The Cultic Prophet in Ancient Israel by Aubrey Rodway Johnson
By Aubrey Rodway Johnson
The Cultic Prophet in old Israel
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For example, E. König, Der Offenbarungsbegriff des Alten Testamentes, i (1882), pp. * esp. , Theologie des Alten Testaments, 2 The Cultic Prophet in Ancient Israel 25 The early iTIll or 'prophet', then, had at least this much in common with the priest (including the Levite) and the seer: he was consulted for the sake of securing oracular guidance. Accordingly there should be no cause for surprise in the fact that (again like the priest, including the Levite, and the seer) the prophet is found in close association with cultus and sanctuary.
T. (1924), on Ezek. xxi. 26 ( E W . 21); Brinker, loc. cit. In illustration of such cultic masks see now the recent discoveries at Canaanite Hazor, as described by Y. Yadin (and others), Hazor I: An Account of the First Season of Excavations, J955 (1958), p. 138 and pi. clxiii, and esp. Hazor II: An Account of the Second Season of Excavations, 1956 (i960), p. 115 and pis. clxxxii and clxxxiii. Note, however, Hänel, op. , p. 245, η. ι: also the fact that Gress mann subsequently rejected the theory of a mantic mask in favour of a medium-sized image in human form, the head of which could be manipu lated when the object was consulted; and the etymology was then explained in terms of * ρ |ΊΓΐνηθΊ, 'to move to and fro, quiver, tremble'.
2 1 Kings i. 2 of the early type but rather a njft or 'seer\ See above, pp. ; also 1 Sam. xxii. 5. Π rather than that of the early type of 'prophet*. 3 See further, for example, among the works cited above, p. 1, n. 1: Eissfeldt, pp. ; Oesterley and Robinson, pp. ; Pfeiffer, pp. ; Bentzen, i, pp. 237 ff. 4 1 Kings xviii. Note verse 30; and cf. xix. 10 (as quoted below in the text). -M. Abel, Geographie de la Palestine, i (i933)> P· 351· 28 The Cultic Prophet in Ancient Israel coupled altar and prophet together in the following remark able way:1 I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Hosts, because the children of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant, demolished Thine altars, and slain Thy prophets with the sword; I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it away.