The Anti-Yahweh Label lassaw' in Jeremiah (PART 1)

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Old Testament essays Pub Date : 2022-06-21 DOI:10.17159/2312-3621/2021/v34n3a16

Wynand C. Retief

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ABSTRACT The traditional stance is that לשׁוא in Jeremiah (2:30; 4:30; 6:29; 18:15 and 46:11) denotes futility, mostly translated as "in vain. " This study scrutinises the first three texts (Jer 2:30; 4:30 and 6:29) in an effort to substantiate and modify a recent hypothesis that this term is instead a reference to the god Baal, " The Vain/Worthless One." Support for the said hypothesis is gained by (1) a tentative observation in the discussion of Jer 2:30 that שׁוא futility, "in vain ") is apparently limited to wisdom literature, whereas the Jeremiah texts are part of a cultic-legal corpus within a covenantal setting where the lexeme consistently appears as the prepositional prefixed definite form לשׁוא and apparently refers to prohibited objects of worship; (2) a search for intertexual clues in Jer 4:30; and (3) alertness to recurring key words and chiastic patterns in the context of Jer 6:29. In the course of working through the relevant texts, the notion took shape that the preposition ל־ is -besides meaning "for, for the sake of - a technical term indicating covenantal relationship.1 It therefore seems that לַשָּׁוְא is not only a pejorative reference to Baal but also a label of the contra and anti-Yahweh overlord/s (בעלים/בעל) in (illegal) covenant relation to Israel. Keywords: Jeremiah, Exegesis, Baal, Deities, Worthless

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耶利米书中的反耶和华标签套索（上）

摘要传统观点认为，在耶利米书中（2:30；4:30；6:29；18:15和46:11），“徒劳无功”表示徒劳，主要翻译为“徒劳”。本研究仔细研究了前三个文本（Jer 2:30；4:10和6:29），试图证实和修改最近的一个假设，即这个词是指神巴尔，“虚空/无价值的一个”。“对上述假设的支持是通过（1）在Jer 2:30的讨论中的一个试探性观察获得的，该观察是“徒劳的”“）显然仅限于智慧文学，而耶利米书文本是契约环境中邪教法律语料库的一部分，在契约环境中，词位始终以介词前缀的确定形式出现，并且显然指的是被禁止的崇拜对象；（2）在Jer 4:30中寻找跨性线索；以及（3）Jer 6:29中反复出现的关键词和狭隘模式的警觉性。在阅读相关文本的过程中，这个概念形成了，介词“为了”是一个表示契约关系的技术术语。1因此，在（非法）中，“为了”似乎不仅是对巴尔的贬义引用，而且是反对和反耶和华霸主的标签与以色列的盟约关系。关键词：耶利米书，训诫，巴尔，神性，无价值

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Old Testament essays Arts and Humanities-Religious Studies

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期刊介绍： Old Testament Essays functions as a vehicle which publishes Old Testament research from various points of view. Its primary aim is to regulate and propagate the study of the Old Testament in Africa. Various fields related to the study of the Old Testament are covered: philological / linguistic studies, historical critical studies, archaeological studies, socio-historical studies, literary studies and rhetorical studies.