Mount Horeb

The Horeb (Hebrew חורב " wasteland, desert area " ) in the Bible is the " mountain of God ", in which Moses the God YHWH met ( Ex 3 EU).

Research

Whether the Mount Horeb was identical to the biblical Mount Sinai and was later equated with him, is uncertain. The Bible research suggested that behind the story of the burning bush was a mountain sanctuary of the Midianites who worshiped a volcano or weather god by the name of YHWH there. Moses could then learn this deity of Jethro, the priest, as God of his people and identified with the nameless gods of the fathers Hebrew tribes (2 Mos 18.10-12 LUT). After announcement of the Torah at Sinai, this mountain may have been linked to Moses with the place of God's revelation. You may be wearing the mountain of God, the Midianites but also no specific name, and Horeb was simply another name for the mountain on which the Israelites later received the law.

Hebrew Bible

At Horeb Moses water is forced out of its rocks have (Ex 17,5 f EU).

In the later prophetic tradition of the northern kingdom of Israel Horeb appears, according to the judgment of God against the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18), as a refuge Elijah before the vengeful Queen Jezebel (1 Kings 19). Here is said in deliberate contrast to the Sinai revelation that God nor yet appear in a storm in the earthquake in the fire, but in the inner voice that moved the prophets to engage in the politics of his people. For the first time he is a foreign king for God's instrument for the humiliation of his apostate people anoint (1 Kings 19.11-18 ).

So Horeb was a symbol of the vocation of the solitary prophet of God, who appeared possibly also against the rulers.

New Testament

The Gospel of John (John 4:10) tells of Jesus as the source of living water. This " living water " is church history later identified with the Holy Spirit and in relation to Christian baptism.

In typological attachment to the prophecy and the eschatological teachings of Jesus as a proclamation for all Israel was later in the New Testament to an unknown mountain in Galilee located ( Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5-7).

In Galatians is in Chap. 4 is an allegory between Mount Horeb or Sinai, and Mount Zion, so the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, established, in which the Torah at Sinai was given to Israel, but the liberation of the Torah in Jerusalem with the human sacrifice of Jesus, ie was purchased. whose crucifixion by the Romans.