{"id":72274,"date":"2020-03-24T15:38:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T13:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=72274"},"modified":"2020-03-24T15:38:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T13:38:25","slug":"forget-you-idolatry-worked-better-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/forget-you-idolatry-worked-better-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget You: Idolatry Worked Better For Us"},"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":"72274","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"444","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"It was the Queen of Heaven who took care of us\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">44:17 \u201cFor we will surely do every word that comes out of our mouth, to burn incense to the Queen of Heavens and to pour out libations to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our nobles, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and we ate our fill of bread, and we were good, and evil we did not see.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The people present an empirical theological justification for their worship of Ishtar: over the many decades that they observed her cult, they were never in want. After the religious reforms of Josiah, beginning in 622 B.C.E, the cult was suppressed, and then disaster after disaster came upon them, culminating in the destruction of the kingdom.\u00a0<\/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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