Jeremiah and the Assyrian Sacred Tree
In: Vetus TestamentumJeremiah 10:5 contains the collocation tomær miqšāh, which has been interpreted in a variety of ways ranging from “scarecrow in a cucumber field” to “plated pillars”. It is argued that the collocation should rather be interpreted as “palm sculpture” and that it refers to a known type of object from the ancient Near East whose depictions are designated by scholars as the “Assyrian sacred tree”.
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Ibid., p. 69.
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28
Ibid., p. 23.
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Ibid., pp. 21, 27-58, 61-141.
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Porter, “Sacred Trees”, passim; idem, “Meaning”, passim; I. J. Winter, “Ornament and the ‘Rhetoric of Abundance’ in Assyria”, ErIsr 27 (2003; Hayim and Miriam Tadmor Volume), pp. 252*-264* at 253*.
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E. B. Tylor, “The Winged Figures of the Assyrian and Other Ancient Monuments”, Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 12 (1890), pp. 383-393 at 391-392; W. H. Ward, The Seal Cylinders of Western Asia (Washington, dc, 1910), p. 229.
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I. Ziffer, “Western Asiatic Tree-Goddesses”, Egypt and the Levant 20 (2010), pp. 411-430.
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Jeremiah 10:5 contains the collocation tomær miqšāh, which has been interpreted in a variety of ways ranging from “scarecrow in a cucumber field” to “plated pillars”. It is argued that the collocation should rather be interpreted as “palm sculpture” and that it refers to a known type of object from the ancient Near East whose depictions are designated by scholars as the “Assyrian sacred tree”.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Views | 221 | 42 | 2 |
| Full Text Views | 257 | 14 | 2 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 125 | 41 | 4 |