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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Tammuz (A male deity in the Old Testament)
In Ezekiel's vision the women sit at the temple's north gate weeping for Tammuz. He was the Mesopotamian god of shepherds and growing things, Dumuzi to the Sumerians, and the weeping mourned his yearly death.
In Ezekiel's vision the women sit at the temple's north gate weeping for Tammuz. He was the Mesopotamian god of shepherds and growing things, Dumuzi to the Sumerians, and the weeping mourned his yearly death.
Tammuz was the Mesopotamian god of shepherds and vegetation, known to the Sumerians as Dumuzi and identified by later writers with the Greek Adonis. Ezekiel condemns the women of Jerusalem for sitting at the temple's north gate “weeping for Tammuz” (Ezekiel 8:14), a rite mourning the god's yearly death and descent to the underworld. The name was later applied to the fourth month of the Hebrew civil calendar, corresponding to parts of June and July.
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- Ezekiel 8:14
