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concept-285	none	Sometimes the Center is the Wrong Place to Be: An Examination of Isaiah 66:17*	2006	13	.pdf	application/pdf	6096	263	55	Given that garden cults seemed to be plentiful, perhaps it is a mistake to try to whittle their characterization down to one specific deity; likely, many gods were worshipped in this manner, and it might be impossible to determine the particular from the generic in Isaiah 65:3 and Isaiah 66:17. Blenkinsopp grants that Isaiah 66:17 might be contextually isolated from its surrounding verses, but has enough in common with Isaiah 65:3-7 to admit the same source.7 Of these five verses, Isaiah 65:3-4 are the most important for my study: 3a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and offering incense on bricks; 4who sit inside tombs, and spend the night in secret places; who eat swine’s flesh, with broth of abominable things in their vessels… Immediately, we notice the thematic similarities of illicit cultic practices taking place in a garden and of the consumption of proscribed foods.	cache/concept-285.pdf	txt/concept-285.txt