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Ancient Israelite Religious Reformation (OT Lesson 30)

2 Chronicles 29-30; 32; 34 (2 Kgs 18-19; 22-23) The Sunday School curriculum calls this lesson “Come to the House of the Lord.” This is an appropriate title for this block of scripture, as the narrative here relates how kings Hezekiah and Josiah of Judah cleansed the Temple of Jerusalem of all the alleged idolatrous [...]
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Out with the Old Moses, In with the New Joshua

Musings on Deuteronomy/Joshua (Old Testament Lessons 17 and 18) As I was studying recently about the “transfer of power” from the prophet Moses to his young aide, Joshua, it hit me that there was a similarity in this motif with the ideas presented in a paper by Julian Morgenstern  that I recently read called “The [...]
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The Suppression of Ancient Truths

In this post, there is a key idea that I want to focus on from my post “How Many Judaisms.” This is the notion that the “mainstream” form of Judaism in the postexilic period, rather than being a direct representation of more ancient Israelite religion, was, in fact, involved in the suppression of ancient truths.This [...]
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