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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Pi-beseth
Ezekiel says its young men will fall by the sword. The Greeks called it Bubastis, a city in the eastern Nile Delta and the center of worship for the cat goddess Bastet.
Ezekiel says its young men will fall by the sword. The Greeks called it Bubastis, a city in the eastern Nile Delta and the center of worship for the cat goddess Bastet.
Pi-beseth, called Bubastis by the Greeks, was an Egyptian city in the eastern Nile Delta and the center of worship for the cat goddess Bastet. Ezekiel 30:17 pairs it with On (Heliopolis) in a prophecy that its young men would fall by the sword and the city go into captivity, part of a broader oracle against Egypt. Herodotus, writing in the fifth century BC, described Bubastis's annual festival as the most popular in all Egypt, and the site, now called Tell Basta, has been excavated since the nineteenth century, uncovering the remains of Bastet's temple that he described.
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- ruins at Tell Basteh
- Ezekiel 30:17
