Dale, THE Kino's C?f^nn p^^, vaOe^ o/tke king), the name of a valley apparently near the Dead Sea, where Melchizedek met Abraham (Gen. xiv, 17) ; oth- erwise called the VaUeg of Skaveh (q. v.), but identi- fied by some with another of the same name (the mod- em Valley of Jehoshaphat, or, rather, its southern part, opting into the plot used for the king's garden, about the well of Job and the pool of Siloam), in which Absalom reared his family monument (2 Sam. xviiJ, 18). See Absalom's Tomb.
Dale, or Dalsn, Aktonius Yak, was bom Kov. 8, 1688, in Hsarlem. He was brought up to business against his will. At the age of thirty he applied hinv- self to the study of the ancient languages, and at the same time to that of medicine. He became a practis- ing physician, and attained distinction In his profes- sion. His fidthful and disinterested attention to his poor patients secured hnn high praise. He also exer- cised for a time his preaching gift among the Mennon- ites; but his sermons were overloaded with learned citations, and hence were hardly acceptable to the people. His European reputation rests, however, on the learned works which he wrote against what he regarded as superstition. In 1688 he published De oraculis Eikniconm dittertaiionet dua^ quorum prior de iptomm duratione ac dffectu^ potterior de eorundtm ttuOorHnu (Amst 8vo). In this work he combated the opinion that demoniac influence was exerted in connection with the oracles of the ancients, and that sorcery is to be ascribed to Satan. The work pro- duced a great sensation. Fontenelle made ftree use of it in the composition of his Hittoire det Oracks (Paris, 1707, 12mo). He wrote several other works in Latin, and one in his native tongue, on the same subject, dis- crediting belief in Satanic agency, especially when applied to the interpretation of Scripture. He also published a DUtert, tniper Arittea de LXX interpretC. htUj with a history of ceremonies of baptism among the Jews, and among the various Christian communions (Amst. 1704, 4to). He died Nov. 28, 1708, deeply la-
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mented. I. Clericns, T. JanBsoniiif, and Prof. Moms were among his fdends.
Daleites, followen of Dftyid Dale, paitor of an Independent congregatioa at Glasgow. Sinee the ' death of Mr. Dale they hare formed a Connection with the Inghamites (q. y.).
Dalmann'tha ^AaXfiavovBd, deriv. nnknown, nnless [as suggested bj Lightfoot, Hor, Eebr, p. 555 ; comp. SimonJs Onom. p. 51] for the Zalmom, ')1sb2C, a town mentioned in the Tahnnd as Ijing near Tiberi- as), a place mentioned only in Mark viii, 10, where we read that Jesus, after feeding the moltltode in the Decapolis, east of the Sea of Galilee, took a boat and " came into the regions (tl^ rd fdpi) of Dalmanotha ;" while the parallel passage (Matt, xr, 89) states that he <t came into the borders of Magdala." From this we may conclude that Dalmanntha was a town on the west side of the lake near Magdala. The latter stood dose npon the shore, at the southern end of the little plain of Gennesaret, at the present Mejdel. See Maodai«a. Immediately south of it a precipitous hill juts out into the sea. Beyond this, about a mile fh>m Magdala, a narrow glen breaks down from the west. At its mouth are some cultivated fields and gardens, amid which, just by the beach, are seyeral copious fountains, sur- rounded by heavy ancient walls and the ruins of a vil- lage. The place is called *Am el-Bdrideh, '* the cold fountain*' (Robinson, Ret, iii, 27), and has, with great probability, been thought to be the site of Dalmanutha (Porter, in Smith and ELitto, s. v. ; Tristram, Land of Itrcielf p. 429). See CAPBBir aum. Thomson thinks it may be the present ruined site called DaOumUi^ on the river south of the lake, although he admits this seems too far from Magdala {Lcmd and Booh^ ii, 60). Schwarz (Paktt. p. 189) finds it in the " cave of Teti- man" ('jXTa'^bn), mentioned in the Talmud, situated probably in the cliffs above Mejdel (Van de Yelde, Jfe- fitoiV, p. 334), which, he learns, was also called TaU mamUa.
Dalma'tia (AfzK/mrlaj deny, unknown), a moun- tainous country on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea (Pliny, iii, 28; Strabo, vii, 815), between the riv- ers Titins and Drinus, and the Bebian and Scordian hills, south of Labumia (PUny, iii, 26), which, togeth- er with it, formed, after the expedition of Tiberius, A.D. 9, the Roman province of Ulyricom, for which, indeed, it was often spoken of 83monymou8ly (Cony- beare and Howson's 8t. Paul, ii, 126). Its principal towns were Salona, Epidanrus, Lissus, etc (Ptolemy, ii, 17, 4). It derived its name from the Dalmata, a barbarous but valiant race, supposed to be of Thracian origin, and who were very skilful in navigating the sea along theb: coasts, and extremely bold in their pi- racies. The capital, Dalminium, was taken and de- stroyed by the Romans, B.C. 157 ; the country, how- ever, was not completely subdued till the time of Au- gustus. The modem name of the country is the same as the ancient. Education and morality are here at a lower ebb than in any other part of the Austrian em- pire (see the Penngf Cyciopadutj s. v. ; Smith's Diet, qf Class. Gtog. s. v., and the travellers there referred to). See Illtrioum.