Soundings in Kings : perspectives and methods in contemporary scholarship /
Leuchter, Mark.
Adam, Klaus-Peter,1965-
Minneapolis, Minn. : Fortress Press,
c2010.
The reigning assumptions in 1970s and 1980s scholarship on 1 and 2 'Kings', and indeed on all of the Deuteronomistic history, have come under serious question. How can differing views of that history be reconciled? What sources were available to the authors? Here, scholars pursue these and related questions.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction / Mark Leuchter and Klaus-Peter Adam -- Part I: Sources and transmission -- Text and literary history : the case of 1 Kings 19 (MT and LXX) / Phillipe Hugo -- Warfare and treaty formulas in the background of Kings / Klaus-Peter Adam -- Part II: Prophecy and redaction -- Prophetess of doom : hermeneutical reflections on the Huldah oracle (2 Kings 22) / Michael Pietsch -- Hezekiah, Manasseh, and Dynastic or transgenerational punishment / Jeremy Schipper -- Part III: Authors and audiences -- The redaction of Kings and priestly authority in Jerusalem / Jeffrey C. Geoghegan -- The sociolinguistic and rhetorical implications of the source citations in Kings / Mark Leuchter.
The reigning assumptions in 1970s and 1980s scholarship on 1 and 2 'Kings', and indeed on all of the Deuteronomistic history, have come under serious question. How can differing views of that history be reconciled? What sources were available to the authors? Here, scholars pursue these and related questions.
Bible.