Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Frank Moore Cross
• John T. Strong
• Steven S. Tuell

Titel

The Priestly Houses of Early Israel

Ist Teil von

• Constituting the Community, 2005, p.35

Ort / Verlag

Penn State University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [[195]] One of the pillars of Julius Wellhausen’s great synthesis of the history of Israelite religion was his reconstruction of the history of the priestood.¹ He sought to establish a threefold development of the priestly office to match the threefold patterns of the history of the place of worship, the evolution of the sacrifices, and the growth of the sacral feasts. There was (1) an early age when there was no fixed, hereditary priesthood, (2) the age of the kings when a Levitic priesthood began to emerge dominant in Jerusalem, and (3) the postexilic theocracy in which the Aaronids ruled