Sefer Moshe: The Moshe Weinfeld Jubilee Volume 
Subtitle: Studies in the Bible and the Ancient Near East, Qumran, and Post-Biblical Judaism
Contributors: Chaim Cohen (Editor); Avi Hurvitz (Editor); Shalom M. Paul (Editor); Moshe Weinfeld (Editor)
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: May 2003
Language: eng; heb
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9781575060743
Subjects: Biblical studies, criticism & exegesis; O.T.; History and criticism; Bible; Religion - Judaism; O.T; Religion; Middle Eastern literature; Judaism; Judaism - General; Bible.; Criticism, interpretation, etc
First sentence: According to the account in 2 Kings 23, the purge of foreign cults undertaken by Josiah extended beyond the kingdom of Judah into Samaria: the bmâ of Bethel and its altar were summarily eradicated (v. 15), and similar action was taken against the bmôt-shrines throughout Northern Israel (vv. 19-20).