RLGA02H3 Lecture Notes - Sadducees, Midrash, Mishnah
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12 tribes 11 are given territory and one tribe has a special role: everyone else reached the promise land, this tribe (the levites) are the priestly class, they are in charge of administrating the temple, the levites are the descendants of moses (aaron moses" brother, king saul, david and solomon, david establishes the capital (jerusalem) 1000bc, david is swinging his slingshot around (famous story of david and goliath) In the hebrew bible we have narratives that fuse to historical events: and is revealing his power through these moments, cyrus , the establishment of the temple and jerusalem is the history, we have a kingdom and we are trying to find out how well solomon is obeying his command, assyrians attacked the northern kingdom and eventually they separate, the northern kingdom is where the assyrians take over (721 bce, the later prophets were saying that we are getting attacked by the assyrians because we are not.
