King Josiah of Judah
Subtitle: The Lost Messiah of Israel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 12, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780195133240
First sentence: The Deuteronomistic History (DtrH) plays an important role in the biblical presentation of King Josiah of Judah.
Description: The author shows how King Josiah's reform program to unify Israel and Judah around the Jerusalem temple, laid the foundation for the exilic thinkers who rescued Judaism from the obscurity of Babylonian defeat and exile.