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The Priestly Code (in Hebrew Torat Kohanim, תורת כהנים) is the name given, by academia, [1] to the body of laws expressed in the Torah which do not form part of the Holiness Code, the Covenant Code, the Ritual Decalogue, or the Ethical Decalogue.
However, the historian Josephus does not mention a Jehoshaphat, [1] and according to his account, the second High Priest after Joram (the chronological place of Jehoshaphat) was Pediah. Nor is a high priest named Jehoshaphat mentioned in the list of the Zadokite dynasty in 1 Chronicles 5:30–40 (6:4-15 in some translations) or elsewhere in the ...
Rashi explains that Jehoshaphat sent a combined delegation of priests and officers (2 Chronicles 17:8) so that the priests could teach while the officers would enforce the teachings. [11] In 2 Chronicles 15:3, the presence of a "teaching priest" among the people was a sign of God's connection to them.
Since the priests served a unique role of service amongst the nation of Israel, e.g. service in the Holy Temple and consumption of the Holy Terumah, so the Torah required them to follow unique rules of ritual purity, in order to protect them against ritual defilement . Some of these rules are still maintained today in Orthodox Judaism.
Jehoshaphat (/ dʒ ə ˈ h ɒ ʃ ə f æ t /; alternatively spelled Jehosaphat, Josaphat, or Yehoshafat; Hebrew: יְהוֹשָׁפָט, Modern: Yəhōšafaṭ, Tiberian: Yŏhōšāp̄āṭ, "Yahweh has judged"; [1] Greek: Ἰωσαφάτ, romanized: Iosafát; Latin: Josaphat), according to the Hebrew Bible, was the son of Asa, and the fourth king of the Kingdom of Judah, in succession to his ...
A Spanish bishop rebuked comments made by some priests on a weekly internet program about praying for Pope Francis to die as soon as possible. The priests later apologized. Archbishop Francisco ...
The high priests before the Exile were apparently appointed for life; [75] in fact, from Aaron to the exile fewer high priests served than in the 60 years preceding the fall of the Second Temple. Josephus enumerates only 52 high priests under the Second Temple, omitting the second appointments of Hyrcanus II, Hananeel, and Joazar.
“The Abbey of St. Mary in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, Jerusalem,” Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities, Palestine 8 (1939), pgs. 117–136. Mayer, Hans Eberhard, Bistümer, Klöster und Stifte in Königreich Jerusalem (Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1977)