Baal and the baals in the Book of Hosea : a comparative study
| dc.contributor.author | Kato, Szabolcs-Ferencz | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-24T11:00:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-07-24T11:00:16Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The identity and function of Baal and the baals in Hos is a much-discussed issue in the Hebrew Bible. The lexeme occurs in three chapters (Hos 2; 11; 13) and is probably alluded to in Hos 9:10. But who is this Baal? Is he the storm god, a cipher for any foreign deity venerated in Israel, or a canaanized YHWH figure? Is the usage of the word in any way homogeneous? After a brief survey of the positions, I will argue that Baal in Hos 2 seems to be the storm god; the lexeme works as a generic term for the foreign gods in Hos 11:2, and in retrospective discourses (13:1; 9:10) it refers to the Baal cult manifested as bull images. However, even the storm god Baal of Hos is very different from his Canaanite counterpart. Baal in Hos 2 is merely a fertility god without any political or warrior functions. | en_US |
| dc.description.department | Old Testament Studies | en_US |
| dc.description.librarian | am2024 | en_US |
| dc.description.sdg | None | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | http://academic.sun.ac.za/jnsl | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Kato, S.-F. 2023, 'Baal and the Baals in the Book of Hosea', Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 35-54, doi : 10.10520/ejc-semlang_v49_n1_a2. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0259-0131 | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.10520/ejc-semlang_v49_n1_a2 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/97209 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Stellenbosch University, Department of Ancient Studies | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Stellenbosch University, Department of Ancient Studies. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Baal and the baals | en_US |
| dc.subject | Hebrew Bible | en_US |
| dc.subject | YHWH | en_US |
| dc.subject | Book of Hosea | en_US |
| dc.title | Baal and the baals in the Book of Hosea : a comparative study | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |