Horeb
The Horeb ( Heb. חורב“Wasteland, desert area”) is the “God's mountain” in the Bible , where Moses meets the God YHWH ( Ex 3 EU ).
research
It is uncertain whether Mount Horeb was identical to the biblical Mount Sinai or was later equated with it.
The land of Midian , in which Mount Horeb was located according to Ex 3.1, is located in the Bible only in an approximate direction southeast of Canaan in the mountainous desert . Research therefore assumes that the area was in the north-western part of what is now Saudi Arabia, east of the Gulf of Aqaba , with attempts to identify the Jabal al-Lauz or the Hala l-Badr with the Horeb.
Perhaps the Midianite mountain of God did not have a specific name, and Horeb was simply another name for the mountain on which the Israelites later received the laws.
Hebrew Bible
At Horeb, Moses is said to have knocked water out of the rock ( Ex 17.5 f EU ).
In the later biblical reports, Horeb then appears after the divine judgment against the Baal priests on Mount Carmel ( 1 Kings 18 EU ) as Elijah's place of refuge from the vengeful Queen Jezebel ( 1 Kings 19 EU ). In contrast to the Revelation of Moses, God does not appear here in the forces of nature (storm, earthquake, fire), but in a gentle whisper, as a result of which the prophet receives his commission.
New Testament
The Gospel of John ( John 4,10 EU ) tells of Jesus as the source of living water. This “living water” will later be identified in church history with the Holy Spirit and related to Christian baptism .
In typological connection with prophecy, the end-time teachings of Jesus were later placed in the New Testament as preaching for all Israel on an unknown mountain in Galilee ( Sermon on the Mount, Mt 5–7).
In chapter 4 EU in Galatians an allegory is made between Mount Horeb or Sinai and Mount Zion , i.e. the Temple Mount in Jerusalem , in which the Torah on Sinai was given to the people of Israel, but the liberation from the Torah in Jerusalem with the Self-sacrifice of Jesus, d. H. by whose crucifixion by the Romans, was bought.
See also
- List of geographical and ethnographic names in the Bible
- Radio Horeb , Catholic radio station
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ex 3.1
- ↑ Ernst Würthwein : 1st Kings. 17 - 2nd Kings 25 . Part 2. Volume 11 of Das Alte Testament Deutsch, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1977, ISBN 978-3-525-51152-7 , p. 277 f.