The Importance of Syncretism in the Old Testament

LZ: I think it's written in such a way that we are actually supposed to, to feel pity, pity for her. LZ: The other wife would take advantage of this situation to basically gauge in that what the Germans call with that wonderful word, shoddenfreude. So she would irritate her, provoke her. And then Elkhana was just in what we would call a depressed state and wouldn't eat or anything because of them. They go up yearly to worship and to sacrifice there at Shiloh. There is no evidence of widespread worship activity atShiloh where the tabernacle was. People seem to just be kind of doing their own,