(urth) Laundress and Star (AEG spoilers)

[James B. Jordan]

At 06:43 AM 10/20/2008, you wrote:
> > Phoenicia, Aethiopia--either way it's where Baal was worshipped,
> > right?  They had human sacrifices, at least according to the Bible.
>
>So did the Bni Israel, at least according to the Bible.
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>'Baal' means 'Lord'. That's it. Contrast various names in Kings and
>Chronicles. -baal becomes -bosheth ('bosheth' means 'shame'). Remember
>that the order of books does not correspond to historical order:
>Chronicles is the earlier work.

Just for clarity: Kings is earlier and Chronicles later. But you have 
it right that the Chronicler uses the original form of the names. 
There are reasons for this connected with the purposes of the two books.

Nutria Theologia


> > Chesterton has a whole bit on it in The Everlasting Man, about how the
> > Phoenician civilization was just about the only thing the Romans and
> > the Jews hated equally.
>
>Chesterton is right a lot of the time, and clever and amusing even when he
>is wrong. Not having read 'TEM' I have no idea which he is being here.
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James B. Jordan
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