schemes of the exilic reform priesthood (Ezek. 40ff.; Ex. 25ff.), the post-exilic temple and its rebuilding under Herod still followed the Syro-Palestinian temple tradition.26 Like the religious policy of David and Solomon as a whole, the theology which was developed in the state temple in Jerusalem is stamped with an official syncretism. The royal priests and theologians who, like Zadok and probably also Nathan, came from a Jebusite milieu, took up the pre-Israelite