Gashmu

Gaschmu (also: Geschem ) is a biblical figure.

In the book of Nehemiah , Gashmu is called an Arab. Together with Sanballat and the Ammonite Tobija he tried the one from Nehemiah about 445 BC. To prevent the reconstruction of the Jerusalem city wall initiated by the 3rd century BC ( Neh 2,19 EU and Neh 6 EU ). Furthermore, he accused Nehemiah of wanting to fall away from the Persian great king .

Gashmu is possibly identical with a person of the same name who is named as the “King of Qedar” in an inscription on the so-called “ Tell el-Maschuta bowls”: “ This is what Qaynu, son of Gashmu, King of Qedar, for Han-'Ilat . “The inscription is dated around 400 BC. BC, so that Gashmu, as the father of the donor Qaynu, probably lived around the time of Nehemiah.

Another Lihyan inscription from al-'Ula also names a person named Gashmu, although their identification with the aforementioned Gashmu is rather doubtful.

literature

Antonin Jaussen, Raphaël Savignac: Mission archéologique en Arabie (= Publications de la Société Française des Fouilles Archéologiques. Vol. 2, ZDB -ID 275254-2 ). Volume 2: El-'Ela, d'Hégra à Teima, Harrah de Tebouk. Geuthner, Paris 1914, no.349.
Frederick V. Winnett: A Study of the Lihyanite and Thamudic Inscriptions (= University of Toronto. Oriental Series. Vol. 3, ISSN 0834-6054 ). University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1937.
Isaac Rabinowitz: Aramaic Inscriptions of the Fifth Century BCE from a North-Arab Shrine in Egypt. In: Journal of Near Eastern Studies . Vol. 15, No. 1, 1956, ISSN 0022-2968 , pp. 1-9.
William J. Dumbrell: The Tell-el-Maskhuta Bowls and the "Kingdom" of Qedar in the Persian Period. In: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research . (BASOR). No. 203, 1971, pp. 33-44.

Web links

Ulrich Hübner on Gaschmu / Geschem in the article Ismael / Ismaeliter In: WiBiLex

Individual evidence

^ Isaac Rabinowitz: Aramaic Inscription of the Fifth Century BCE from A North-Arab Shrine in Egypt. In: Journal of Near Eastern Studies . Vol. 15, No. 1, 1956, pp. 1-9.
^ Lester L. Grabbe: A history of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period. Volume 1: Yehud. A History of the Persian Province of Judah (= Library of Second Temple Studies. Vol. 47). T & T Clark, London a. a. 2004, ISBN 0-567-08998-3 , p. 164.

[1] Isaac Rabinowitz: Aramaic Inscription of the Fifth Century BCE from A North-Arab Shrine in Egypt. In: Journal of Near Eastern Studies . Vol. 15, No. 1, 1956, pp. 1-9.

[2] Lester L. Grabbe: A history of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period. Volume 1: Yehud. A History of the Persian Province of Judah (= Library of Second Temple Studies. Vol. 47). T & T Clark, London a. a. 2004, ISBN 0-567-08998-3 , p. 164.