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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Where is Jerusalem?
The Chumash (five books of Moses,) written four centuries
before the time of David, emphasizes the centrality of the then-future capital
of Jerusalem, but never gives a specific location though it could easily have
done so i.e., at the spring of Gihon, headwaters of the Kidron River, in the
shadow of the Mount of Olives, etc. Its location on the border between
Yehuda (Judah, David’s home tribe) and Binyamin (Benjamin, the tribe of the
previous King Saul) is almost an homage to the house of Shaul, although this
idea is not made explicit in the text. It seems a very earthly and
contemporary consideration for locating the divine and timeless, “Eternal
capital of the Jewish People.” Perhaps the idea of “Jerusalem” was known
since the time of the Chumash, but David selected its final temporal location.
Or am I just a heretic? J
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