TY - JOUR

T1 - К ВОПРОСУ О «ТЕОЛОГИИ» ОБИТАТЕЛЕЙ ХИРБЕТ-КЕЙАФЫ

AU - Tantlevskij, Igor

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Center for Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition. All rights reserved.

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - The excavations at the site of Khirbet Qeiyafa, the results of which have been published in recent years, shed new light on the formation of Judah's state structure and the united Kingdom of Israel under David (or perhaps even a miniempire) as a whole. The artifacts found here testify to a powerful and well-organized state structure formed during the time of King David, with all the basic attributes inherent in it, as the Bible tells us. The author of the article pays special attention to the interpretation of the name 'Išba'al (literally "man of Ba'al"; alternative vocalization and interpretation: 'Ašba'al, i.e., "Ba'al gave"), attested in one inscription written from right to left in Canaanite script on a ceramic shard from a vessel from Khirbet Qeiyafa (the turn of the 11-10th centuries BCE), in a broad theological context. The author admits that in theophoric Judahite and Israelite names attested both in the Bible and in epigraphy - including the inscription from Khirbet Qeiyafa - of the period of Judges and the united Kingdom of Israel (at least under Saul and David) the component Ba'al, literally "Lord," was used to refer to the God of Israel, not to a Semitic pagan deity. It also implicitly suggests that already at the dawn of Jewish history, pious people sought to avoid pronouncing the Name of God, the Tetragrammaton, "in vain".

AB - The excavations at the site of Khirbet Qeiyafa, the results of which have been published in recent years, shed new light on the formation of Judah's state structure and the united Kingdom of Israel under David (or perhaps even a miniempire) as a whole. The artifacts found here testify to a powerful and well-organized state structure formed during the time of King David, with all the basic attributes inherent in it, as the Bible tells us. The author of the article pays special attention to the interpretation of the name 'Išba'al (literally "man of Ba'al"; alternative vocalization and interpretation: 'Ašba'al, i.e., "Ba'al gave"), attested in one inscription written from right to left in Canaanite script on a ceramic shard from a vessel from Khirbet Qeiyafa (the turn of the 11-10th centuries BCE), in a broad theological context. The author admits that in theophoric Judahite and Israelite names attested both in the Bible and in epigraphy - including the inscription from Khirbet Qeiyafa - of the period of Judges and the united Kingdom of Israel (at least under Saul and David) the component Ba'al, literally "Lord," was used to refer to the God of Israel, not to a Semitic pagan deity. It also implicitly suggests that already at the dawn of Jewish history, pious people sought to avoid pronouncing the Name of God, the Tetragrammaton, "in vain".

KW - Ba'al

KW - Ba'alism

KW - epigraphy

KW - Judah

KW - Judaism

KW - Khirbet Qeiyafa

KW - King David

KW - theology

KW - theophoric names

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U2 - 10.25205/1995-4328-2022-16-2-706-730

DO - 10.25205/1995-4328-2022-16-2-706-730

M3 - статья

AN - SCOPUS:85132806534

VL - 16

SP - 706

EP - 730

JO - SCHOLE. ФИЛОСОФСКОЕ АНТИКОВЕДЕНИЕ И КЛАССИЧЕСКАЯ ТРАДИЦИЯ

JF - SCHOLE. ФИЛОСОФСКОЕ АНТИКОВЕДЕНИЕ И КЛАССИЧЕСКАЯ ТРАДИЦИЯ

SN - 1995-4328

IS - 2

ER -