ANTH 3004 Final: REL ANTH 3004 Final Answers
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Rel/anth 3004 third midterm test may 1, 2012: short essays (10-15 minutes each; 10 points each, according to john van seters, the biblical description of the temple in 1 kings 6- 7 is not a historical witness to solomon"s temple. Present van seter"s arguments and evaluate his conclusion: archaeological parallels to the biblical temple of solomon (e. g. , temples at tell. Tayinat and ain dara) suggest only that the latter belonged to a typical east. The parallels don"t indicate a particular period for the construction of the solomonic temple: the biblical description of the solomonic temple in 1 kings 6-7 does not draw on an early archival source. Rather the biblical description derives from the deuteronomistic historian in the 6th century bce: the deuteronomistic historian wanted to make an ideological point, namely, that the. Jerusalem temple just prior to its destruction in 586 was the same as the one built by.
