In the Hebrew Bible, a marriage ceremony is never actually described.
Priests and their attendants (Kohanim and Levites) are responsible for work in the sanctuary, such as sacrifices and offerings, so although they're the people "consecrated to God" and act as intermediaries between the people ...
@JackDouglas Tough call. Not really, but it's also on the fringe of on-topic for three different sites, not squarely in any of them.
I think it's a better fit on C.SE since we explicitly allow history and ancient culture questions that are relevant to the Bible in some way. However I think it's likely to get a better answer staying on BH.
@JackDouglas methinks this guy was smart enough to know that a bunch of folks would Google it as a result of this question. SEO tactic in my opinion... now he even has a linkback. — Dan24 mins ago
@JackDouglas I think I will also be deleting my other post about speaking in a polite tone. I have been doing extensive reading about this. Meta post to follow....
@MonicaCellio OK I can leave it for now, but I should also note that I have been working on a meta post off and on for about 6 hours that will address some underlying issues
So don't think I'm leaving anything unaddressed - I just don't think we've had some of the requisite conversations necessary to make this site viable
@Dan looking forward to it. I just don't want to lose the best recent statement we've had about polite vs impolite assertions of truth. (Plus, I have a meta post coming that references it.)
Of course, if your new post ends up superseding it I may reference that instead. :-)
@Dan actually, for a non-obvious reason: I intend to link it on Mi Yodeya, and out of deference to the common practice there of keeping a second day of holidays, I'd rather not have it show up with a timestamp from the second day of Rosh Hashana.
@Dan yeah. Our meta discussions -- or, rather, their conclusions, and any hope of actually finding them -- are kind of a mess. Be warned, though: asking for a simple FAQ update got me all kinds of grief. With luck we can improve on that this time.
@Dan btw, nice job on the edit to that Hyksos post! I've just removed the review pin for that; the original was a train wreck and your edit fixed it nicely, so I was just waiting in case the OP objected. Since no one has...
So that leaves this one -- is there anything salvagable there? OP hasn't been back since Aug 26.
@Dan without it, it deserved deletion. From my point of view, an edit that rescues a post without putting words in the author's mouth that he would object to is a win. In that case, you deleted a lot of unnecessary words. :-)
BTW, under the "review" link, note the "tools" tab (you probably already have) and, under there, the "deletions" tab. I'm presuming that's newly available to you; it shows everything with recent delete votes, along with recent deletions/undeletions. (Not self-deletes, though, just community ones. Not sure about mod deletions; the community can't override those so maybe not, but OTOH, auditing.)
By allowing these to remain two separate tags, we are in effect asking for doctrinal answers to an extent (if you want a Jewish perspective, select the tanakh tag, if Christian then old-testament). The reality is that both terms are used in scholarship, and thus they should be synonyms.
By allowing these to remain two separate tags, we are in effect asking for doctrinal answers to an extent (if you want a Jewish perspective, select the tanakh tag, if Christian then old-testament). The reality is that both terms are used in scholarship, and thus they should be synonyms.
