Priestly Rites and Prophetic Rage: Post-exilic Prophetic Critique of the Priesthood

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Mohr Siebeck, 2006 - 318 Seiten
Although Judah's prophets and priests often stood united in their concerns for the cult, many prophetic texts from the 6th and the 5th century BC testify to a major disagreement between them as to how to worship God. Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer analyzes the critique of the priests as found in the prophetic texts from that period. In these texts, the prophets accused the priests of misdemeanours in both the cultic and the social realm. The author further explores how the same prophets envisioned a more righteous priesthood. The earlier promises in Isaiah 40-55 form the background of this critique. Much of the post-exilic prophetic literature sought to explain the non-fulfilment of these promises. The author shows that the shared focus of most of these explanations is a culpable priesthood. She further demonstrates a different picture of the post-exilic priesthood from the one often previously assumed. Rather than attributing cultic monolatry to the post-exilic priests, reformed through their suffering following the destruction of Jerusalem, she shows that the emerging new clergy were not so very different from their pre-exilic predecessors. In addition, in contrast to the common assumption that the prophetic literature displays contradictory views, the author stresses the similarity between the thoughts and ideas displayed throughout Isaiah 56-66, Haggai, Zechariah 1-8 and Malachi.
 

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1016 Intermarriage or unorthodoxy
4
History of Research
5
Haggai and Zechariah 18
15
Conclusion
27
Zechariah 18
31
Foreign Alliance
33
The understanding of the verb
43
Conclusion
72
Conclusion
135
14 A flying scroll
143
Unorthodox Rites
149
34 Illicit sacrifices and forbidden food
160
Conclusion
177
Malachi
185
13 and Isaiah 618
215
Zechariah
239

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Haggai and Zechariah 18
80
Gods Injustice and the Priests Claim to Righteousness
86
The Priests Cultic Neglect
89
5 The priests professed holiness
97
76411 The priests lament
100
Introduction
102
Malachi
109
Preexilic critique of the priests teaching
115
19 The ideal and the real priest
127
The dream of a Cleansed Priesthood
248
A cleansed priesthood Malachi
256
Conclusion
263
6 The judgement in the temple
271
The Original Vision and its Modification
274
Three revolutionary views of the priesthood
284
Bibliography
291
Source Index
301
Author Index
315
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Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Born 1969; BA and MA in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; 2002 Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible at the University of Oxford; Lecturer in Hebrew Bible at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

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