Title: The Elijah legends and Jehu's coup /
Authors: White, Marsha C.
Publisher: Scholars Press,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Elijah; Jehu,; Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents: I. The origins of the Elijah legends -- A. The historicity of the Elijah legends -- Elijah and Moses -- Elijah and Elisha -- Elijah and Nathan -- Elijah and Jehu -- Elijah and the drought -- B. The historical context of the Elijah legends -- The vineyard story and the coup narrative -- A tradition history of the Elijah legends and coup narrative -- C. Conclusion -- II. Jehu's coup -- A. Introduction -- B. The narrative evidence -- II Kings 9-10 -- (Qal) "conspire" and palace/military coups -- (Hithpael) "conspire" and a later interpreter -- Comparisons with I Kings 1-2 and I Kings 12 -- C. The historical evidence -- Military coups in the Northern Kingdom -- 842 as the best date for Jehu's overthrow -- Omride military and diplomatic failures after Ahab -- The loss of Moab -- Ahaziah's request refused -- Omride loss of stature in the anti-Assyrian alliance -- Hazael's surprise attack on Joram -- The context for Jehu's coup -- D. Jehu's anti-Baalism -- Introduction -- An historical reconstruction of Jezebel -- Jezebel as Ahab's wife -- Jezebel as Joram's queen mother -- The literary depiction of Jezebel -- Jezebel the apostate -- Jezebel the wicked foreign wife -- Jezebel as arch-villain of the Omrides -- Conclusion.