4 September 2022 index-topical-hb
Below is a snippet from Driver's The Book of Genesis. I've made some slight formatting changes.
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the terebinths (xii. 6) of Mamre. So xviii. 1 (J); and xiv 13 (where, as in xiv. 24, Mamre appears as the name of a local sheikh or chief, the owner of the terebinths): 'Mamre' also occurs (in P) in descriptions of the cave of Machpelah, which is said to be 'in front of Mamre,' xxiii. 17, 19 (where Mamre is identified with Hebron), xxv. 9, xlix. 30, l. 13. The site has not been identified; though if the present mosque (p. 288) is really built over the cave of Machpelah, and in 'in front of' has its usual topographical sense of 'East of,' it will have been not far W. of the present mosque. From Josephus' time (see BJ. IV 9. 7) to the present day, terebinths or oaks, called by the name of Abraham, have been shewn at different spots near Hebron (see a view of the present 'Oak of Abraham' in L. and B. I. 283); but none has any real claim to mark the authentic site of the ancient 'Mamre' (see further particulars in the writers art. "Mamre" in DB.).