Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 edition. Excerpt: ...the classical Chatramis, and, still more clearly, the scriptural Hadoram, in the town of Hadrama: while, proceeding still in a southern direction, the district in which Hadrama is seated retains further traces, both of the classical, and of the patriarchal name, in the Dacharaemoizae of Ptolemy, and the Darkaramatah of Abulfeda; a people and district clearly identified, by the geographical position, with Ha drama; and a similarity of nomenclature easily reconducting us to the primitive scriptural denomination, ... Dacharaemoizae, Darkaramatah, Chatramis, Hadrama, leading us back, through ordinary Arabic inflections, to Hadoram. From Hadrama, traversing the inland border of Oman, to the westward of its great Cushite settlements, and passing, almost in a continuous line, through the Joktanite colonies of Vicus Jerachaeorum, and the Kottabani, the name of Hadoram reappears, apparently, in the Dora and Darrae of Pliny, or the modern town and tribe of Dahra. At this last point, on the south-eastern angle of the peninsula, commences that happy conjectural verification of Bochart, already alluded to, the proof of which, it is hoped, may now be completed. This great scholar discovered the This contraction of Hadoram can be well illustrated from Professor Robinson's Palestine, where we meet a similar restoration of a similar name: " Dura.... There is little reason to doubt its being the Adoraim of the Old Testament, enumerated along with Hebron and Maresha, as one of the cities fortified by Rehoboam. Under the name Adora it is mentioned in the Apocrypha, and also often by Josephus; who usually connects the two places, Adora and Maressa, as cities of the later lduinea. After Josephus, there seems to be no mention of the place, cither by...
