The Priestly Asherah
It is proposed that the priestly story of Aaron's flowering staff (Num 17:16-26) is an etiology for the asherah in Solomon's temple (2 Kgs 21:3, 7; 23:4, 6, 7). The staff as described is closely similar both in form and in function to the asherah. This proposition accounts for the absence...
| Published in: | Vetus Testamentum |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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| In: |
Vetus Testamentum
Year: 2019, Volume: 69, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-45 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Numeri 17,16-26
/ Priestly document
/ Temple (Jerusalem)
/ asherah
/ Cultic object
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Aaron
B Asherah B Staff B Kuntillet Ajrud B tree B Priestly |
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| Summary: | It is proposed that the priestly story of Aaron's flowering staff (Num 17:16-26) is an etiology for the asherah in Solomon's temple (2 Kgs 21:3, 7; 23:4, 6, 7). The staff as described is closely similar both in form and in function to the asherah. This proposition accounts for the absence of hostility towards asherim in the priestly literature, and it generates a solution to the age-old problem of why Moses and Aaron were denied entry into the promised land (Num 20:1-13, 24; 27:14; Deut 32:51). |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5330 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Vetus Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685330-12341355 |