Friday, November 26, 2021

J. Glen Taylor on Deuteronomistic History and Yahweh as a Member of "The Host of Heaven"

  

. . . D[euteronomistic]H[istory] is concerned not so much with the worship of Yahweh as a member of the Host of Heaven (2 Kgs 22.19) as it is with the reverse phenomenon, namely with the worship of an object as Yahweh (that is the sun) or objects as members of his Heavenly Host (that is the stars). In other words, the issue is not syncretism but iconism. (J. Glen Taylor, Yahweh and the Sun: Biblical and Archaeological Evidence for Sun Worship in Ancient Israel [Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 111; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1993], 107)