Sign Up. Apply Discount. Want information about taking a tour? Go to gtitours. Central Ave Zeeland, MI Artemis of the Ephesians. Who was Artemis The supposed goddess of fertility Who worshipped her? She was probably the most worshiped deity in Asia and perhaps the world during Paul's time. What was worship like? Hundreds of eunuch priests, virgin priestesses, and religious prostitutes served her.
Worship rituals were quite erotic. By what other names was Artemis known? Pentecost Sunday commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ while they were in Jerusalem celebrating the Feast of Weeks, as described in the Acts of the Apostles. Table of Contents. We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. Do not sell my personal information. Cookie Settings Accept.
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The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. He [Paul] wrote to the Ephesians who worshipped Diana.
Translated by Heine As part of the procession, there were horses, hunting dogs and hunting equipment. She also carried bows and javelins, and her hunting dogs followed.
If so, this makes him a contemporary of Paul. Each of these goddesses has an individual identity and a distinct cult, but a few may have had some connection with Artemis Ephesia. Clement of Alexandria identifies some of these other goddesses with odd-sounding epithets :. Clement also identifies a Tauric Artemis in chapter 3 and the Ephesian Artemis in chapter 4.
The Ephesian Artemis was the most well known of these goddesses in the first century AD, and should not be confused or conflated with other goddesses called Artemis who copied either the Greek or Ephesian Artemis. Furthermore, there was an Artemis worshipped by the Macedonians well before the Hellenistic period BC.
The Seleucid kings introduced this goddess to the lands they controlled. It was previously thought, however, that Artemis of Ephesus had some similarities with ancient mother goddesses. The mother goddess is one of the oldest and most pervasive religious concepts of the ancient Near and Middle East, and she was regarded as the universal mother of all life. In Phrygia, the mother goddess was called Cybele.
The Ephesian Artemis is sometimes too closely compared with the Phrygian Cybele. Cybele was just one of many gods and goddesses worshipped in Ephesus. In Syria, the mother goddess was called Atargatis. In Babylon and Assyria, she was called Ishtar. In Phoenicia, she was called Astarte. In archaic Canaan, she was called Asherah, a name that appears frequently in the Old Testament. The ancient Israelites worshipped Asherah and her consort Baal when they fell into pagan idolatry.
This Canaanite goddess embodied fertility, and some scholars believe sacred sexual intercourse was a ritual in which divine propagation of life was portrayed. In the Old Testament, pagan practices meshed with orthodox worship practices in which shrine prostitutes became involved. See 2 Kings ; also 1 Kings ; Gen. Scholars have debated whether ritual prostitution was part of the Artemis cult, but there is simply no evidence for such a practice. The reason given for this catastrophe was that Artemis was away from her city and acting as midwife in the delivery of Alexander the Great who was born on the same night.
In his Life of Alexander 3. In an ode to Artemis, written in the third century BC by Greek poet Callimachus, Artemis speaks and explains why she is called upon during labour. On the mountains will I dwell and the cities of men I will visit only when women vexed by the sharp pang of childbirth call me to their aid even in the hour when I was born the Fates ordained that I should be their helper, forasmuch as my mother suffered no pain either when she gave me birth or when she carried me win her womb, but without travail put me from her body.
Part of Artemis mythology, of both the Greek and Ephesian Artemis, is that the goddess delivered her twin brother, Apollo. There is even a Christian source that mentions the role of Artemis as midwife. See endnote 7 also. See endnote 3 also. Devotion and affection for Artemis is portrayed especially in the Ephesus-centred novels by Xenophon and Achilles Tatius. It is also attested to in the numerous devotional inscriptions.
Ephesus has been well studied, and there is a wealth of ancient documents and inscriptions concerning the city that survive to the present day. Paul Trebilco has estimated that over inscriptions have been discovered on the site of ancient Ephesus. Writing just over a decade later, S. Baugh estimates that we have approximately inscriptions from Ephesus.
As well as Paul, many well-known New Testament figures ministered at Ephesus. Priscilla and Aquila had a house church there. Apollos and Timothy ministered there. Towards the end of their lives, the apostle John and perhaps Mary the mother of Jesus lived at Ephesus. Tradition holds that both were buried there. It is believed that John wrote his gospel from Ephesus. The six words are provided by Clement of Alexandria in his Stromata 5. Because there was no apparent meaning to the words, even in antiquity, they fostered intense speculation.
Yet they were used both orally and in written form to ward off evil, and to bring protection and safety or salvation. Strelan ff , however, disputes that Ephesus was a centre of the magic arts.
Become a Patron! At Home with Priscilla and Aquila. Leadership roles has not been given by God throughout the Bible after the fall see Genesis Out of the 66 Books of the Bible, no woman wrote even one book.
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