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Dortns (Aoproc), a leading Jew, charged before luadratus, president of Syria, with inciting his conn- ymen to revolt against the Komans (Josephus, Ant. X, 6, 2).
DoT7in''end8 (Aopv/iivijc)» father of Ptolemy, omamed Macron (1 Mace, iii, 88; 2 Mace, iv, 46). Ls this Ptolemy was in the service of Ptolemy Philo- letor, king of Egypt, before he deserted to Antiochns 'Ipiplianes, it is possible that his father is the same >orymenes who fought against Antiochus the Great Polyb. V, 61).
Doaitheaiis. See Dositheus.
Doaith^etkB (Aoo-cdeoc), the name of several men n the Apocrypha.
1. **A priest tad Levite,** who, according to the ipociyphal additions to the book of Esther, carried the etter of Mordecai respecting the feast of Parim to Bg^-pt (Esth. xi, 1, 2). It is scarcely likely that he is identical with the Dositheus who is mentioned by Josephus {Ap. ii, 6) as one of the '* commanders of the forces" of Ptolemy VI Philometor, though he proba- bly lived in the reign of that monarch. Josephus alpo tpeakfi of a Doeithens who betrayed lo Herod a hostile letter of Hyrcanus {Ant, xv, 6, 2).
2. One of the generals of Judas Maccabeus (2 Mace, xii, 19, 24).
3. A cavahry soldier in the army of Judas Maccabas- 08, of the company of Bacenor (2 Mace, xii, 36).
4. A renegade Jew in the camp of Ptolemy Philo- patoT (8 Mace, i, 3).
Dositheus, a Samaritan, in the first century, who claimed to be Messiah, or the prophet promised in Deut. xviu, 18. The Church fiithers ascribe to him pecul- iarly many doctrines which had always been held by the Samaritans. He was chiefly distinguished by an ascetic life, and an over-scrupulous observance of the Sabbath (Origen, De princ, iv, c. 17 : Quo quisque coiporis situ in prinoipio sabbathi inventus ftierit, in eo ad vesperum usque ipsi permanendum esse), which originated evidently in a verbal interpretation of £xod. xvi, 29. As late as the year 688 the followers
of Dositheus were engaged in a controversy with the other Samaritans concerning the passage, Deut. xviii, 18 (Eulogius ap. Phot, bibl. cmi p. 230; Gieseler, Ch. History, i, § 18). Instead of being included in the class of heretics, he ought to be classed among those lunatics who have &ncied themselves divine messen- gers. His impious claims caused an order from the Samaritan high-priest for his apprehension ; and Do- sitheus took refuge in a cave, where he is said to have starved to death (Epiphanius, Hares, xiii, cited by Mosheim, Hist. Comment. N. T. 1861, i, 240 note).
Dositheus, the founder of the Russian sect called after him Dositheowschtschina. He taught that it was sufficient to confess one's sins and to receive the Lord's Supper once every ten years, and at the dose of one's ^^Sfi.~-AUgem. Recd-Encyldop. iv, 817.
Dositheus, Greek patriarch of Jerusalem. He assembled, in 1672, a synod at Jerusalem for the pur- pose of rooting out Calvinism, which, in his opinion, had been introduced into the Greek Church by the patriarch Cyril Lucarb. He died in 1706. — AUgem. ReaUEnqfJdop. iv, 817.
Do'thaSiin (Judith iv, 6). See Dotham.
Do'than (Heb. Dothan', -jM, contracted for "j^n^, tvo cisterns, which occurs with H directive, Dotha'ye- nah, nrM, "to Dathan," Gen. xxxvii, 17 [first clause] ; Sept. ^ot^aUfA and Auiatfi, the latter in Ju- dith; Yulg. Dothain), the place where Joseph fbund his brethren, who had wandered thither with their flocks fh)m Shechem, and where he was treacherously sold by them to the Ishmaelites (Gen. xxxvii, 17). It next appears as the residence of Elisha, and the scene of a remarkable vision of horses and chariots of fire surrounding "the mountain" (^nSl) on which the city stood, while the Syrians were smitten with blind- ness at the word of Elisha (2 Kings vi, 13). It is not again mentioned in the 0. T. (Reland, Palast. p. 739) ; but later still we encounter it — then evidenUy well known — as a landmark in the account of Holofemes's campaign against Bethulia (Judith iv, 6 ; vii, 8, 18 ; viii, 3). In the Vat., and Max., and Yulg. text — it is also mentioned in Judith iii, 9, where the A, Y. has " Judna" (lovdaia for Au/rata). This passage was a great puzzle to the old geographers, not only from the corrupt reading, 'lov6aiac, but also from the expres- sion, still found in the text, roH vpiovog rov fuyaXov ; A.Y. **the great strait;" literally, "the great saw." The knot was cut by Reland, who conjectured most ingeniously that irpiwv was the translation of '^i^Q, Massor=^a saw, which was a corruption of *li®'^ttj 3f«Aor="the plain" (Pattest, p. 742 sq.). All these passages testify to its situation being in the centre of the country, near the southern edge of the great plain of Esdraelon. Dothan is placed by Eusebius and Je- rome twelve Soman miles north of Sebaste, or Sama- ria (pnomast. s. v. Au>dadfi, Dothaim). The well into which Joseph was cast by bis brothers, and con- sequently the site of Dothan, has, however, been placed by tradition in a very distant quarter, namely, about three miles south-east from Safed, where there is a khan called Khan Jubb Yusuf, the Khan of Joseph's Pit, because the well connected with it has long pass- ed among Christians and Moslems for the well in ques- tion (Robinson, Res. iii, 317). The true site of Dothan was known to the Jewish traveller Rabbi ha-Parchi, A.D. l.BOO (see Zunz's extracts in notes to Benjamin of Tndela, Asher's ed. ii, 484), and to Schwarz, A.D. 1846 {Palest, p. 168); but neither of these travellers gives any account of the site. It was f|ccidentally discovered in 1862 by Yan de Yelde {Narrative, i, 864- 869). Dr. Robinson, in his last visit to Palestine, likewise identified the true site of Dothan in the mod- em name Doth&n, a place which he found in the mid- dle of a beautiftil plr.in extending south-westerly fix)m