You have me there, because I hardly know enough about Canaanite worship to argue about it. I would argue, that the invading Israelites were influenced and caught up in various forms of Canaanite worship, as an ongoing process during the invasion, precisely because they failed to irridicate it. Just like the book of Judges tells us.
But going back to the religious POV, if all what you say is true, what then of Jesus? He obviously accepted the divinity of the Torah, especially so, if you take the more modern attitude, that he himself was a Pharisee, rather than fighting against them (See "Pharisees" and Christianity [Wikipedia])... You would hardly expect acceptance of the type of theological "hanky-panky" you possibly attribute to the leaders of Hilkiah's era, from a person with Jesus's other views.
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Date: 2005-06-12 02:53 pm (UTC)But going back to the religious POV, if all what you say is true, what then of Jesus? He obviously accepted the divinity of the Torah, especially so, if you take the more modern attitude, that he himself was a Pharisee, rather than fighting against them (See "Pharisees" and Christianity [Wikipedia])... You would hardly expect acceptance of the type of theological "hanky-panky" you possibly attribute to the leaders of Hilkiah's era, from a person with Jesus's other views.