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The cult of Ishtar and Tammuz may have been introduced to the Kingdom of Judah during the reign of King Manasseh [80] and the Old Testament contains numerous allusions to them. [81] Ezekiel 8:14 mentions Tammuz by name: [ 82 ] [ 77 ] [ 78 ] [ 79 ] "Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the north; and ...
The cult of Ishtar and Tammuz may have been introduced to the Kingdom of Judah during the reign of King Manasseh [18] and the Old Testament contains numerous allusions to them. [19] Ezekiel's testimony is the only direct mention of Tammuz in the Hebrew Bible, [20] [21] but the cult of Tammuz may also be alluded to in Isaiah 17:10–11: [20] [21]
Dumuzi-abzu was the tutelary goddess of Kinunir, a city located near Lagash. [2] It was also known under the name Kinirša. [3] It is not universally agreed that Kinnir was yet another form of the same name, [4] but Manfred Krebernik nonetheless argues that its city goddess, Nin-Kinnir, "lady of Kinnir," was a name of Dumuzi-abzu. [5]
The Seventeenth of Tammuz (Biblical Hebrew: שִׁבְעָה עָשָׂר בְּתַמּוּז , Modern: Shiv'á Asár beTammúz, Tiberian : Šib̲ʿāʿāśār bəṯammuz)) is a Jewish fast day commemorating the breach of the walls of Jerusalem before the destruction of the Second Temple.
17 Tammuz – Seventeenth of Tammuz – is a fast day from 1 hour before sunrise to sundown in remembrance of Jerusalem's walls being breached. 17 Tammuz is the beginning of The Three Weeks, in which Jews follow similar customs as the ones followed during the Omer from the day following Passover until the culmination of the mourning for the death of the students of Rabbi Akiva (the 33rd day of ...
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T. K. Cheyne pointed out that the Septuagint reads simply Rimmon, and argues that this may be a corruption of Migdon (Megiddo) and ultimately of Tammuz-Adon. He would render the verse, "In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of the women who weep for Tammuz-Adon" (Adon means "lord"). [32]
Ancient Sumerian cylinder seal impression showing the god Dumuzid being tortured in the underworld by galla demons. The ancient Mesopotamian underworld (known in Sumerian as Kur, Irkalla, Kukku, Arali, or Kigal, and in Akkadian as Erṣetu), was the lowermost part of the ancient near eastern cosmos, roughly parallel to the region known as Tartarus from early Greek cosmology.