Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dora Smith" <villandra AT austin.rr.com>]

Oh.  Light starts to dawn.  I came across that while reading, and I thought,
ho-hum.  But it makes a certain amount of sense.  Could be part of an old
tradition about who David was.

Could this have anything to do with the apparent split in how Moabites are
viewed in Exodus through Judges?   It appears bound to a split in the
priesthood, according to I think Frank Cross.

Waht I'm trying to do is to learn the history of the Yahweh cult.   Halpern
thinks DAvid pretty much imposed it on Israel in order to retain the loyalty
of his supporters.   Who weren't Israelite.   They were Gibeonite,
"Philistine", and maybe Moabite!   People of the Negev and the Judean
highlands which didn't even belong to Israel yet.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, Texas
villandra AT austin.rr.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
To: "Dora Smith" <villandra AT austin.rr.com>
Cc: "Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Aegean Ethnic determinatives
onPhilistineguardsofJudean kings in Kings and Samuel?


> His great-grandmother Ruth was a Moabite - if we trust accounts apart
> from which we know almost nothing of David.
>
> Dora, you make a good point that what mattered was not so much genetic
> descent as loyalty and faith in YHWH.
>
> --
> Peter Kirk