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Following on the previous chapter<\/a>, we noted that rabbinic chronology placed the episode involving Micah and his idol at the beginning of the era of the Judges, before political or religious authority had been established. As a proof text, we cited the oft-repeated verse: \u201cIn those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes\u201d (17:6). The present chapter opens, similarly, with: \u201cIn those days there was no king in Israel; and in those days the Danite tribe sought for themselves an inheritance to dwell in; for up to that day nothing had been allotted to them among the tribes of Israel for an inheritance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It is from the juxtaposition of anarchy (literally, Greek for \u201cno king\u201d) with the Danite quest for inheritance that the sages deduced the chronological sequence. As conveyed by Rashi:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNothing had been allotted to them:\u201d A suitable inheritance for them in the conquered territory, as it is said in Joshua, “The boundary of the Danites exceeded their grasp” (Joshua 19:47). This, too, teaches us that this episode took place at the very beginning of the period of the judges.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reference to Joshua 19:47 takes us back to the time that the initial conquest of the land was still underway. In our comments to that chapter, we cited the commentaries of Rashi and R. Yosef Kara in explanation of both the sequence of events and their justification. Here, we would like to draw attention to a highly speculative observation on the nature of the conquest itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

The text states that the five Danite scouts \u201ccame to Layish, and saw that the people there dwelt in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure\u201d (7). Sidon, which is today a Lebanese port city, was one of the principal cities of the Phoenicians, the seafaring people of yore who brought their produce to the Greek islands and, along with that, elements of their culture and language. The conjunction, here, of Phoenicia, Greeks, and Israelites led some Israeli archaeologists who had explored Tel Dan in northern Israel to speculate that these Danites were not native Israelites but Aegean mercenaries (there is a Greek tribe called Danaoi) hired by the Egyptians to keep order in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":56313,"id":56313,"title":"jud18-Danaoi","filename":"jud18-Danaoi.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud18-Danaoi.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/lawless-times-ii\/jud18-danaoi\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jud18-danaoi","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":56312,"date":"2019-05-28 12:50:02","modified":"2019-05-28 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