{"id":61196,"date":"2019-08-16T15:48:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T12:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=61196"},"modified":"2023-03-13T12:16:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T10:16:47","slug":"an-arbitrarily-punitive-god-accompanied-by-hocus-pocus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/an-arbitrarily-punitive-god-accompanied-by-hocus-pocus\/","title":{"rendered":"An Arbitrarily Punitive God, Accompanied By Hocus-Pocus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[506],"acf":{"old_id":"61196","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"287","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Prophet or no prophet","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">24:11 \u201cAnd David arose in the morning, and the word of the Lord had come to Gad the prophet, David\u2019s seer, saying\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commentary: Gad was mentioned earlier (1 Samuel 22:5). His appearance here by no means warrants the claim by Kyle McCarter, Jr., and others that this story is the work of a \u201cprophetic\u201d writer. Visionary intermediaries between king and God were a common assumption in the ancient world. Gad is called \u201cseer\u201d (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hozeh<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), not the way prophetic writers would ordinarily think of prophets (and also not the term used for Samuel in 1 Samuel 9). Above all, the prophetic current in biblical literature does not presuppose either this kind of arbitrarily punitive God or the accompanying hocus-pocus with choices of punishment and divine messengers of destruction visible to the human characters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: Robert Alter, <em>The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton &amp; Co., 2019, ad loc. 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