Life in Kings: reshaping the royal story in the Hebrew Bible
"Building on a lifetime of research and writing, A. Graeme Auld examines passages in Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, and Isaiah that recount the same stories or contain similar vocabulary. He advances his argument that Samuel and Kings were organic developments from a deftly crafted, prophetically i...
| Published in: | Ancient Israel and its literature |
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| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Atlanta
SBL Press
[2017]
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| In: |
Ancient Israel and its literature (Number 30)
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| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Auld, A. Graeme, Life in Kings: Reshaping the Royal Story in the Hebrew Bible] (2018) (Wisley, Lucas Glen)
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| Series/Journal: | Ancient Israel and its literature
Number 30 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Old Testament
/ King (Motif)
/ Davidites Family
/ Narrative exegesis
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible. Kings
Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Bible B Criticism, interpretation, etc |
| Summary: | "Building on a lifetime of research and writing, A. Graeme Auld examines passages in Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, and Isaiah that recount the same stories or contain similar vocabulary. He advances his argument that Samuel and Kings were organic developments from a deftly crafted, prophetically interpreted, shared narrative he calls the Book of Two Houses--a work focused on the house of David and the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem. At the end of the study he reconstructs the synoptic material within Kings in Hebrew with an English translation"-- 1. The story so far -- 2. Life -- 3. More words -- 4. God-King communication in Jerusalem -- 5. Cultic matters: the synoptic tradition -- 6. Towards the synoptic narrative -- 7. Samuel revisited: where Bathsheba can help -- 8. Prophets and kings in Israel -- 9. Re-writing Judah's kings -- 10. Isaiah in the Hezekiah story -- 11. Reading written Kings -- 12. Shared text sampled |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-288) and index |
| ISBN: | 1628371714 |