Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Rabshakeh vs. Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:19-22)
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 09:10:56 +0930
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 17:03:57 +0100, "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
said:
But
> then the chief butler's misunderstanding is not surprising since his
> culture presumably had no concept of a god who should be worshipped only
> at one single sanctuary. But this is what YHWH had asked for, at least
> according to the Torah, and was the attested practice from the time of
> the Exodus at least until Solomon's day, although the location of the
> central sanctuary varied from time to time.
>
>From the Exodus on? I may be wrong, but I don't think your summation is
correct. Was the central sanctuary ever authorised at Gilgal where
Samuel inaugurated the Kingship (1 Sam 10-1 Sam 11)? Or at Bethel?
Maybe you can tell me whether the ark was sometimes at Gilgal or Bethel?
Amos didn't seem to think that these places were kosher.