Descent of the Goddess Ishtar to the Netherworld and Nahum II 8

Author: Pinker, Aron

Source: Vetus Testamentum, Volume 55, Number 1, 2005 , pp. 89-100(12)

Publisher: BRILL

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Abstract:

Nahum depicts in ii 8 Nineveh's desperate appeal to Ishtar to ward off its attackers by enacting her descent to the Netherworld to save her beloved Tammuz. In this context, the problematic words refer to the erection of Ishtar's statue in some public place and its denuding by Allatu (the Sumero-Babylonian goddess Ereŝki-gal), assuming that = "the Allatu."

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568533053713695

Publication date: 2005-03-01