After Zedekiah: Who and What was Gedaliah ben Ahikam?
This article offers an historical and archaeological reconstruction of the person and status of Gedaliah ben Ahikam recounted at 2 Kgs 25.22-26 and Jeremiah 40-41. It builds upon Joseph Blenkinsopp's recent (2013) defence of the controversial theory, first proposed by Miller and Hayes (1986), t...
Published in: | Journal for the study of the Old Testament |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
[2017]
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Journal for the study of the Old Testament
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Könige 2. 25,22-26
/ Bible. Jeremia 40-41
/ Gedaliah
/ Judah (Monarchy)
/ King
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IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
Further subjects: | B
Gedaliah
Exile
Mizpah
Babylon
Judah
Nebuchadnezzar II
Jeremiah
Zedekiah
Neo-Babylonian Judah
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Summary: | This article offers an historical and archaeological reconstruction of the person and status of Gedaliah ben Ahikam recounted at 2 Kgs 25.22-26 and Jeremiah 40-41. It builds upon Joseph Blenkinsopp's recent (2013) defence of the controversial theory, first proposed by Miller and Hayes (1986), that Gedaliah was installed at Mizpah as a Judahite client king of Nebuchadnezzar II. It suggests that elements of Joel Weinberg's (2007) more conservative reconstruction can be applied constructively to the hypothesis of Gedaliah as Judah's non-Davidide king. Future studies of Neo-Babylonian Judah must take seriously the possibility that there was, for a while, a rump Kingdom of Judah established around Mizpah in Benjamin. |
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ISSN: | 1476-6728 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0309089216667386 |