Jonathan (Judges)

Jonathan (Judges)

Jonathan is a figure appearing in the account of Micah's Idol in the Book of Judges, in which he is appointed as the priest of a shrine; since the shrine contained an ephod and teraphim, Jonathan is referred to as an idol-worshipper by traditional Judaism. The text identifies Jonathan as the son of Gershom, son of "Manasseh" [Judges 18:30] , but there is a scribal oddity in that the verse presents the name of "Manasseh" as מנשה, with the "נ" superscripted, which does not occur elsewhere in the Bible; the correct reading may be "Moses" (Hebrew: משה, "Moshe"), and Rashi and other sages suspected as much, arguing that the name was changed to Manasseh to avoid scandalising Moses [ [http://www.yctorah.org/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,117/ Kol Chovevei Torah: Moshe's Unique Prophesy by Rabbi David Almog and Lisa Bennett Almog] ] .

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