Stephanus Byzantinus _s.v._ Ἰόνιον, where it is also said that Gaza was termed Ionê. According to Kastôr the thalassocratia or ‘sea-rule’ of Minôs lasted until B.C. 1180, when it passed into the hands of the Lydians. By the latter may be meant the expedition sent to the south of Palestine by the Lydian king Akiamos. Footnote 304: Sayce, _Races of the Old Testament_, pp. 126, 127, and pl. i. Footnote 305: Deut. ii. 23. Avim is merely a descriptive title signifying ‘the people of the ruins.’ Footnote 306: See my _Higher Criticism and the Verdict of the Monuments_, pp. 325-327. It is possible that some of the Semitic deities had been adopted by the Philistines before they left Krete, if indeed they came from that island. At all events it has been supposed that certain Canaanitish divinities were adored there, more especially Ashtoreth, under the title of Diktynna. The presence of Semites in the island seems indicated by the name of the river Iardanos or Jordan. Footnote 307: In the age of Deborah, however, it would seem that the seaport of Joppa was still in the possession of the Danites (Judg. v. 17). But cp. Josh. xix. 46. Footnote 308: Winckler and Abel, _Mittheilungen aus den orientalischen Sammlungen_, iii. 143. 37, 43. Anatum or Anat, the son of Sin-abu-su, is also a witness to the sale of some property in a deed dated in the reign of the Babylonian king Samsu-iluna, the son of Khammurabi or Amraphel, and published by Mr. Pinches, _Inscribed Babylonian Tablets in the Collection of Sir H. Peek_, iii. p. 61. Footnote 309: See Judg. i. 27. Beth-shean, the Scythopolis of classical geography, is the modern Beisân. Footnote 310: Twenty is half the indeterminate number forty, and merely denotes that the exact number of years, though unknown, was less than a generation. Footnote 311: Judg. v. 15. Literally the words are: ‘Issachar [is] like Barak.’ The Heb. _kên_ is the Assyrian _kêmi_, ‘like,’ and is used in the same way as _kida_ in modern Egyptian Arabic. It is criticism run wild to assert with Budde, Wellhausen, and others, that Deborah also is described as belonging to Issachar. Footnote 312: Pindar, _Pyth._ iv. 106; _Lactant._ i. 22; _Etym. Mag._ s.v. ἐσσην. Footnote 313: Gen. xxxv. 8, where the name of the terebinth, Allon-Bachuth, ‘the terebinth of weeping,’ is derived from the lamentations over the death of the nurse. A different origin of the name, however, seems to be indicated in Hos. xii. 4. Footnote 314: Rimmon, one of the chief Assyrian gods, was also entitled Barqu, ‘the lightning,’ and it is possible that the name had migrated westward along with that of Rimmon. Noam, whose name enters into that of Abinoam, the father of Barak, seems to have been a Phœnician god, whose consort was Naamah. Footnote 315: