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<p> ("portion of the sun".) Joshua's city and burial place, previously [[Timnath]] Serah, "portion of abundance" ( Judges 2:9), the consonants being transposed subsequently, to refer to Joshua's miracle when the sun stood ( Joshua 19:50). In Mount [[Ephraim]] on the N. side of Mount Gaash. (See GAASH.) [[Jerome]] draws our admiration to the fact that "the distributor of possessions chose for himself a mountainous and rugged portion," noble disinterestedness. [[Christian]] tradition identifies Timnath [[Heres]] with Tibneh on the [[Roman]] road from [[Antipatris]] to Jerusalem. But Kefr Haris is the more probable site, nine miles S. of Nablus. The [[Samaritans]] make it the burial place of Joshua and of Caleb; there are two sacred spots E. of it: namely neby Κifl , "prophet of the division by lot," i.e. Joshua; and neby Culda , possibly a corruption of Caleb. The fact that the Jews venerate a place in [[Samaria]] as Joshua's tomb is a presumption in favor of this site. </p>

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