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Posted by Vince on 4/26/2009, 6:33 pm, in reply to "The Bible is NOT a Historical Document...?"
Jeremiah was a prophet of Israel who stayed behind in the last Exodus/captivity to Babylon. In other words, Babylon conquered the last tribe of Judah and exported most of the people from Palestine to Babylon for a stated 70 year period and then they were permitted to return to Palestine. (I say "Palestine" in order to define the region).
Jeremiah was given a choice of whether to go to Babylon or stay behind. He chose to stay and later went to Egypt to end his days.
He was called the 'weeping prophet" and probably rightly so .... since he saw the results of a massive restructuring of religious authority -based on and justified by- historical revision of the Hebrew Exodus account from Egypt under Moses and Joshua (the fabricated "Pentateuch") ......... all go down the tubes. Jeremiah's own father -Hilkiah- was one of the architects of that written revision and so Jeremiah had first-hand knowledge about the "lying pen of the scribes."
What was the "real" history of the "law of Moses" ... or, at least the traditional understanding of that history?
As the article above states ...... JUDGES has the more accurate account. In Judges 17, 18 we find QUITE a different perspective on the legacy left by Moses!
[ 6 In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.-KJV
18:30 There the Danites set up for themselves the idols, and Jonathan son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the tribe of Dan until the time of the captivity of the land. -NIV ]
[1 Chr.23:15 The sons of Moses were, Gershom, and Eliezer. ]
[Judges 20:28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? ]
Thus we find -in the book of Judges- a much DIFFERENT version of the association of Moses with an Israel that -as yet- had no kings and were governed by Judges (one of the first being a woman by the name of Deborah). They DIDN'T have any "law of Moses"; they were idol worshippers.
But yeah ..... Jeremiah's dad, Hilkiah ... was the chief priest during the reign of the second-last King of Judah before the Babylonian captivity -a child king raised by priests- by the name of Josiah. Hilkiah presented this king with a "book of the law" that had been "found" hidden away in the musty archives of the temple they were remodelling. Josiah bought the story completely and ordered the revamping of religious worship in Judah-Israel according to this book of the law. The book was ..... the work of ....... the lying scribes.
The above article states, "modern consensus suggests that the assembling and editing of the documents that were to constitute the Bible began in the seventh century BCE, some three centuries after David's time."
Yes, that corresponds to the time when this "book of the law" was first presented to Josiah. That was around 612 BC.
-Vince
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