RELI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rehoboam, Books Of Kings, Golden Calf

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Religion
• Course: RELI 1001
• Professor: Sarah Cook

Document Summary

Solomon"s temple: over time, come groups promoted the idea that one could only worship yahweh at the central temple in jerusalem, often called the place where i will cause my name to dwell" o. Holy of holy"s in the back of the temple containing the arc of the. So the king took counsel and made two golden calves (to put in the two sanctuaries). He said to the people, you have been going up to jerusalem long enough. Israel, who brought you up from the land of egypt! (1 kings 12: 27-28) Two sanctuaries in israel (north) rather than judah (south), one at dan and one at bethel. They were built to prevent people from going to the south to worship (south doesn"t worship the golden calf: israel enjoyed a much better position than judah. The soil in the north is much better than that in the south and, for this reason, israel was a stronger economic power.