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'Atimia: a Greek Parallel To Ezra X 8 and To Post-Biblical Exclusion From the Community

'Atimia: a Greek Parallel To Ezra X 8 and To Post-Biblical Exclusion From the Community 357 levitical connections. The new regime was established in a new place free from administrative and religious interference, while the spiritual focal point having been removed from Jerusalem did not return to its former location at Shechem but was sited in the ancient shrines of Bethel and Dan (1 Kgs. xii 29), neither of which are recorded as having contained levitical settlements. The Levites at Shechem were robbed in one stroke of their political and religious pre-eminence and as the Old Testament writer is silent about their fate it may be assumed that they never recovered from this skillful manoeuvre 1). Canterbury Nigel ALLAN 'ATIMIA: A GREEK PARALLEL TO EZRA X 8 AND TO POST-BIBLICAL EXCLUSION FROM THE COMMUNITY It is generally acknowledged that punitive banishment from the community-found first in Ezra x 8, and encountered later in rab- binic niddui and in exclusion from the yahad and the Essene commun- ity-has no substantial roots in Pentateuchal legislation 2). The ritually unclean and the leper are of course sent out of the camp, but their exclusion is the result of an objective condition and not an expression of social evaluation. Cain is condemned to wander the earth, a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vetus Testamentum Brill

'Atimia: a Greek Parallel To Ezra X 8 and To Post-Biblical Exclusion From the Community

Vetus Testamentum , Volume 24 (3): 357 – Jan 1, 1974

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© 1974 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0042-4935
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1568-5330
DOI
10.1163/156853374X00288
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Abstract

357 levitical connections. The new regime was established in a new place free from administrative and religious interference, while the spiritual focal point having been removed from Jerusalem did not return to its former location at Shechem but was sited in the ancient shrines of Bethel and Dan (1 Kgs. xii 29), neither of which are recorded as having contained levitical settlements. The Levites at Shechem were robbed in one stroke of their political and religious pre-eminence and as the Old Testament writer is silent about their fate it may be assumed that they never recovered from this skillful manoeuvre 1). Canterbury Nigel ALLAN 'ATIMIA: A GREEK PARALLEL TO EZRA X 8 AND TO POST-BIBLICAL EXCLUSION FROM THE COMMUNITY It is generally acknowledged that punitive banishment from the community-found first in Ezra x 8, and encountered later in rab- binic niddui and in exclusion from the yahad and the Essene commun- ity-has no substantial roots in Pentateuchal legislation 2). The ritually unclean and the leper are of course sent out of the camp, but their exclusion is the result of an objective condition and not an expression of social evaluation. Cain is condemned to wander the earth, a

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Vetus TestamentumBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1974

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