I did a thread like this over a year ago, and it was a hoot! Also, I know you've all got some new pictures of Jehovah, and I wanna see them! Here's mine:
Recent Jehovah Sightings!
by Nosferatu 18 Replies latest jw friends
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Elsewhere
Hold on a sec... I thought that only Jebus appeared on things like old tree stumps and carpet stains. Does this mean Jehover is starting to make appearances too?
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Stefanie
Nos, that reminds me of that incubus video
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Leolaia
Here is a drawing of Jehovah, literally:
This is the famous pithos drawing from Kuntillet `Ajrud, dating to the 8th century BC. Above the heads of the two figures is a Hebrew inscription which reads: "Utterance of Jehoash (literally, 'syw) the king: 'Say to Jehallel and to Joasah and to [?]: 'I bless you by Yahweh of Samaria and his Asherah". Jehoash was "king of Israel in Samaria" from c. 801-786 BC (2 Kings 13:10-19). The Bible says that he did "what is evil in the eyes of Yahweh (v. 11). Yahweh is generally thought to be the taller figure on the left (with the horns) and Asherah, his consort, is controversially thought to be depicted on the right. The two figures are drawn with bovine features and the image is reinforced by the depiction on the left of a cow suckling a calf. There is considerable evidence that Yahweh was worshipped in Samaria as a bull-calf. A potsherd found in Samaria, dating to the period, was written with the words 'gl yh "Bull-calf of Yah". The book of Hosea, dating to c. 725 BC, also condemns the "bull-calf of Samaria" (Hosea 8:5-6), and specifically mentions the bull-calf idol that was in the city of Bethel (10:5). Psalm 132 also refers to Yahweh as the "Bull of Jacob":
"How he made an oath to Yahweh, and vowed to the Bull of Jacob...I will give my eyes no sleep, my eyelids no rest, until I find a place for Yahweh, a tent-shrine for the Bull of Jacob" (Psalm 132:2, 4).
Similarly, this epithet is also found throughout Isaiah (cf. 1:24, 49:26, 60:1, etc.) and in Genesis 49:24: "The archers bitterly attacked him, shot at him, and harassed him severely, yet his bow remained unmoved; his arms were made agile by the hands of the Bull of Jacob". The phrase "Bull of Jacob" is connected with the "Bull of Samaria" condemned by Hosea because the Jacob traditions in Genesis center on Bethel as a cultic site (cf. Genesis 28:10-22; 35:1-15), and that is the same town the Israelites of Samaria had a bull-calf idol for Yahweh. Moreover, Judges 20:26-28 presents a tradition about Phinehas, the grandson of Aaron (who was associated with the Golden Calf of the wilderness traditions), as presiding over the Ark of the Covenant in Bethel, and Psalm 132 is specifically concerned with finding a place for the Ark of the Covenant. All this suggests that the worship of Yahweh in Israel involved bull-calf iconography. This is hardly unusual since native Canaanite religion had "Bull El" as one of the epithets of the god El (conflated with Yahweh in Yahwism), and both El and Baal were described in Canaanite myths with bovine imagery.
So there you have it....a drawing of Jehovah from ancient Israel!
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candidlynuts
gasp! THEY DREW THEIR DANGLY MAN PARTS!
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shotgun
They were very generous in depicting their manhood and what the hell is that cow doing to Jacobs Bull?
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