Anonymous ID: cb5bb7 April 21, 2020, 9:20 p.m. No.8881247   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>8881209

 

SîN -סן, -שׁן

I. Sîn is the name of the Babylonian moongod, attested as theophoric element in Assyrian and Babylonian personal names. In the Old Testament in the names Sanherib (sanḥērıb), Sanballat (sanballaṭ) and Shenazzar (šenʾaṣṣar).

II. The name Sîn (earlier Suen, Suin) survived in the Aramaic speaking world as the name of the moongod residing in Harran (J. N. POSTGATE, RLA IV/2–3 [1973] 124–5; DRIJVERS 1980; TUBACH 1986; GREEN 1992). This cult, already attested at the beginning of the second millennium in Mari, was promoted by Nabonidus who gave Sîn epithets such as ‘Lord/King of the Gods’, or even ‘God of Gods’ (P.-A. BEAULIEU, The Reign of Nabonidus, King of Babylon 556–539 B.C. [New Haven and London 1989] 43–65). For this reason, the Aramaic name of the god Mrlhʾ (Marilahe, ‘Lord of the Gods’) has been identified with Sîn of Harran (GREEN 1992:67). Normally, the name of the moongod was Šah(a)r among the Aramaeans.

In Mesopotamia, the Sumerian and Babylonian moongod, Nanna/Sîn, was venerated everywhere, but Ur remained the centre of his cult. Nanna was born from an illicit union of the Sumerian gods Enlil and Ninlil. The name of the spouse of Sîn, written dNin.gal, was pronounced Nikkal (J.-M. DURAND, NABU 1987/14). This name was taken over as the name of the moongod’s partner in the West-Semitic world: nkl in an Ugaritic myth (KTU 1.24), and in Aramaic inscriptions (KAI 225:9, 226:9; cf. 222 A I 9).

Sîn as element in Akkadian personal names written in an Aramaic context is rendered once as Sn, in the name Snʾblṭ (cf Biblical San-ballat), four times Šn (MARAQTEN 1988:244, 248). In Aramaic names, Sîn is attested as Šn once, Šʾ twice (MARAQTEN 1988:103, 101). In Akkadian syllabic writing the latter element appears as Se, Se-e, Se-ʾ in Aramaic personal names (S. PARPOLA, OLP 16 [1985] 273 n 2 [& lit]).

It is striking that the name appears twice as San- in a Hebrew context, in Sanherib (Sennacherib) and Sanballat; in a Greek context Sennachēribos (LXX, Josephus), Sanacharibos (Herodotus); Sanaballat (LXX), Sanaballetēs (Josephus); see HALAT 718. The Aramaic Wisdom of Ahiqar has both forms S/Šnʾḥrjb. The same development to san- can be observed in the Hebrew word for ‘night-blindness’, sanwērım, to be derived from Akkadian Sîn-lurmâ (and variants) (M. STOL, JNES 45 [1986] 296–297). Some Assyrian names of men and women have the theophoric element dSa-a (J. N. POSTGATE, Iraq 32 [1970] 139). Unrelated is perhaps the name of the moon dSa-nu-ga-ru12 (var. ITI) in the Ebla texts (ARET 5 [1984] 24 no. 4 III 6, var. no. 1 III 12). Once, we find in Hebrew context Šen-, in the name Šen-ʾaṣṣar, among the descendants of David, 1 Chr 3:18 (see HALAT 1475).

III. Bibliography

H. J. W. DRIJVERS, Cults and Beliefs at Edessa (Leiden 1980) 122–145; T. M. GREEN, The City of the Moon God. Religious Traditions of Harran (Leiden 1992); M. MARAQTEN, Die semitischen Personennamen in den alt- und reichsaramäischen Inschriften aus Vorderasien (Hildesheim/ Zürich/New York 1988) 63–64; A. SJÖBERG, Der Mondgott Nanna-Suen in der sumerischen Überlieferung (Stockholm 1960); J. TUBACH, Im Schatten des Sonnengottes. Der Sonnenkult in Edessa, Ḥarrān und Ḥaṭrā am Vorabend der christlichen Mission (Wiesbaden 1986) 129–140.

M. STOL

 

Stol, M. (1999). Sın. In K. van der Toorn, B. Becking, & P. W. van der Horst (Eds.), Dictionary of deities and demons in the Bible (2nd extensively rev. ed., pp. 782–783). Leiden; Boston; Köln; Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge: Brill; Eerdmans.

Anonymous ID: cb5bb7 April 21, 2020, 9:32 p.m. No.8881327   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>8881309

>why don't you want Christians to know the WHOLE truth about the Jews?

Why don't you ascribe something to me that is true? When you start with a lie, fuck everything else you've got to say.

Anonymous ID: cb5bb7 April 21, 2020, 9:57 p.m. No.8881472   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>8881448

>If you want a game changer try Our Lady of Fatima, October 13, 1917.. irrefutable.. 140,000.. at least half were skeptics..

I was with you till this ^^^

How about 500 witnesses to Christ's resurrection? That's proof in any court.

Anonymous ID: cb5bb7 April 21, 2020, 10:15 p.m. No.8881570   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1580

>>8881550

>Your assumptions are incorrect. It's literally in the texts. How can you not know that? It's right there, in all the translations kek There is not one who tries to pretend that a human sacrifice was not a human sacrifice.

Liar

Chapter and verse since Christ has died that there are blood sacrifices or KYS