YHWH is king
Subtitle: the development of divine kingship in ancient Israel
By: by Shawn W. Flynn
Series: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum -- volume 159; Supplements to Vetus Testamentum -- v. 159.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9789004263031; 9789004263048
Subjects: Kings and rulers; Bible; Enūma elīś; Biblical teaching; God; Criticism, interpretation; König; Kingship
Description: Amidst various methodologies for the comparative study of the Hebrew Bible, at times the opportunity arises to improve on a method recently introduced into the field. In YHWH is King, Flynn uses the anthropological method of cultural translation to study diachronic change in YHWH's kingship. Here, such change is compared to a similar Babylonian development to Marduk's kingship. Based on that comparison and informed by cultural translation, Flynn discovers that Judahite scribes suppressed the earlier YHWH warrior king and promoted a creator/universal king in order to combat the increasing threat of Neo-Assyrian imperialism. Flynn thus opens the possibility, that Judahite scribes engaged in a cultural translation of Marduk to YHWH, in order to respond to the mounting Neo-Assyrian presence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Stages of YHWH's kingship in ancient Israel; title: Cultural translation as method; title: Marduk's kingship; title: The context and motivation for YHWH's new kingship; title: From warrior king to creator king: change in YHWH's kingship as theological response to Neo-Assyrian imperialism.