Editing Tel Dor (section)

==Etymology==
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''Dor'' ([[Standard Hebrew|Hebrew]]: דוֹר or דאר, meaning "generation", "habitation"), was known as Dora ({{langx|el|τὰ Δῶρα}})<ref name = Josephus1>Josephus, The Jewish War (1:52).</ref> to the Greeks and Romans, and as '''Dir''' in the Late Egyptian [[Story of Wenamun]].<ref name = Bernd>{{Cite book|title=Die Erzählung des Wenamun: ein Literaturwerk im Spannungsfeld von Politik, Geschichte und Religion|last=Schipper|first=Bernd|publisher=Academic Press Fribourg|year=2005|isbn=3525530676|location=Göttingen|pages=45}}</ref>

The city was known as Dor even before the Greeks arrived or had contact with the peoples in Israel. When the Greeks came to the city and learned its name to be Dor, they called it Dora, possibly after a  Dorus said to be a son of [[Poseidon]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wachsmann |first1=Shelley |last2=Raveh |first2=Kurt |title=A concise nautical history of Dor/Tantura |journal=International Journal of Nautical Archaeology |date=August 1984 |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=223–241 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-9270.1984.tb01194.x |bibcode=1984IJNAr..13..223W |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1095-9270.1984.tb01194.x |access-date=22 August 2022 |language=en|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Hunter |first1=Richard |last2=Rengakos |first2=Antonios |last3=Sistakou |first3=Evina |title=Hellenistic Studies at a Crossroads: Exploring Texts, Contexts and Metatexts |date=3 March 2015 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OY0FCgAAQBAJ&dq=Dorus+son+poseidon&pg=PT423 |access-date=22 August 2022 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=9783110368130 |language=en}}</ref>