Jeremiah and the Assyrian Sacred Tree
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...
| Publié dans: | Vetus Testamentum |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2017
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Vetus Testamentum
Année: 2017, Volume: 67, Numéro: 3, Pages: 403-413 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Bibel. Jeremia 10,5
/ Assyrien
/ Arbre sacré
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| RelBib Classification: | BC Religions du Proche-Orient ancien HB Ancien Testament |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Jeremiah 10
Assyrian sacred tree
tree
date palm
iconography
aniconism
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| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
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| Résumé: | 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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| ISSN: | 1568-5330 |
| Contient: | In: Vetus Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685330-12341279 |