Restored Hope? The Function of the Temple, Priest, and Cult as Restoration in the Book of the Twelve
This article offers a cursory overview of the role of cult within the first half (eighth-century block, Hosea-Micah) of the Book of the Twelve, in an attempt to lay a foundation for examining the cult in the book's concluding Persian Period (Haggai-Malachi). This study addresses the idea of res...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2017]
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| In: |
Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 2017, Volume: 41, Issue: 4, Pages: 493-510 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Minor Prophets
/ Jerusalem
/ Temple
/ Priest
/ Cult
/ Restorations, Political
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Joel
Hosea
Amos
Micah
Cult
Temple
Zion
Prophets
Restoration
Book of the Twelve
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| Summary: | This article offers a cursory overview of the role of cult within the first half (eighth-century block, Hosea-Micah) of the Book of the Twelve, in an attempt to lay a foundation for examining the cult in the book's concluding Persian Period (Haggai-Malachi). This study addresses the idea of restoration, in particular how the prophets' vision of restoration relates to their own understanding of the role of cult. In other words, when the prophets envision a restored Temple (or Zion), what is the role of the cult in that restoration? This study demonstrates that the details of a restored cult prove surprisingly limited, and that this should make readers reconsider how to understand both prophetic critique and prophetic views of repentance and restoration in the Twelve. Such answers may conflict with the concluding books of the Twelve. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-6728 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0309089216670543 |