Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] King Josiah's Exciting Discovery
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:36:01 -0800
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:58 PM, <jimstinehart AT aol.com> wrote:
[snip]
> If the
> high priest Hilkiah could read that holy work himself, why would he give it
> to the scribe Shaphan to read, when the scribe usually handled secular
> matters, whereas the priest handled religious matters?
[snip]
I don't know where you got this idea that there was such a sharp
division between religious and secular matters, but it's so
anachronistic I don't know where to begin. Perhaps some basic reading
on the function of a scribe in ancient Israel might be a good project,
because it might project you from coming up with something this
absurd.
Now I remember why I usually don't read your material.