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REUBEN
Dt.115 Nu. 261.9
Reuben
I
Pallucj
I
Eliab
Eliab
I
I
T I I I
Dathan Ablram Nerbue11 Dzthiin Abiram
This (with omission of Netauri') seems to he the
scheme fallowed in Xu. 16.. as we have it2 It appears !
indeed to be complicated by Eliab and Pelerh (for Pallu) '
being treated as unconnrctzd, and Peleth being glven a
son ON [gu.] ; and this has been supposed torepresent 1
the version of J (r.g., Ozf. H~rl.).
I
Peleth
I
On
Nu. 161 [as in MT]
Reuben
I
i
Dxthan
I
Elinb
I
I
Abimm
1 Seen. 6 on previous column.
2 Cp Graf, Dir Grzhichtiichrn +her 89 n.
3 nnd -of*'-thzt ir to rry, otherwire ~\birun.' Read:
Dathan and Ahiram. the sans of Eliah rand .on1. the ron of
Pa~eth-~r~~u, the rdn~r~ of~euben. '
4 Kirtcl (SBOT IHeb.1, 1895) follows Syr. and A?b. in
reading carm,; but that may be an emendition (so Bennngcr,
h*MC d /#c.).
8 Y&hr r late, cp ADlNi but cp rrlro Jehddrn.
6 ~ ~ ~ corrupt h (a* ~ tve~n). l ~ Sm S.u&
7 Compare col. 4o8g n. 6.
REZEPH
addition of KI~~ATHAIM.~ As noticed above (5 2). all
these zix towns are Moabite in Is. 15, Jer. 48.
Tbir list is however, ignored by Y h bir enumeration (Jorh
ms: cp Df. kr3, given by Mo-I of the 'dtics of rcfugc'p?d
(Jorh. P1 j6J=1 Ch. 0,il.A [a3Jl) the 'leuiricrl' [Merrri] clner
'of the tribe of Reuben'(', n.0~): BEZER (city of refuge.
Bozrrh in Jei.48%4), Jan~r
(Jahzah in Jer. 482z), Kao~1lorli1
(perhaps for Kirirrhaim [mm, fm nn.,,] mentioned in Jer.
48.3). rnd MLFHAATH (~er.48'21): but dP confines himreli io
ciric3 aer~gned to hloah in Jer.4~.
In Jorh. 13.5~23 P endeavours to define the territory
of Reuben.
He giver him, belidas the lerirical cities just menrivncd
(Jahaz, Mephath, Kedemorh7Klnnrhcim?,, two cities raid in
N".323*,6 to h?"~ been busit b (hd (Aroar, Dibon), one
arigned ro ad in ~osh.2139, &.isI 1-1 (~erhbon), four
arrign~d elsewhere to Morh (hlEaEa*, BAM~T".~A.AL, BET".
BAAL-aros BaT"-,~s"lnlor"), and the fvllow,ng three:
Z.R~TH.S~:X~R (only here), As~oorn-PISGAM (also Dt.), and
BET".PEOR (the burial-piace of &Iurer, andrcene of the Dr.
discounrs), bllr only one of the caws ss~d in Nu.i237 / lo
have beell built by Rcuhcn (Sibmah).
The contradictions make it imposUhle to construct a
map. In general terms, houev;r, wi~nf is claimed for
Reuben lies within what is claimed for GAD (y.v. 5 3).
SR the map in stride, GVI I, facing p.
Josephur, however, says nothing of On. which may Sreuernagel, Einwanderung. 19 (j.). H. W. H.
in Nu. 161 be due to a marginal variant : the variant
represented by d which reads as usual Abiron for REUEL (~K>T; ~ a ~ o[BADEL]).
y ~ h I. The per-
Abiram (see, however, ON).
sonification of a clan in Edornite and Arabian territory.
The Chronicler has attached to the Reubenite which, according to Winckler (GI lzlo), derived its
genealogy two appendices, one tracing the pedigree of a name from a divine name Re'u (=.x,in ,x,h, Gen.
hron, certain BEERAH to an otherwis un- 16.3 and ix, in i3ln,. Reube13 [tme form of lam,.
In
known Joel4 (I Ch.5,-6). the other Reuben?]). This explanation, however, ir incomplete;
perhaps a variant form of the same list (v. ~f:) : thus both -N,$N and hn, are, judging from numerous
in badly transmitted names, corruptions of
$xm,, (Jerahme'el), and the same origin naturally
suggests itself for kly, (Re'u'el). See, however.
NAMES. 5 47, and cp REUBEN, 5 9. In the gmealogical
system Reuel is both a son of Esau by
Baremath (Gem. 36, xo 13 rl r Ch. lei and the
father of Mo5.3' father-in-law Hobab, Nu. lolg [I],
where .Midianite' should perhaps he ' Kenite'* (Judg.
There ir nothing to show what led the Chronicler to
connect these lists with Reuben (cp Gray, HPN 257f:).
1x6 41r).
is puzzling.
In Ex. 2x8 (aAL coOop), ' Reuel' their father
On the principles of literary analysis of
unless it be the reference to Tiglath-pileer (cp 2 K. domments we araume that Reuel is a harmonistic inser-
1519) and the geographical references in v. gJ
tion, Reuel being here represented by the redactor (R)
With Shemijab. Shimei, Shems, and Zechariah may be com- as father of Zipporah, in order that Hosns [q.u.] and
pare! Shammva ten Zaccur, the name even to the Rcubrnitc TerttRo fowl
spy (Nu. 134),and Elierer ben Zichri, I>aricYs ruler (nw4 .. . mav , both be brotherr-in-law. For
over the Reuben~tel (1 Ch. 27 16). On the nrturrl omission of consirtency'r rake the insertion ought also to hare
a repreren,arire of Reuben from the list of diuidsr. ofwestern been made in v. r6, where originally Hobab (rs name
P=leniine, cp GAD, 1 D rl(l-r sentence). On the lia containing for the father-in-law of Mores) must have stood.'
Adinaa berr Shiza6 (1 Ch. 114%) s~ Grzy, .YPNz%gJ, and cp
2.
D*",", 8 .I (a) ii.
Father of ELIASA~, a Gadire shisf (Nu. 2r+ IPD in
Nu. 114 dso, LS has ~ ywlh where MT bar 5~9, (Dsoe~);
Whether or not there wa! also a theory of a tribe
so ta, in 741,7102o.
Reuben which entered Palestine by way of the Negeb, 3. A Renjsmite (1 Cb98). T. K. C.
14, GsapPhioal the prevailing theory of the present
Hexateuch and related pwages was REUMAE (ap7m; pa~pa [A]. -ma [DL]), the
that Reuben arrived in E. Paleitine concubine of NAHOX (g.u.) : Gcn. 2224.
from abroad. in close connection with (;;id 1o.u.. ,. ." 6 IT). , REVELATION, BOOK OF. See A ~aca~u~a~.
The queitions bearing on the real character.'origin, and
history of the population of E. Palestine %re best con- BEZEPH (VY,: in Ki. pa+aIc IBLI, PA+EC[FJ~~I.
sidered elsewhere (GAD,% 1-41, All that is necessary -ee [A], in Is. pa+~e [RQmgl, -EIC 1.41. -EC IUQ'I).
here is to supplement -.hat is said there (GAD, 5 I=) mentioned by Assyrian envoys (temp. Hezeklah) among
with regard to the geographical derails given, in other placer destroyed by Sennacheriws predecessors.
indiKerence to each other. bv , the various Herareuch (Z K. 191~
Is.371~). It is urually identified with the
,vriter~.
(rndi) Knrappo
melltivned in the cuneiform
Of the nine towns asked for by Gad and Reuben in inscriptions el. Pay. 297. Schr. ,%AT15 327).
Nu. 3a3 we are told in 32j7/ that the men of Reukn and the name har been found in the Alma Tablets
[rrlbuilt the Last five: Hrs~noN, ELEALEH. SLBMAH (R m), in a letter from Tarhund.?rsui Arsapi to Amen-
(called Ssbam in v. 3), N~eo, and BEON, with the hotep 111. of Egypt. With this place we "lay identify
cp
1 Perhap3 the list5 did nor origina11-ily agree. Kirktheim
having in v. 3, 'he place occupied in D. 3 by Sebam, Sibma is
u. ,a simply at the end uf the list.
2 Elsewhere only m Dt. 216, where it may be a orruptian of
Kadclh: see KEDEUOTH.
r HO~~-- (TA~O?. ~ i j d lop) ~ h ~
R~u~~I.
Hommel, however, report3 a S. Arabian personal name is>.;,.
I SoBu.,cdmm.on Judg 1 laJ, whoaisumesthe hamlonuring
of an editor.
8 ID G*". 25,a*a one of the sons of ~rdan is cd~cd R ~ U ~ L
@D has p.co"l*l.