 11 translates with οι πλησιον. Thus, the intrusion of the verse in Judges A makes considerably less sense to the reader even in retrospect and makes the verse's connection to Jael more difficult ..."
John A. Beck, Translators as Storytellers: A Study in Septuagint Translation Technique, StBibLit 25 (New York: Peter Lang, 2000), 85.
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