Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 20/02/2006 21:47, tladatsi AT charter.net wrote:
> Yes but my point was that they were worshiping Yahweh, not some other god.  
> This line of priests in Dan were Yahwehists and not Aaronide.  That is the 
> only point.
>
>   
And my point is that Jeroboam's priests in Dan and Bethel may also have 
been "Yahwehists" in that they were worshipping Yahweh, whom they 
represented as a bull - of course not recognising the commandment 
against graven images. This is what Aaron did with the original golden 
calf, for to him worshipping it was a festival to Yahweh, Exodus 32:5,6. 
And the close parallels between this golden calf and Jeroboam's ones are 
not accidental.

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