Lecture 9- 4/27/10

This lecture was simply a touch up on last week, so I am going to post a recap of the quarter up to the midterm later today or tomorrow. As for the material today, the basic idea was that the problems created by the destruction of Jerusalem and the subsequent exile forced the Israelites to reconsider their faith. As a result, the texts begin to describe a shift in the view of Jerusalem as the "house of god" from that of it being his residence to the view "that His name resides there". This new distinction allowed the city to retain its religious importance while hammering out some of the conflicts between the 2 Samuel promises and the realities of the exilic period.

Recap of the quarter coming soon