Le lieu unique choisi par YHWH et la pluralité des temples dans l’idéologie deutéronomiste

Abstract

According to the deuteronomistic tradition there is only one legitimate place to offer sacrifices to YHWH, the Jerusalemite temple (see Dt 12). However, the Deuteronomists were aware that there were other yahwistic cult place, and invented for those they considered to be legitimate (Shilo) the idea of a succession of chosen places (Jer 7). Those they considered to be illegitimate (Bethel) were presented as idolatrous (1 Kgs 12). In the Pentateuch, which is also a compromise between priestly and deuteronomistic ideologies, Lev 17 tries to harmonize between the diversity of yahwistic sanctuaries and the deuteronomistic idea of cult centralization.