Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dr. Reinhard G.Lehmann" <lehmann AT mail.uni-mainz.de>]

I think it is - under the following conditions:

1. if you take *David* here as a symbol for a certain time and a certain step 
in the development of ancient israelite religion, and not as an individual 
who did it.

2. if you assume that it does not depend on the establishment of (davidic) 
kingship, but on the infiltration of old Jerusalem (?) with a new kind of 
religion.

3. if you admit that it is not a case of forgery, but an early example of 
*contextual theology*, i.e. the attempt to make a certain new religious 
thought clear to someone who actually did not have the premiss to understand 
it.

Maybe it works that way.

Best regards
reinhard


Lloyd Barre schrieb:

> Dear List Members:
>
> Do you think it is conceivable that the alleged family relationship between 
> (El) Elyon and Yahweh was forged when the Yahwist David established his 
> kingship in Jerusalem, the traditional home of both Melchizedek and of El 
> Elyon?

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