The account of a priests massacre in 2Kgs 23:4b-5 appears as the result of a textual re-elaboration. In fact, 2Kgs 23:4-20 is a compound text, as it is proved by various lexical and morphological incoherences, with the co-existence of correct and incorrect verbal forms. A copyist introduced, into the text, various marginal or interlinear glosses, amongst which the presumed massacre of idolatrous priests (“kĕmārîm"). This bloody measure, later attributed to Josiah, is explained like a product of religious intransigence born after the Exile: on the basis of this ideological presupposition, a lot of important pages of the ancient Israel history were rewritten.

Toloni, G., Una strage di sacerdoti? Dalla storiografia alla storia in 2Re 23,4b-5, <<ESTUDIOS BIBLICOS>>, 1998; 56 (1): 41-60 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/35171]

Una strage di sacerdoti? Dalla storiografia alla storia in 2Re 23,4b-5

Toloni, Giancarlo
1998

Abstract

The account of a priests massacre in 2Kgs 23:4b-5 appears as the result of a textual re-elaboration. In fact, 2Kgs 23:4-20 is a compound text, as it is proved by various lexical and morphological incoherences, with the co-existence of correct and incorrect verbal forms. A copyist introduced, into the text, various marginal or interlinear glosses, amongst which the presumed massacre of idolatrous priests (“kĕmārîm"). This bloody measure, later attributed to Josiah, is explained like a product of religious intransigence born after the Exile: on the basis of this ideological presupposition, a lot of important pages of the ancient Israel history were rewritten.
1998
Italiano
Toloni, G., Una strage di sacerdoti? Dalla storiografia alla storia in 2Re 23,4b-5, <<ESTUDIOS BIBLICOS>>, 1998; 56 (1): 41-60 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/35171]
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