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Out with the Old Moses, In with the New Joshua

By David Larsen | Published: May 6, 2010
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 King-God [...]
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The Suppression of Ancient Truths

By David Larsen | Published: July 12, 2008
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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