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Ataroth-addar
ATAROTH-ADDAR at’ ə roth ăd’ ərh (עַטְרֹ֣ות אַדָּ֔ר crowns of Addar). In
A. Alt (ZDPV 69, 1953) had suggested that Aṭaroth and Mizpah are only different names for the same place; the former for the premonarchic town and the latter for the monarchic period beginning with Asa’s fortifications (
Yehezkel Kaufmann has also dealt with M. Noth’s interpretation of these border lists. Kaufmann convincingly demonstrates that
Bibliography
Y. Kaufmann, The Biblical Account of the Conquest of Palestine (1953), 28-33; J. Simons, The Geographical and Topographical Texts in the OT (1959) 161-169.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
(`aTroth ’addar, "crowns of Addar"). See Ataroth (2).