RT Article
T1 Jeremiah and the Assyrian Sacred Tree
JF Vetus Testamentum
VO 67
IS 3
SP 403
OP 413
A1 Aikhler, Raʿanan 1980-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1561906719
AB Jeremiah 10:5 contains the collocation tomær miqšāh, which has been interpreted in a variety of ways ranging from “scarecrow in a cucumber field” to “plated pillars”. It is argued that the collocation should rather be interpreted as “palm sculpture” and that it refers to a known type of object from the ancient Near East whose depictions are designated by scholars as the “Assyrian sacred tree”.
K1 Jeremiah 10 : Assyrian sacred tree : tree : date palm : iconography : aniconism
DO 10.1163/15685330-12341279$