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  • From: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] David's sons were priests?
  • Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 05:36:59 +0200


Actually, 1 Chr. 18:17 already changed it to "and David's sons were first at
the hand of the king", meaning that they were his chief aides.
What 2 Sam. 8:18 shows, is that the idea of an exclusively Aaronide (or even
Levitical) priesthood is a later development. The fact that Sam. admits that
David could appoint his own sons to the priesthood shows how loyal the
author of Sam. was to his sources. The fact that Chr. and the Greek changed
the text, shows that by the early second Temple period, a non-Aaronide
serving as a priest was simply unthinkable!

Yigal


----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
To: "Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 6:08 PM
Subject: [b-hebrew] David's sons were priests?


B-Hebrew haberim:

1 Samuel 8:18 has puzzled me for years, as it seems
to say that David, a man after God's own heart, was
violating God's command that the priesthood be
limited to the descendants of Aaron and conferring
it to his sons. Even the pointing indicates that
reading.

I don't think this reading is right.

The LXX gives a reading that, from parsing the
word, seems to say that David's sons were in charge
of accounting or something like that.

Are there any variant readings that would indicate
a different meaning?

Could a different set of dots give the meaning that
David's sons became as those in charge of the
resources, i.e. accounting the wealth of the booty
and country?

Any thoughts?

Karl W. Randolph.


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