(March 12, 2022 at 3:28 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: 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 probably refers 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.
Well I know we have different areas in the OT that mention the Ammonites and their chief deity. Multiple mentions of “Molek”, but some verses refer to the deity as “Milkom”, which is, quite different.
