RT Article
T1 The Priestly Asherah
JF Vetus Testamentum
VO 69
IS 1
SP 33
OP 45
A1 Aikhler, Raʿanan 1980-
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1683939697
AB 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).
K1 Aaron
K1 Kuntillet ‘Ajrud
K1 Asherah
K1 Priestly
K1 Staff
K1 tree
DO 10.1163/15685330-12341355