In several places in Isaiah 56-66 a group of Israelites is accused of engaging in various forms of aberrant religious practice: the sacrifice of children, the eating of swine, participation in fertility rites, the practice of necromancy, offering sacrifice to deities known as Gad and Meni, and a host of other things. Who are these people? Certainly not the Zadokite priesthood, as Paul Hanson claimed in his The Dawn of Apocalyptic. More likely argues Schramm, they are simply traditional syncretistic Yahwists.
| ISBN: | 9780567102140 |
| Publication date: | 1st November 2009 |
| Author: | Brooks Schramm |
| Publisher: | Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 216 pages |
| Series: | The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies |
| Genres: |
Christianity Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts |