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Philo, On Abraham 133, On the Life of Moses 1.163, On the Virtues 221 and Every Good Man is Free 75. On the use of Palestine by Philo and Josephus, see Stern, Greek and Latin Authors, p. 349.

Statius, Silvae 2.1.161; 3.2.105; 5.1.213. See Stern, Greek and Latin Authors, pp. 515–520. For Dio Chrysostom, quoted by Synesius, see H. Lamar Crosby, Dio Chrysostom (Cambridge, MA: Loeb Classical Library, 1951), vol. 5, pp. 378–379; also Stern, Greek and Latin Authors, pp. 538–540.

Ovid, Art of Love 1.416. See Stern, Greek and Latin Authors, pp. 348–349; Louis H. Feldman, “Some Observations on the Name of Palestine,” Hebrew Union College Annual 61 (1990), pp. 13–14.

Polemo of Ilium, Greek History, quoted by Eusebius in Evangelical Preparation 10.10.15; see Stern, Greek and Latin Authors, pp. 102–103.

Menachem Stern, Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism, vol. 1, From Herodotus to Plutarch (Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1974), pp. 6–7 and note 2. Although Aristotle doesn’t actually name the lake, his comment that neither man nor beast could sink in its waters, which are bitter and salty and do not support fish, leaves no doubt that he is referring to the Dead Sea.

Herodotus, Histories 2.104.

Joshua 13:2–3; see Trude Dothan, The Philistines and Their Material Culture (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press; Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1982), pp. 16–18.

I am grateful to Hanan Eshel, Kenneth Atkinson, Tryggve Mettinger and Ziony Zevit for reading this manuscript and making important comments and corrections. I also thank Rina Feldman-Avner for her help in all stages of preparation of this article.

See Joseph Patrich, The Formation of Nabatean Art (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1990) and Avner, cited in note 2.