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For Kadytis cf. ii. 159 n.

The Palestine Syrians are here distinguished by H. from the Phoenicians (so too in ii. 104); their lands also are distinguished in i. 105 (probably), iii. 91. 1, and iv. 39. 2; in ii. 106. 1 he applies the term to include the coast north of Mount Carmel. But the most important reference is vii. 89, where H. distinguishes the ‘Syrians in Palestine’ from the Phoenicians, and then goes on (§ 2) to use ‘Palestine’ of all the coast land, including Phoenicia, ‘as far as Egypt’. He never uses it of Phoenicia alone. Here he means ‘Philistines’, who were still powerful in his time (Zech. ix. 5); it is true that he says they were circumcised (ii. 104. 3), but he says (ib.) the same of Phoenicians. Either the neighbouring tribes had begun to copy the Jews in this rite, or H. confuses the Jews and the coast peoples. He cannot have meant by the ‘Palestine Syrians’ ‘the Jews’ only, for they were at this time very unimportant.

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