The forgotten promise to Phinehas: a reception history of numbers 25:10–13
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- Title: Subtitle
- The forgotten promise to Phinehas: a reception history of numbers 25:10–13
- Creators
- Jordan Scott Jones
- Contributors
- Robert Cargill (Advisor)Paul Dilley (Committee Member)Mark Leuchter (Committee Member)William Schniedewind (Committee Member)Celsiana Warwick (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Classics
- Date degree season
- Summer 2025
- DOI
- 10.25820/etd.008078
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Number of pages
- xvi, 200 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright 2025 Jordan Scott Jones
- Language
- English
- Date submitted
- 07/14/2025
- Description illustrations
- Tables
- Description bibliographic
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-200).
- Public Abstract (ETD)
Despite the covenant of a perpetual priesthood granted to Phinehas by God in Numbers 25:10 13, the priest Phinehas is scarcely mentioned in the texts of the Hebrew Bible. More remarkably, Numbers 25:10 13 provides the only reference to Phinehas covenant within the biblical text. While Phinehas appears in various texts from Exodus to Psalms as the ancestor of the Zadokites, the grandson of Aaron, and recipient of the divine covenant of perpetual priesthood (Num 25:13) that secures the Zadokite priesthood, his legacy within the biblical text is surprisingly modest. This study is concerned with the development of Phinehas covenant within the biblical text and the impact that the covenant has on Phinehas various appearances and argues that the development of the promise of the perpetual priesthood to Phinehas found in Numbers 25:10 13 is a late development in the Phinehas tradition created by the Zadokites between the late 4th and mid 3rd c. BCE.
- Academic Unit
- Classics
- Record Identifier
- 9984948641802771