BAHURIM. - A locality (Heb. Bahurim "young men": district of the young men; according to J. Fürst and J. P. van Kasteren: "deep place") of the tribe of Benjamin, in the vicinity of Jerusalem, on the road between it and Jericho. There Michal, journeying from Gallim to Hebron, parted from Phaltiel (II Sam. 3:16; Septuagint Βαρχικη); there Shimei cursed the fleeing King David, throwing stones at him from the heights (ibid. 16:5; Septuagint Βαυρικη); there Jonathan and Ahimaaz hid in a cistern (ibid. 17:18; Septuagint Βαυρικη). From B. came David's chief of the guard, Azmaveth or Azmoth (hab-barhumī, Vulgate de Beromi, ibid. 23:31, better hab-bahārāmī in I Chron. 11:33, Vulg. bauramites). It was south of Gallim (the native place of Phaltiel: II Sam. 25:44), east of the Mount of Olives.

The Targum of Jonathan wrongly identifies it with 'Almit, which instead corresponds to the Levitical city of Almon or Almath (Josh. 21:18; I Chron. 6:60, Heb. 6:45) near Anathoth. B. is the present Rās et-Tmīm, a site close to the ancient road to Jericho, where proto-Israelite, Seleucid and Roman pottery has been found. Climbing up from Jericho, the Anonymous Pilgrim of Piacenza writes (A.D. 570): "Non longe ab Hierusolima venimus in Baorin, deinde ad sinistram ad oppida Oliveti montis in Bethania" (ed. P. Geyer, Itinera Hierosolymitana saecc. IV-VIII [CSEL, 39], Vienna 1898, p. 170).

The manuscripts of the Lucianic recension of the Septuagint have Χορραμ (II Sam. 16:5), as does Flavius Josephus (Χωρανός: Ant. Iud., VII, 9, 4), and Βατθχορρων (Flavius Josephus, ibid., 7; Βοχχορης)

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BIBL.: J. Sepp, Jerusalem, Schaffhausen 1873, pp. 836, 853 ff.; J. P. van Kasteren, s. v. in DB, I, coll. 1384-86; P. Thomsen, Loca Sancta, I, Halle 1907, p. 32; O. Procksch, Der Schauplatz der Geschichte Davids, in Palästina Jahrbuch, 5 (1909), p. 76; A. Alt, s. v. ibid., 22 (1926), pp. 30-32 (Gallim: p. 22 ff.); F.-M. Abel, Géographie de la Palestine, II, Paris 1938, p. 260.

Antonino Romeo

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