Posted on 07/27/2015 8:05:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Beersheba brand anti-aging cream
Do they have any idea what the jar was used for?
“Eshbaal Ben Beda”
It means “may contain peanuts”.
Camel Hair styling gel.
Nah. That would be Esh-bull Jeme-Carta.
"No MSG"
Too bad they did not elaborate on why they believe that the jar belonged to a different Eshbaal.
I surmise that they believe that the jar would belong to a wealthy farmer and that the youngest son of Saul would not inherit anything and thereby not be a wealthy farmer.
I don’t remember anyone named Mason in the Bible.
Uhhhhhhh...doesn’t Eshbaal ben Bada mean “Eshbaal, son of Bada”?
Is Bada a corresponding name for Saul?
baal part of name is quite troubling.
Ba’al is kind of a neutral word in Hebrew. It means ‘master’ like in English we might say ‘master of the house’ or ‘master of the English language’.
Gefilte Fish.
Mason Adams(?) peddled smucker’s in jars so maybe a connection after all. Couldn’t resist the lame attempt at humor.
I do not understand why people jump to the conclusion that it was that particular person. It might have been a common name at the time and place.
`Saul’s Circumcision Salve’
For the people who follow this stuff, it’s not likely to be the same guy as in the Bible. It’s just that we see the same or a similar name from what seems to be the same time period. This contradicts historical minimalists, who hold that without hard evidence, the details in the Bible can be assumed to come from a much later period.
Had to look that up...you’re right.
“With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good!”
Pretty plain in scripture who baal was.
http://www.gotquestions.org/who-Baal.html
Question: “Who was Baal?”
Answer: Baal was the name of the supreme god worshiped in ancient Canaan and Phoenicia. The practice of Baal worship infiltrated Jewish religious life during the time of the Judges (Judges 3:7), became widespread in Israel during the reign of Ahab (1 Kings 16:31-33) and also affected Judah (2 Chronicles 28:1-2). The word baal means “lord”; the plural is baalim. In general, Baal was a fertility god who was believed to enable the earth to produce crops and people to produce children. Different regions worshiped Baal in different ways, and Baal proved to be a highly adaptable god. Various locales emphasized one or another of his attributes and developed special “denominations” of Baalism. Baal of Peor (Numbers 25:3) and Baal-Berith (Judges 8:33) are two examples of such localized deities.
According to Canaanite mythology, Baal was the son of El, the chief god, and Asherah, the goddess of the sea. Baal was considered the most powerful of all gods, eclipsing El, who was seen as rather weak and ineffective. In various battles Baal defeated Yamm, the god of the sea, and Mot, the god of death and the underworld. Baal’s sisters/consorts were Ashtoreth, a fertility goddess associated with the stars, and Anath, a goddess of love and war. The Canaanites worshiped Baal as the sun god and as the storm god—he is usually depicted holding a lightning bolt—who defeated enemies and produced crops. They also worshiped him as a fertility god who provided children. Baal worship was rooted in sensuality and involved ritualistic prostitution in the temples. At times, appeasing Baal required human sacrifice, usually the firstborn of the one making the sacrifice (Jeremiah 19:5). The priests of Baal appealed to their god in rites of wild abandon which included loud, ecstatic cries and self-inflicted injury (1 Kings 18:28).
Before the Hebrews entered the Promised Land, the Lord God warned against worshiping Canaan’s gods (Deuteronomy 6:14-15), but Israel turned to idolatry anyway. During the reign of Ahab and Jezebel, at the height of Baal worship in Israel, God directly confronted the paganism through His prophet Elijah. First, God showed that He, not Baal, controlled the rain by sending a drought lasting three-and-one-half years (1 Kings 17:1). Then Elijah called for a showdown on Mt. Carmel to prove once and for all who the true God was. All day long, 450 prophets of Baal called on their god to send fire from heaven—surely an easy task for a god associated with lightning bolts—but “there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention” (1 Kings 18:29). After Baal’s prophets gave up, Elijah prayed a simple prayer, and God answered immediately with fire from heaven. The evidence was overwhelming, and the people “fell prostrate and cried, ‘The LORD–he is God! The LORD–he is God!’” (verse 39).
In Matthew 12:27, Jesus calls Satan “Beelzebub,” linking the devil to Baal-Zebub, a Philistine deity (2 Kings 1:2). The Baalim of the Old Testament were nothing more than demons masquerading as gods, and all idolatry is ultimately devil-worship (1 Corinthians 10:20).
jjotto is right here. While it is true that certain idols had some form of the word Baal in their names, the word has a number of separate meanings as a common noun. It is commonly found in references such as ba’al habayis=the master or owner of the house; ba’al in reference to a husband, as in the Friday night Lecho dodi prayer ending with the verse: Bo’i B’Shalom Ateres Ba’ala = come in Peace, crown of her husband; to achieve complete mastery of a text through memorizing, a person is said to know it ba’al peh.
This pattern is not unusual in Hebrew (or English for that matter). One of the names for G-d in the Torah is “Elo-him”, but the very same word is used to refer to idols, or to a a master and student relationship such as when Moses is told Aaron will be his spokesperson and he will be unto Aaron as an elohim (guide, master). So, even words refering to divinity can have more than one meaning.
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