[b-hebrew] Baal-Hermon

kgraham0938 at comcast.net kgraham0938 at comcast.net
Sat Sep 6 21:24:27 EDT 2008


I'm wondering if BAAL-HERMON is referring to the high places that exist on top of Mt Hermon.  Or maybe the NIV rendering is correct and take those vavs as appositional.

 1 Chronicles 5:23 The people of the half-tribe of Manasseh were numerous; they settled in the land from Bashan to Baal Hermon, that is, to Senir (Mount Hermon).

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From: Yigal Levin <leviny1 at mail.biu.ac.il> 

> Baal-Hermon appears in the boundary of the land not conquered by Joshua, 
> according to the abbreviated description in Judges 3:3: "From Mount Baal-Hermon 
> unto Lebo-Hamath". In the more complete text in Josh. 13:5, the same boundary is 
> described as stretching "from Baal-Gad under Mount Hermon unto Lebo-Hamath." 
> While some scholars have attempted to explain the name "Baal-Hermon" as 
> designating the peak of Mount Hermon, overlooking Baal-Gad itself (probably in 
> the southern Baqa', near Hasbayeh), most assume either that the names are 
> synonymous, or even that the version in Judges is erroneous, a "ghost 
> place-name" caused by the abbreviated boundary-list. However Baal-Hermon is also 
> given as part of the boundary of the Transjordanian half-tribe of Menasseh in 1 
> Chr. 5:23: "from Bashan unto Baal-Hermon and Senir and Mount Hermon". This could 
> be seen either as evidence of there actually being such a place, which was known 
> to either the Chronicler or his immediate source, even though 
> it is not mentioned anywhere else, or of the fact that the Chronicler or his 
> immediate source, when composing his description of the Menassite territory, 
> chose to combine this particular element from Judges 3:3 with the other names 
> that seem more based on Deut. 3:8-13 (which is the only other place in which 
> Hermon, Senir and Bashan are listed together, in a description of the 
> Transjordanian tribes). 
> 
> So which is it: is there such a place (and where is it), or did the Chronicler 
> pick up a "ghost-name" from an unexpected source? 
> 
> Yigal Levin 
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