RE: “The Horns of the Altar” and bulls?
March 12, 2022 at 3:28 am
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2022 at 3:38 am by The Grand Nudger.)
There's alot of speculation about the specific name used in the ot, yeah. It's probably a bastardization - it may be intentional (like calling the bulls calves) or it may be incidental. It may refer to some god with a similar sounding name - just one (relatively unimportant) detail that the ot authors got wrong in a vast sea of things they got wrong. Or maybe it refers to some god that the authors community thought other canaanites believed in - like any number of contemporary conspiracy theories about people today from the religiously afflicted. Just as people would famously butcher their own beliefs later, ultimately leading to christianity (beliefs which would themselves be butchered by romans in the retelling).
As always, the first trick is understanding who the authors were, and what the text is not. They were not historians, it is not a history. They weren't ethnographers or anthropologists. The OT is political propaganda.
As always, the first trick is understanding who the authors were, and what the text is not. They were not historians, it is not a history. They weren't ethnographers or anthropologists. The OT is political propaganda.
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