Zadok's Heirs: The Role and Development of the High Priesthood in Ancient Israel (Oxford Theological Monographs) - Hardcover

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Rooke, Deborah W.

 
9780198269984: Zadok's Heirs: The Role and Development of the High Priesthood in Ancient Israel (Oxford Theological Monographs)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198269986 ISBN 13: 9780198269984
Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2000

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This unique study is the first systematic examination to be undertaken of the high priesthood in ancient Israel, from the earliest local chief priests in the pre-monarchic period down to the Hasmonaean priest-kings in the first century BCE. Dr Rooke argues that, contrary to received scholarly opinion, the high priesthood was fundamentally a religious office which in and of itself bestowed no civil responsibilities upon its holders, and that not until the time of the Maccabean revolt does the high priest appear as the sole figure of leadership for the nation. However, even the Maccabean / Hasmonaean high priesthood was effectively a reversion to the monarchic model of sacral kingship which had existed several centuries earlier in the pre-exilic period, rather than being an extension of the powers of the high priesthood itself. The idea that high priesthood per se bestowed the power to rule should therefore be reconsidered.

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Verlag
OUP Oxford
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0198269986
ISBN 13 
9780198269984
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Anzahl der Seiten
404
Herausgeber
Rooke Deborah W.
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