RE: “The Horns of the Altar” and bulls?
March 6, 2022 at 1:09 pm
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2022 at 1:11 pm by JairCrawford.)
(March 6, 2022 at 9:40 am)GrandizerII Wrote: Whatever the horns may be, I don't think they were meant to be connected specifically to bulls in ANE religions at the time. Obviously there's some symbolic meaning to them, but if you can't find [trustworthy/legit/scholarly] resources online to expound upon their meaning, then you're just going to get speculations here.
Well, the phrase “horns of the altar” in the Amos 3:14 verse appears to be a polemic specifically against the altar at Bethel, which is one of the places we know that a golden calf/bull was erected.
I’m not sure if my lack of finding resources is due to a lack of resources, or if I just wasn’t looking in the right places. For instance, I didn’t go to any scholarly sources behind paywalls so for all I know there could be sources/books that mention it. But the only place I really looked was for scholarly articles or blogs that were free to read online, hence, why I’m curious if anyone here who may be a bit better read on some of these things, may have come across something in their readings.
