Resheph (also Reshef and many other variants, see below; Eblaite 𒀭𒊏𒊓𒀊, Rašap, Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎌𐎔, ršp, Egyptian ršpw, Phoenician: 𐤓‬𐤔‬𐤐‬, ršp, Hebrew: רֶשֶׁף ‎ Rešep̄) was a god associated with war and plague, originally worshiped in Ebla in the third millennium BCE.

Resheph, ancient West Semitic god of the plague and of the underworld, the companion of Anath, and the equivalent of the Babylonian god Nergal. He was also a war god and was thus represented as a bearded man brandishing an ax, holding a shield, and wearing a tall, pointed headdress with a goat’s or gazelle’s head on his forehead.

Resheph was an important god in the Aramaic pantheon of the eighth century B.C.E. (see, e.g., the inscription of Panammu I; H. Donner and W. Roellig, Kanaanaeische und aramaeische Inschriften, 1 (1967), p. 38 no. 214: 1, where the divine names Hadad and El …

In Ugaritic texts Resheph is the god or gatekeeper of the underworld, as well as the god of war and pestilence, which he spreads with his bow and arrow. He is mentioned twice in the epic of Keret.

Reshep (Resheph, Rahshaf, Rasap, Rashap, Resep, Reshef, Reshpu) was a Syrian plague and war god whose worship in Egypt dates from around the Eighteenth Dynasty. Because of his martial skills, he was closely associated with the pharaoh in battle.

In the Hebrew Bible Resheph is mentioned 7 times. Here we will examine the nature of Resheph in the Hebrew Bible. We will demonstrate that Resheph has several meanings; among them “pestilence,” “arrow,” and “fire.” Each occurrence has the …

2024年12月6日 · Resheph, known by various names such as Reshef, Rašap, and Rešep̄, was a prominent deity in the ancient Near East. Associated primarily with war and plague, Resheph’s worship spanned multiple civilizations and millennia, …

Artistic representations and references show that he was lord of the underworld, the god of war and pestilence. In the Keret epic he is the god of plague or mass destruction. According to W. F. Albright he is closely related to the Babylonian Nergal and was identified by the Greeks with Apollo (Archaeology and the Religion of Israel [1942], 79).

Resheph was a god associated with war and plague, originally worshiped in Ebla in the third millennium BCE. He was one of the main members of the local pantheon...

RESHEPH (Heb. רֶשֶׁף), Canaanite "netherworld" god of the pest (appearing as an element in Mari and Sargonic personal names; see Huffmon, in bibl.).