To double business bound...in I Kings 13, part 1 -- Mimetic Theory and Literary Study

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Date Posted: 19:59:58 04/07/08 Mon
Author: Betsy Peters
Subject: To double business bound...in I Kings 13, part 1

Today we discussed how the OT often repeats it and retells stories again and again as doubles of the first. We have noted places where the crucifixion pre-figures itself. I was reading in I Kings and I noticed this strange, but definite replay of an earlier Torah stories in the rebellion of Jeroboam:
"Therefore the king asked advice and made two calves of gold for the people and said "It is too much for you to go back to Jerusalem, Here are your gods, O Israel which brought you out of the land of Egypt". Sound familiar. It is not Sinai's golden calf. But it sure sounds like it. Here Jeroboam asks advice to keep the heart of the people from returning to Rehoboam. What does he decide to do? To pull "an Aaron idol" on them. He builds them two calves and announces, JUST LIKE AARON, "Here are your gods, O Israel which brought you out of the land of Egypt." The worst thing about it is that Jeroboam has doubled the sin of Aaron--he makes two cows. And the bull becomes the rebel symbol of the north. In other words the North starts stamping its greeting cards with the rebellion at Sinai. That's right. They flaunt their idolatry. Jeroboam and gang are sons of Sinai. Where is Moses to pound the idols to dust and make Jeroboam drink?
I am not quite sure what the double image is doing here--but I cannot imagine that the Israelites do not hear the imitation of Sinai when they hear of Jeroboam.

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