{"id":64475,"date":"2019-10-18T14:35:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T11:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=64475"},"modified":"2023-05-16T08:51:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T05:51:11","slug":"josiahs-religious-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/josiahs-religious-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Josiah\u2019s Religious Revolution"},"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":[395,942,410],"acf":{"old_id":"64475","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33692,"related_cahpter":"332","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"It begins with the reading of the scroll","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seforno (Deut. 31:26) suggests that the scroll found was indeed Moses&#8217;s scroll, but not the five books of the Torah: Seforno suggests that this was a special scroll written for the king. If we understand his comment in context, he would be referring to the scroll with selected texts that was read during the <em>Hak&#8217;hel<\/em> ceremony, and which accompanied the king on a constant basis (Deut. 17:18-20).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The passages in the scroll were designed to spur the nation, <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that they may hear and so learn to revere the Lord your God and to observe faithfully every word of this Teaching&#8230;to revere the Lord your God as long as they live in the land that you are about to cross the Jordan to possess (Deut. 31:12-13).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seforno suggests that it additionally contained the text of Joshua&#8217;s covenantal ceremony, held at the end of his life (Josh. 24:26). This creative solution circumvents the issue of the absence of Torah scrolls in ancient Israel, a situation that would imply a total disruption of the tradition. It also furnishes an interesting understanding as to the king&#8217;s shock upon reading the document, as it is unlikely he would have been familiar with a text from Joshua&#8217;s era. Whether the content of the scroll was select texts from the Deuteronomy covenant or Joshua&#8217;s covenantal speech, both are directed at the repudiation of idolatry and seem particularly suited to this historical juncture (II Kings 23:1-3).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This public reading of the &#8220;scroll of the covenant&#8221; is a key feature of covenantal ceremonies, first at Mount Sinai itself (Ex. 24:4-8), then before Moses&#8217; death (Deut. 28:69; 29:9-28; 31:28), and later at Mount Ebal after Joshua leads Israel into the land of Canaan (Josh. 8:3o-35). Each of these mass gatherings served to confirm Israel&#8217;s commitment to Torah. The <em>Hak&#8217;hel<\/em> ceremony in which the Torah is publicly read by the king is similarly an opportunity, every seven years, for the nation <em>en masse<\/em> to refresh and restate its commitment to the Torah. It is appropriate that this ancient tradition serves to spearhead Josiah&#8217;s religious revolution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alex Israel, <em>II Kings: In a Whirlwind<\/em>, Maggid Books, 2019, Josiah\u2019s Religious Revolution\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":63310,"id":63310,"title":"Alex Israel - 2_kings_cover","filename":"Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-hairy-prophet\/alex-israel-2_kings_cover\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"alex-israel-2_kings_cover","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":63117,"date":"2019-09-23 13:43:41","modified":"2019-09-23 13:53:01","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1711,"height":1821,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-282x300.jpg","medium-width":282,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-768x817.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":817,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-962x1024.jpg","large-width":962,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","1536x1536-width":1443,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover.jpg","2048x2048-width":1711,"2048x2048-height":1821,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-1128x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":1128,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Israel-2_kings_cover-395x420.jpg","home_baner-width":395,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"Excerpts from: II Kings - 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