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1 | Who was Tammuz? | Ezek 8:14 | Mommapbs | 39292 | ||
Greetings on this Lord's Day. I think it would be valuable to identify this "god" Tammuz, especially at this Holy season! How about some of you doing a search on this Babylonian god and reporting back to the forum? It is interesting to observe that this mourning for Tammuz was described as an abomination. How might we compare and/or apply this "mourning for Tammuz" to our lives today? |
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2 | Who was Tammuz? | Ezek 8:14 | Morant61 | 39298 | ||
Greetings Mommapbs! Here are a couple of quotes! Harpers Bible Dictionary says of Tammuz: "Tammuz (tahm×uhz), the Hebrew form of Dumuzi (Sumerian, ’proper son’), a god widely honored from the third millennium b.c. in Mesopotamia. The vast and complex Mesopotamian literature about this god shows three essential aspects of him: as lover and consort of Inanna; as one held in the underworld and mourned because of his absence; as the embodiment of spring vegetation and then of vegetation in general. Many laments are preserved that bewail the ’far one’ who has disappeared, detained in the underworld. The laments reflect the aspect of Tammuz as god of vegetation; his disappearance is connected to the drying up of the steppe in summer. His cult may have been brought to Israel by the Assyrians in the ninth and eighth centuries b.c. Aspects of Tammuz became synthesized with West Semitic gods of similar characteristics. Baal Haddu, for example, went down into the underworld, died, rose, and was mourned during his absence. Some of Dumuzi’s traits also appear in Adonis, a god first attested in Greece in the fifth century b.c. In Ezekiel’s vision of four sins being committed in the Jerusalem Temple, the third is a group of women weeping for Tammuz in the north gate (8:14). The women in Ezekiel are mourning this dying and rising god. The action is an abomination to Ezekiel who believes that God does not die and cannot be mourned. See also Ezekiel, The Book of; Sources of the Pentateuch. R.J.C." While, the Bible Knowledge Commentary says of Ezekiel 8:14: "Ezekiel was taken out to the entrance to the north gate of the temple. This was probably the entrance to the temple’s outer court. Beside this gate Ezekiel saw women . . . mourning for Tammuz. ”Tammuz“ is the Hebrew form of the name of the Sumerian god Dumuzi, the deity of spring vegetation. The apparent death of all vegetation in the Middle East during the hot, dry summer months was explained in mythology as caused by Tammuz’s death and descent into the underworld. During that time his followers would weep, mourning his death. In the spring Tammuz would emerge victoriously from the underworld and bring with him the life-giving rains. The worship of Tammuz also involved fertility rites. Worship of the true Giver of rain had been supplanted by the debased adoration of a pagan deity. The worship of the Creator was replaced by the worship of the cycles of creation He had established. And yet Ezekiel was to see things . . . even more detestable than these (cf. vv. 6, 13)." I hope these help! Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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