The Judaean priesthood during the Neo-Babylonian and achaemenid periods: A hypothetical reconstruction

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

AFTER THE SACK OF JERUSALEM and burning of the temple by the Babylonian general Nebuzaradan, the chief priest Seraiah, his second-in-command Zephaniah, and three guardians of the threshhold, also priests, were executed (2 Kgs 25:18). The rest of the temple staff were presumably killed, dispersed, or deported to Babylon. It has generally been held, nevertheless, that some form of worship continued on the site of the ruined temple. Lamentations, we are told, could have been composed for recital as part of a liturgy carried out in situ, and we hear of a group of pious Northerners, eighty strong, ...

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