{"id":71952,"date":"2020-03-17T16:55:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T14:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=71952"},"modified":"2020-03-17T16:55:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T14:55:02","slug":"the-babylonians-at-the-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-babylonians-at-the-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Babylonians At The Gates"},"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":[],"acf":{"old_id":"71952","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"439","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"But which gates?\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The commentaries on this chapter are quite meager, save for some speculation on the geography of Jerusalem. Verse 3 situates the Babylonian officers on the eve of destruction at \u201cthe middle gate.\u201d Rashi noted that this is the realization of one of Jeremiah\u2019s earliest prophecies: \u201cFor I am summoning all the peoples of the kingdoms of the north \u2014declares the LORD. They shall come and shall each set up a throne before the gates of Jerusalem, against its walls roundabout, and against all the towns of Judah\u201d (1:15).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the spatial, technical level, however, just which gate was \u201cthe middle\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rashi\u2019s knowledge of the geography of the urban landscape of Jerusalem was restricted largely to those features that were reported in early rabbinic literature. 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