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Respecting the Anglo-Israel mania, a self-evident and undeniable proof of an early settlement of
Israelitish tribes in the Untied Kingdom is afforded by names of towns, of a nature which historians
as well as ethnologists admit. Everybody will agree that Dover, for instance, is nothing else than a
dialectical form of the locality Debir (Joshua xiii, 26). Edinburgh is no doubt the Edentown, and, in
fact, there is an Edenic view from that town. Eboracum (York) is either the town of Eber or else Ebras,
"the blessed town," with a Latin termination.
But let us take London, whose derivation is still doubtful;
as a Hebrew name we shall find it to be Lan-Dan, "the dwelling of Dan." Old London was, therefore,
inhabited by the Danites (perhaps a part of them went over to Den-mark, although not yet claimed by
the Danes).
In the name of Dublin is most likely to be found a reversed form, that name seeming to
be Dublan, the dwelling of Dub or Dob. This word, which means usually in Hebrew, a bear, could
dialectically mean a wolf (hardened from Zeeb). The wolf represents the tribe of Benjamin (Genesis
xlix, 27) consequently a part of the Benjamites settled in Dublin, and that perhaps in the time of
Jeremiah, who, it is know, came over to Ireland, married a Irish princess, and brought over a copy
of the law, which is now buried in the Mount Tara (from Thorah, the law). The tribal characteristic of
"ravening as a wolf" still continues to mark the descendants.
It is not unlikely that Phoenicians settled also in England, which has long been suspected
from the frequently employed word, Bal, as a prefix in Celtic localities. Could not Sydenham mean
"the home of the Sidonians?" ---- A Neubauer in Notes and Queries.
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