{"id":69389,"date":"2020-02-02T08:17:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T06:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=69389"},"modified":"2023-08-27T15:27:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T12:27:46","slug":"a-queen-of-the-heavens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-queen-of-the-heavens\/","title":{"rendered":"A Queen Of The Heavens?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[429],"acf":{"old_id":"69389","type":"event","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"407","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Ishtar, Astarte - idolatry runs rampant\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7:18 \u201cThe children gather wood, and the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of the Heavens and to pour libations to other gods, so as to vex Me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Queen of the Heavens is the Assyro-Babylonian fertility goddess Ishtar, associated with the evening star Venus. The Canaanite equivalent is Astarte. The cult of astral deities was especially popular in the last two centuries of the First Temple period. There is archaeological evidence that sweet cakes, shaped in the image of the goddess, were used in the cult of Ishtar. One should note that the Masoretic Text has <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">melekhet<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cwork of,\u201d instead of <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">malkat<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cqueen of,\u201d but that is almost certainly a pious euphemistic alteration by the Tiberian grammarians in order to avoid the suggestion that there could be a Queen of the Heavens.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: Robert Alter, <em>The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton &amp; Co., 2019, ad loc. 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