Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Peter:

Jereboam had just returned from living in Egypt for 
several years, so he picked up the worship of Apis 
from there, just as Aaron had years earlier. Hence 
the similarity.

As for other places where there were non-Aaronic 
priests, they were not considered legitimate by the 
priestly clan. For one, they did not worship YHWH 
in the manner that YHWH commanded, i.e. they set up 
idols and sometimes called them by YHWH's name or 
called them by their proper pagan names, further 
they practiced a very common religious practice of 
syncretism, strongly condemned as in, for example 
at the showdown on Mount Carmel, Elijah's 
condemnation of worshipping both YHWH and Baal. 
Further, because these were written long after 
Torah with its rules concerning who was to be a 
priest and how he was to worship, to have David 
appoint his sons as priests or any other non-
Aaronic priesthood goes against the context of 
the whole text.

Karl W. Randolph.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "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.
> 
> --
> Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/

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