Biblical Hebrew Forum

[George F Somsel <gfsomsel AT juno.com>]

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 18:27:10 +0100 Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
writes:
> On 23/04/2005 18:25, George F Somsel wrote:
> >
> >I tend to think that you're trying to sanitize the account from a 
> modern
> >Christian perspective.  It would appear from the return to the them 
> of
> >famine/plenty in the resolution of the famine through the harvest 
> this
> >puts God's imprimitur upon it.
> >
> No, I don't think so. God demanded that something was done about 
> this 
> sin. In the Hebrew Bible context, according to Leviticus, sins could 
> be 
> dealt with by sacrifice, but sometimes various different sacrifices 
> 
> could be made. David had a choice of what sacrifice to make. He 
> chose in 
> effect a human sacrifice, and that sacrifice was enough to atone for 
> the 
> sin. But the sin could have been atoned for in other ways - perhaps 
> by 
> silver and gold, perhaps by animal sacrifices as well.
> 
> -- 
> Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
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Where do you find that in the text?  It seems to me that silver and gold
are explictly ruled out of court.

george
gfsomsel
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