Anonymous ID: 5e771b Jan. 2, 2020, 12:41 p.m. No.7694169   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4583 >>4639

I cannot tolerate antisemitism. I was so thankful when 8kun came up because I knew they had the filter tools that made discourse tolerable.

I know who their spiritual Father is. We should pray for them. But I personally will not tolerate my senses to be inflicted with that particular hatred.

I step down from the soap box.

Anonymous ID: 5e771b Jan. 2, 2020, 1:38 p.m. No.7694649   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Lord of the flies

BAAL ZEBUB בעל זבוב

 

I. The name Baal Zebub occurs only four times in the OT (2 Kgs 1:2, 3, 6, 16). In 2 Kgs 1 an accident of Ahaziah, the king of Israel, and his consulting the oracle of the god Baal Zebub of Ekron is described. For etymological reasons, Baal Zebub must be considered a Semitic god; he is taken over by the Philistine Ekronites and incorporated into their local cult. Zebub is the collective noun for ‘flies’, also attested in Ugaritic (W. H. VAN SOLDT, UF 21 [1989] 369–373: dbb), Akkadian (zubbu), post-biblical Hebrew, Jewish Aramaic (דיבבא), Syriac (debbaba) and in other Semitic languages.

 

II. On the basis zebub, ‘flies’, the name of the god was interpreted as ‘Lord of the flies’; it was assumed that he was a god who could cause or cure diseases. F. BAETHGEN (Beiträge zur semitischen Religionsgeschichte [1888] 25) expressed the view that the flies related to →Baal were seen as a symbol of the solar heat; they were sacred animals. In early Israel, flies were considered a source of nuisance (Isa 7:18; Qoh 10:1). TÅNGBERG (1992) interpreted the name Baal-zebub as “Baal (statue) with the flies (ornamented)” analogous to the Mesopotamian ‘Nintu with the flies’. This can be compared with the fact that the Greeks called →Zeus as healer ἀπόμυιος (Clemens Alexandrinus, Protrepticus II,38, 4; Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio V 14, 1) and that they knew a ἥ ρως μυίαγρος (Pausanias, VIII 26, 7: mainly concerning the driving away of the flies with sacrifices).

The LXX implies by its rendering Βααλ μυῖα (Baal the fly) the same wording as the MT (cf. Josephus, Antiquitates IX,2, 1: Ἀκκάρων θεὸς Μυῖα, Vg: Beelzebub).