Bascama

== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible ==

BASCAMA . An unknown town of Gilead ( 1Ma 13:23 ).

== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ==

bas´ka -ma ( Βασκαμά , Baskamá (1 Macc 13:23)): A town located in the country of Gilead, where Tryphon slew Jonathan, the son of Absalom. Compare Jonathan (Apocrypha).

== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature ==

(ἡ Βασκαμά, Josephus Βασκά ), a place in Gilead where Jonathan Maccabaeus was killed by Trypho, and from which his bones were afterward disinterred and conveyed to Modin by his brother Simon (1 Maccabees 13:23; Joseph. Ant. 13:6, 6). Schwarz supposes it to be the Talmudical Bashkar (בִּשְׁכָּר ) or Basgar (בִּסְגָּר ) "of Arabia" (Palest. p. 236, 237). The route of the Syrian murderer is given with so much confusion (see Fritzsche, in loc.) that some have even supposed the Bozkath of Judah to be meant.