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Akkadian Translation of Israelite Gezer Tablet (Calendar) Blames 840 BCE Elijah Drought on Astrology
- Author(s):
- David Olmsted (see profile)
- Date:
- 2020
- Group(s):
- Alphabetic Akkadian, Biblical archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology
- Subject(s):
- Akkadians, Teaching
- Item Type:
- Online publication
- Tag(s):
- Ancient Alphabetic inscriptions, temple, Akkadian, Ancient Israel and Judea, Ancient languages
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/80hp-sq75
- Abstract:
- This early (northern) Israelite student teaching text blames the cause of the 840 BCE Elijah drought on the astrological powers of the Ancient Pagan Paradigm. It shows a Pagan Israel just prior to the Yawist revolution by referencing the gods Hu as the Healer, Su as the shepherd corresponding to the full moon, and the goddess Utu as the Opener of invisible platonic forms. It is similar but narrower in blame for a drought to the Philistine student teaching text found at Izbet Sartah which talks about the earlier 980 BCE drought. The Pagan Israelite text does not blame the drought on the emotional state of the people as do other Pagan texts. The Gezer tablet is written in the empire language of Alphabetic Akkadian (textual Aramaic).
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- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-ShareAlike
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