I’m wondering what those who know much more than me think about this covenant of salt post/article.
(And, yes, I realize I’m addressing a very large group of people.)
]]>From the New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis, 947-8-
]]>Twice [melach or “salt”] is used with “covenant” in priestly texts, first in Lev 2:13 (“Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offerings”), and then in Num 18:19 (“It is an everlasting covenant of salt before the LORD for both you and your offspring”)….
As a symbol of permanence, a salt covenant may be a way of expressing an unbreakable covenant. In Ezra 4:14 loyalty to the king of Persia is expressed by “we have tasted the salt of the palace”…, which is rendered by NIV, “Now since we are under obligation to the palace.” In Arab. milhat [“salt’] means “a treaty.” And a neo-Babylonian letter refers to a certain tribe’s covenanted allies by using the phrase “all who have tasted the salt of the Jakin tribe.”
PS I also love the waffles from that “eat more chiken” place.
]]>Wendy’s has the best fries. That really isn’t debatable.
]]>Perhaps the best question you can ask as a teacher is not “What could this mean?” but “And what else could this mean?”
This was one of my favorite strategies as a Gospel Doctrine teacher. Acknowledging and sometimes praising each response and following up with a “what else could this mean?”
Before doing this I also usually modeled it by coming up with two or three of my own possible meanings.
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