Jesus and Beersheba
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Hi Earl –
There's no reference in the Gospels nor in Acts of Our Lord ever getting to Beersheba. Eusebius says the van broke down at Hebron and they called it a day, Jerome says someone put sand in the gas tank....
The place does figure in the OT. Abraham raised a shrine there to his God, taking the Canaanite name El Olam (Heb: ‘God of Eternity’). The place figures in the narratives of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.
It was a place of pilgrimage, and the folktales accorded to it were subject to Yahwist and Elohist redaction. It was condemned by the prophet Amos - probably for back-sliding into a more Canaanite style of worship - and appears to have paid the price for such during the reforms under Josiah.
Thomas
There's no reference in the Gospels nor in Acts of Our Lord ever getting to Beersheba. Eusebius says the van broke down at Hebron and they called it a day, Jerome says someone put sand in the gas tank....
The place does figure in the OT. Abraham raised a shrine there to his God, taking the Canaanite name El Olam (Heb: ‘God of Eternity’). The place figures in the narratives of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.
It was a place of pilgrimage, and the folktales accorded to it were subject to Yahwist and Elohist redaction. It was condemned by the prophet Amos - probably for back-sliding into a more Canaanite style of worship - and appears to have paid the price for such during the reforms under Josiah.
Thomas