The more universal passages that you find in the prophets and other writings appear after the time we believe Micah lived. This isn’t a topic that I’ve given a lot of thought to probably because for me I’m not overly concerned with the author as much as I am with the message.
The reason I ask is a conversation with someone (not sure what protestant denomination) who said the Temple must be rebuilt and destroyed.
I’ve never heard a Jew argue that the Temple will be rebuilt and then destroyed. Especially as the rebuilding will occur in the Messianic Age so I don’t see why it would then be destroyed.
So it seems that to you the more universal passages couldn’t have been written at the time each of the prophets existed. It might well be. But what then do you base this assertion on? I mean, how can anyone tell when those more universal passages started to appear among the Jewish people, through their prophets or otherwise?
Yeah, why would you want to rebuild a temple knowing that it will be destroyed soon after? That would mean you’d build her for nothing, and it would mean all your efforts during the construction would have been in vain!
The shift to a more universal message, according to bible scholars, occurs after the Babylonian exile. I believe this was around 586 BCE?
From my own studies this answer seemed to pop up most logically. You indeed confirm it. Still, any slight chance it could have tentatively come out (maybe unsuccessfully) even before the Babylonian exile?
I had researched this question, answered it in this thread somewhere and then promptly forgot about it. I know I posted a link to info on this somewhere.
Great info he provided and I like his style.
Hello Valke2,
I might be wrong about what is going on with qorban? But I remeber one time I had this explained to me in the context of Christ was criticizing wealthy saducee's and Pharisee's who were using qorban as a means of payment.
This payment was something equivilent to like putting their parents in an old folks home to avoid having to take care of them. An abuse of sacrificial payment or the twisting of things in their favor. And this might sound crazey but it was to the temple priest who were running an oldfolks home on the side maybe to make a few extra bucks. Peace and GodblessI must getting dense or something because I hadn't check the dates. I think it was because I read a few first post and then some last not thinking. Anyway he seemed like a someone honest enough about his beliefs. But such is life I guess at times..OK, it is not just in the bible but in textbooks that the Jews did this to Jesus, it reads that the court or government didn’t want to kill Jesus, but the Jews wanted to crucify him that same day, and they forced the court/government to do so (and when Jesus died the temples were destroyed) do you think this was a simple coincidence?
