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By Pekka Pitkänen

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This booklet presents the 1st significant reinvestigation and reinterpretation of the historical past of centralization of worship in historic Israel because de Wette and Wellhausen within the 19th century. in keeping with those students' vintage interpretation of the heritage and theology of centralization of worship in old Israel, outdated testomony scholarship has so far trusted the consensus that the booklet of Deuteronomy is the made from overdue monarchic Judah (7th century BC). Pitkanen locations the biblical fabric in its archaeological and historical close to japanese context and will pay distinctive consciousness to rhetorical research. After analyzing the Pentateuchal altar legislation and the function of the vital sanctuary in the course of the premonarchical interval within the biblical resources, the writer concludes that Shiloh used to be the vital sanctuary for many of the premonarchical interval. even if, the tested assets point out that there has been no critical sanctuary, and no centralization requirement through the earliest days of the payment within the land of Israel, nor after the lack of the ark to the Philistines at Aphek (1 Sam 4). Combining those insights with literary and rhetorical research of the publication of Joshua, the writer means that the e-book of Joshua, in addition to its resources (such as Deuteronomy) can have originated as early as sooner than the catastrophe of Aphek and the rejection of Shiloh.

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Wellhausen delimits the JEDP sources according to their literary style and thought world into internally consistent sources which attest differing views of centralization and different stages of religious development. On the other hand, these sources were put together by the final redactor(s) to form the finished version of the Pentateuch without any concern that these differing views might be contradictory. Cf. Whybray 1987, pp. 120-126 for a criticism of this approach. 41 1 Ki 17-2 Ki 2. ) 10 10 CENTRAL SANCTUARY knew Deuteronomy, he may have had a logically consistent reason for not criticizing Samuel for sacrificing at bamoth.

Wellhausen delimits the JEDP sources according to their literary style and thought world into internally consistent sources which attest differing views of centralization and different stages of religious development. On the other hand, these sources were put together by the final redactor(s) to form the finished version of the Pentateuch without any concern that these differing views might be contradictory. Cf. Whybray 1987, pp. 120-126 for a criticism of this approach. 41 1 Ki 17-2 Ki 2. ) 10 10 CENTRAL SANCTUARY knew Deuteronomy, he may have had a logically consistent reason for not criticizing Samuel for sacrificing at bamoth.

Therefore, any material in the books of Kings (and similarly, in any other book) which attests the concerns of centralization must be contemporaneous with or later than the time of Josiah, and any material which does not attest centralization must be earlier than the time of Josiah. (B) All material which attests the concerns of centralization is contemporaneous with or later than the time of Josiah, and all material which does not attest the concerns of centralization is earlier than the time of Josiah.

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