{"id":84843,"date":"2020-12-14T16:49:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T14:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=84843"},"modified":"2020-12-14T16:49:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T14:49:15","slug":"trial-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/trial-by-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial By Fire"},"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":"84843","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":54356,"related_cahpter":"633","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"The fate of the individual and the fate of the nation are indivisible\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">66:10 \u201cFor You tested us, God, You refined us as silver refined.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some interpreters have taken the imagery of testing through fire in this verse and the language of the next two verses as expressions of the ordeal of exile that began in 586 B.C.E. There is nothing, however, in the formulations here that explicitly refer to exile, and the poet could easily have in mind any moment of impending disaster when powerful enemies threatened to overwhelm the Judahite state. The speaker from verse 13 onward assumes that the Temple exists. So either the whole psalm is pre-exilic or one must assume that an earlier psalm has been tacked on editorially to a later one. The switch to first-person singular beginning in verse 13 might seem to argue for this assumption, though there are many psalms that move from first-person singular or the other way around, taking for granted that the fate of the individual and the fate of the nation are indivisible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From: Robert Alter, <em>The Hebrew Bible<\/em>, vol. 3: Writings, W. W. Norton &amp; Co., 2019, ad loc. 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