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Today we ask the question, how many temples did God authorize, and why did he authorize some but not others. Then we ask, was David a priest of God, and why he could be priest and king when Saul could not. Those two questions take us on a long detour, but it ultimately ends up with David dead and Solomon on the throne, fighting for his life in a fratricidal power struggle. In between these, we have a digression where we look a bit at the history, religion, and religious history of the Samaritans, or at least the claims that the modern Samaritans make and what impact it might have on our dating of Deuteronomy and our understanding of the Jerusalem temple.
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Today we ask the question, how many temples did God authorize, and why did he authorize some but not others. Then we ask, was David a priest of God, and why he could be priest and king when Saul could not. Those two questions take us on a long detour, but it ultimately ends up with David dead and Solomon on the throne, fighting for his life in a fratricidal power struggle. In between these, we have a digression where we look a bit at the history, religion, and religious history of the Samaritans, or at least the claims that the modern Samaritans make and what impact it might have on our dating of Deuteronomy and our understanding of the Jerusalem temple.
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