Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] The Golden Calf & the Hathor Cult of Sinai ?
Date: 23 Sep 2004 11:35 GMT
Hallo Peter,
I don´t know how you perceive this but it is for my sensibilty a quite
obscene detail to sit on a camel´s saddle onatop of the teraphim. Except one
was representing a riding scene and a saddle would make peculiar sense. The
judean variant made out of this a camel´s saddle.
And why does Genesis treat this scene should this have been some unimportant
teraphim arriving with Rachel - so unimportantr that they had no religious
consequence. Well I suppose, that such an antique reminiscence/memory would
exist only if it was a rather memorial event. The arrival of THE cult image
itself. The proto-icon of those images proliferating later in Israel.
I don´t beleave that any in Genesis is only for gossip.
> The very good reason why the teraphim (not ephods, no suggestion that
> they were calves, no one knows) were hidden under a saddle is that there
> was already a saddle on the camel and that is what Rachel would be
> expected to sit on.
>
Best regards,
Bányai Michael
Stuttgart
Re: [b-hebrew] The Golden Calf & the Hathor Cult of Sinai ?
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