[b-hebrew] Baal-Hermon

kgraham0938 at comcast.net kgraham0938 at comcast.net
Sun Sep 7 19:22:27 EDT 2008


BDB, seems to think BA'AL HERMON is an actual city.
BA'AL HERMON a city so named as seat of the worship of Baal. ‘The crest of Hermon is strewn with ruins and the foundations of a circular temple of large hewn stones,’ Tristr:Tpg, cf. on sacredness, Euseb. Lag:Onom 217: possibly = BA'AL GAD
I'm wondering if it is possible that the various names in 1 Chron may refer to two different peaks?
BDB says that Sener and Hermon are probably referring to these two peaks in 1 Chronicles
It has three peaks; and the names Hermon and Sener aredistinguished in 1 Ch 5:23 Ct 4:8, may refer to two of these peaks; 
So maybe Ba'al Hermon is referring to an actual city & Hermon in 1 Ch is referring to one of the peaks of the mountain.
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Kelton Graham 
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From: Yigal Levin <leviny1 at mail.biu.ac.il> 

> I'll re-state the problem. While (Mount) Hermon is well-known and appears quite 
> a few times in the Bible, the specific form "Baal-Hermon" appears in ONLY two 
> sources, and both are problematic: 
> The first is in the boundary description of Judges 3:3: instead of Joshua's 
> "Baal-Gad under Mount Hermon", Judges has "Baal-Hermon". Were this the ONLY 
> source, there would be little doubt that this is a "ghost name" created by 
> Judges' abbreviation of Josh. 13:5 
> 
> However, there's 1 Chr. 5. The geographical context is close enough to make it 
> unlikely that this is a different place with the same name (unless there's 
> another Hermon as well...). Where did Chr.'s description come from? If it is 
> taken from a source that is ultimately independent of Judges 3:3, that would be 
> evidence of "Baal-Hermon" being a real place, which would force a re-asessment 
> of the realationship between Judges 3:3 and Josh. 13:5 (that the former is NOT 
> just an abbreviation of the latter). If not, then we have to understand why Chr. 
> took only that term from Judges 3:3, in a description that seems related to 
> Deut. 3. 
> 
> Yigal Levin 
> 
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> To: Yigal Levin ; b-hebrew ; biblical-studies at yahoogroups.com ; 
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> 
> 
> 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). 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Kelton Graham 
> KGRAHAM0938 at comcast.net 
> 
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> From: Yigal Levin 
> 
> > 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 bounda ry 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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