Editing Tribe of Manasseh (section)

==According to Biblical criticism==
Although Machir and Gilead, as individuals, are described in biblical genealogies as father and son, and as son and grandson of Manasseh, in the view of some critical scholars [[Machir (biblical region)|Machir]] and [[Gilead]] are treated as the names of tribes which are different from one another in the Song of [[Deborah]]. (Tradition regards these as region names with the region Gilead being named so, long before the grandson of Manasseh.) Additionally, Manasseh is absent from the poem; in the [[Elohist]] texts Manasseh is also frequently absent, while Machir is mentioned. Additionally, Machir is described as settling on the east of the [[Jordan River]], leaving the absence of the western half of Manasseh in these passages still unaccounted for. Critical scholars{{Who|date=June 2017}} argue that the two sections had different origins, noting that in the [[First Book of Chronicles]] separate tribal rulers were named for the western ''half tribe'' and the eastern ''half tribe''.<ref>{{bibleverse|1|Chronicles|27:20-21|HE}}</ref>