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Naked Bible Podcast Episode 112 – Ezekiel 1
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The episode is live, here.
Short version: It wasn’t a UFO.
The iconography tells them who’s in control. The message tells them what he’s going to do — what’s the sovereign is going to do.
The second one takes us (again) back into the issue of when the Torah (or parts of the Torah) were composed. Another very perceptive question. One *would* expect Moses (Egyptian context) to use an Egyptian word, like seraf (divine cobra/serpent throne guardian), but that isn’t the case. Instead we get a word drawn from Akkadian (a Mesopotamian / Babylonian context), which suggests the statement was composed during the exile.
Granted, that supposition isn’t certain, nor is it certain that Moses could not have known karub. Akkadian was the lingua franca of the ancient Near East during the New Kingdom in Egypt, so it’s quite possible Moses could have known the word karub.
It just hit me… Do you think the watchers sinning against animals in 1 Enoch 7.5 has to do with them entertaining their fantasy to be worshiped as divine and thus needing their own throne guardians (similar to what YHWH has in Ezekiel 1) like what we see in Babylonian, Greek etc. mythology?
I don’t think so.