ritual of a human scapegoat driven from the community for a day. It stands in conscious contrast to 89, whose links with it I have already noted. 89:12, ‘Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name,’ suggests that 89A came not from Dan but from the near-by, and much smaller, sanctuary at Tabor. Perhaps the Danite priests moved down to Tabor after the loss of Dan and Naphtali in the 730’s and took the hymn into their collection then. It is a splendid climax to the week’s celebrations, and was welcomed and
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