Hamor
Hamor ( Hebrew חֲמוֹר Ḥamôr , proper noun; but also "donkey") is a man mentioned by name in the Torah or in the Old Testament of the Hiwiter and descendant of a son of Canaan .
The story in the Bible
Hamor was a large landowner - many historians also suspect a king - in Shechem , a small town that Jacob also passed on his way to Canaan . Jacob bought a field from Hamor for 100 gold pieces and began to camp there with his family and his tribe.
Hamor's son, who was also called Shechem, began to lust after Jacob's daughter, Dina , and raped her at the first opportunity. Shechem then asked Dina to be his wife, a matter that Hamor discussed with Jacob. Jacob consented, provided that all of her husbands must be circumcised . Marriage with the Hivites is only possible through the outward sign of the covenant with God . Hamor agreed.
Three days after the circumcision - the men were still suffering from the resulting wound fever - Simeon and Levi , Jacob's second and third eldest sons, attacked the city and killed all the inhabitants, including Hamor.
On the land that Jacob had bought from Hamor, nearly 500 years later became, after the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and the conquest by Joshua , Jacob's second youngest son Josef find his final resting place.
reception
In the 1995 Bible adaptation " The Bible - Josef ", the German Arthur Brauss portrayed Hamor.
Web links
- Verena Bunsch: Hamor. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.
literature
Hostetter, Edwin C. . In: Anchor Bible Dictionary (ABD). Volume 3, Doubleday, New York / London 1992, ISBN 0-385-19361-0 , pp. 42-43.