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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gomes, Jules Francis

Titel

The Sanctuary of Bethel and the Configuration of Israelite Identity

Ort / Verlag

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter

Erscheinungsjahr

[2012]

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Dissertation
• After Jerusalem, Bethel is the most frequently cited sanctuary in the Hebrew Bible. The book offers a detailed analysis of Bethel and its sanctuary from archaeological and biblical evidence. It reconstructs the history of Bethel and by analysing the presence of pro- and anti-Bethel propaganda, it argues that the latter, with its own pro-Jerusalem/Judah bias, has resulted in an unfair denigration of Bethel as an idolatrous place of worship. The study suggests that Bethel was a legitimate Yahwistic shrine and continued to be so even after the fall of the Northern Kingdom of Israel to the Assyrians. Hence, Bethel in a real sense was the principal means of configuring Israelite identity