Destiny of the Defiant

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What happens to the deliberate, defiant sinner? The Hebrew Bible prescribes kārēt / "cutting off". Donald J. Wold's semantic-field analysis across Hebrew, Greek, Qumran, and rabbinic sources - bolstered by Akkadian and Egyptian parallels - reveals that only God enacts kārēt - a curse denying eternal life to high-handed offenders.
In this detailed study on the meaning of the biblical term kārēt , "cutting off", Donald J. Wold concludes that the penalty is a conditional divine curse denying eternal life to the defiant, "high-handed" sinner (Num 15:30). He is the first scholar to examine kārēt in the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and rabbinic sources. Ancient Near Eastern literature furnishes analogues to kārēt in Akkadian, West Semitic, Hittite, and Egyptian. Previous explanations have not accounted for its full semantic range, prompting the author to employ semantic-field analysis. He shows that kārēt is never enacted by humans. It is executed only by God for violations against sacred time, sacred substance, illicit sex and worship, idolatry, blasphemy, and failure to perform certain purification rituals - crimes against God alone.

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Donald J. Wold
Born 1945; 1967 BMus, University of Wisconsin, Madison; 1971 MDiv, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; 1973 MA Comparative Semitics, UC Berkeley; 1978 PhD, UC Berkeley; 1978-80 Assoc. Prof. Simpson College; 1975-77 Instructor, World Religions University of Redlands; Independent Researcher.

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