{"id":42308,"date":"2014-12-18T21:30:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T21:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42308"},"modified":"2014-12-18T21:30:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T21:30:33","slug":"phineas-priesthood-2a-back-in-the-old-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42308","title":{"rendered":"Phineas Priesthood 2a: back in the old days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; who was admittedly more concerned with champagne than cuneiform as a student ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the old days, this is how it was:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SPEC-DQ-Moabite-Stone-I-Sam-15.2-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SPEC-DQ-Moabite-Stone-I-Sam-15.2-3.png\" alt=\"SPEC DQ Moabite Stone I Sam 15.2-3\" width=\"602\" height=\"633\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SPEC-DQ-Moabite-Stone-I-Sam-15.2-3.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SPEC-DQ-Moabite-Stone-I-Sam-15.2-3-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While researching <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=41967\">Phineas Priesthood 2: The Tanakh<\/a>, I found myself reading <strong>John J Collins<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbl-site.org\/assets\/pdfs\/presidentialaddresses\/JBL122_1_1Collins2002.pdf\">The Zeal of Phinehas: The Bible and the Legitimization of Violence<\/a>, his 2002 Presidential Address to the Society of Biblical Literature &#8212; and ran across the Moabite Stone, which I should probably have remembered from my time reading Theology at Oxford under such luminaries as <strong>HFD Sparks<\/strong> of Oriel, who introduced me to <strong>Pritchard<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ancient-Eastern-Relating-Testament-Supplement\/dp\/0691035032\">Ancient Near Eastern Texts<\/a> (&#8220;ANET&#8221;) if I am not mistaken.<\/p>\n<p>The parallel is a familiar one to more diligent scholars than I &#8212; but worth bearing in mind, I think, when considering the story of <strong>Phinehas \/ Pinchas \/ Phineas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; who was admittedly more concerned with champagne than cuneiform as a student ] . Back in the old days, this is how it was: While researching Phineas Priesthood 2: The Tanakh, I found myself reading John J Collins, The Zeal of Phinehas: The Bible and the Legitimization of Violence, his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,526,483,717,676],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-history","category-charles-cameron","category-extremists","category-judaism","category-scriptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42312,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42308\/revisions\/42312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}