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The Book of the Law
Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the book of the law in the house of Yahweh.” And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan and he read it. – 2 Kings 22:8 Have you ever wondered what the Book of the Law was? All 5 books of the Torah, or just Deuteronomy? Scholars disagree. And just how did it get lost in the first place?! Hilkiah found it during the reign of Josiah. But who lost it? Hezekiah’s son, Manasseh, was a wicked king. He didn’t just rebel. He tried to stamp out worship of Yahweh. In Judea in those days, idol worship was…
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Musings on Josiah
In preparation for the release of Daughter of Stone this summer, I’ll be doing a series of blog posts about some of the characters and events that inspired the story. The Prophet Chronicles is a fantastical retelling of the events before and during the Babylonian Exile. In studying the books of 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, and Jeremiah, I had so many questions. There are so many things we just don’t know the specifics of. At the same time, there are so many things in their culture that have parallels in our own. We can look into the lives of the people of the Old Testament and…
