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Qos (deity)

Qos (Edomite: 𐤒𐤅‬‬𐤎 Qāws, later Qôs;[1] Hebrew: קוֹס‎ Qōs)[2] also Qaus (Akkadian: 𒋡𒍑 Qa-uš), or Koze (Greek: Kωζαι Kōzai) was the national god of the Edomites.[3] He was the Idumean structural parallel to Yahweh. The name occurs only twice in the Old Testament (if a possible allusion in an otherwise corrupted text in the Book of Proverbs is excluded)[4] in the Book of Ezra and Nehemiah as an element in a personal name, Barqos ("son of Qos"),[5] referring to the 'father' of a family or clan of perhaps Edomite/Idumaean nəṯīnīm or temple helpers returning from the Babylonian exile.[6][7] Outside the Bible, Qos is frequently invoked in names found on documents recovered from excavations in Elephantine, where a mixed population of Arabs, Jews and Idumeans lived under the protection of a Persian-Mesopotamian garrison.

  1. ^ W. Randall Garr (2004). Dialect Geography of Syria-Palestine, 1000-586 B.C.E. Eisenbrauns. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-57506-091-0. OCLC 1025228731.
  2. ^ Lévi Ngangura Manyanya. (2009). La fraternité de Jacob et d'Esaü (Gn 25-36): quel frère aîné pour Jacob? Labor et Fides, p.257.
  3. ^ Detlef Jericke. (2003). Abraham in Mamre: Historische und exegetische Studien zur Region von Hebron und zu Genesis 11, 27–19, 38, p.19. BRILL.
  4. ^ With a minimal adjustment of emendation Vriezen elicited from the corrupt אלקום (Proverbs, 30:31) an allusion to “the god Qos”. (Dicou 1994, p.177, n.1).
  5. ^ Ezra 2:53; Nehemiah 7:55.
  6. ^ E. A. Knauf. (1999). Qos [in] Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking, Pieter Willem van der Horst [eds.], Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, pp.674-677. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing: “This clan or family must have been of Edomite or Idumaean origin.” (p.677).
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference Smith was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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