Mt. Carmel and Elijah |
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Written by Stephen Langfur |
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Page 1 of 4 Mt. Carmel is a continuation of the central mountain range, thrusting northwestward into the Mediterranean. This plunge continues beneath the water for six miles. In the time of Pharaoh Pepi I (ca. 2300 BC), the mountain served as a landmark for ancient Egyptian seafarers, who called it "the antelope's nose." The Upper Carmel, some 12 miles long (20 km.), maintains a fairly steady height of about 1300 feet over sea level.
For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn’t as the land of Egypt, that you came out from, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs; but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water of the rain of the sky, a land which Yahweh your God cares for: the eyes of Yahweh your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.The contest on Mt. Carmel relates to the following passage (Deut. 11: 13-17): These words present the covenant between God and Israel -- and for the first time very much in agricultural terms. The words appear often in Jewish ritual. Pious Jews recite them twice a day. A scribe writes them on a small piece of parchment, which is placed in a container and nailed to the doorpost of the house. This is called a mezuzah. The notion of divine justice first enunciated in Deuteronomy 11, that God will reward the good and punish the wicked, has been definitive for Western culture. |
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