On Tue 9 Feb 99 (07:40:01 +0000), jwest AT highland.net wrote:
> Amazing that in a day when the monarchy and the other traditions of Israel
> are being pushed closer to the Maccabean era you attempt to shove it
> further into the past. But I would submit that not even the traditions
> of the Bible suggest that Joshua was a king.
Jim:
I wonder if Lloyd means the Joshua associated with Zerubbabel in
Zechariah chapters 3 and 4, and Haggai? (I ask this without having
surfed Lloyd's website). Joshua was crowned (TsaNiYPh), Zech 3:5, not
Zerubbabel. Whatever happened to Zerubbabel? Was he executed for high
treason, for crowning Joshua as a Davidic king (the Branch, TseMaC)?
Shalom,
Ben
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