Jehu's Ritual Pollution of Samaria's Temple Compared with Lachish's 'Gate Shrine' Toilet
Jehu’s desecration of Samaria’s Baal temple (2 Kgs 10,18-28) finds archaeological comparison recently with the discovery of Lachish Level III’s 'gate shrine' toilet. Excavations reveal ritual pollution of a gate shrine by the sealing of a toilet inside the chamber during Hezekiah’s reform...
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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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2021
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Biblica
Year: 2021, Volume: 102, Issue: 1, Pages: 45-67 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Könige 2. 10,18-28
/ Jehu Israel, King ca. 845 BC-818 BC
/ Samaria
/ Lakhish (City)
/ Sanctuary
/ Contamination
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HH Archaeology |
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| Summary: | Jehu’s desecration of Samaria’s Baal temple (2 Kgs 10,18-28) finds archaeological comparison recently with the discovery of Lachish Level III’s 'gate shrine' toilet. Excavations reveal ritual pollution of a gate shrine by the sealing of a toilet inside the chamber during Hezekiah’s reform (2 Kgs 18,4). Likewise, Jehu’s revolt defiled Samaria’s Baal temple by turning the sanctuary into a latrine and ritually desecrating the holy place with human excreta. By the end of the eighth century BCE, ritual pollution by latrine association seems to have altered slightly, with Lachish’s 'toilet ceremony' developing from Jehu’s older practice approximately 140 years earlier. |
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| ISSN: | 2385-2062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/BIB.102.1.3289353 |