kings and their gods
Subtitle: the pathology of power
By: Daniel Berrigan.
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780802860439
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Kings -- Commentaries
Table of contents: title: First book of Kings; title: Who shall inherit the grand years of David? (chs. 1-4); title: Solomon enthroned (ch. 1); title: "Blood will have blood" (2:1-11); title: "The wisdom of Solomon" (2:12-46); title: Dreams and shadows of dreams (ch. 3); title: The apotheosis of empire (ch. 4); title: Stone upon stone, the king constructs immortality (chs. 5-9); title: The "great pyramid" of Solomon (ch. 5); title: The house of the Lord? (ch. 6); title: A palace fit for a king? (ch. 7); title: The temple dedicated : folly, fiction, obsession (ch. 8); title: The tyrant and the convenient deity (ch. 9); title: From Solomon to Jeroboam : kings run amok (chs. 10-13); title: The king and the queen : wisdom compounded, unconfounded (10:1-13); title: The great king : possessed by possessions (10:14-29); title: Shadows over the empire (11:1-8); title: Enemies and traitors : the decline and fall (11:9-43); title: The seamless cloak, torn (ch. 12); title: No strange gods before me (ch. 13); title: Of kings and their gods : a tale of woe (chs. 14-22); title: Jeroboam and Rehoboam : undone by idols (ch. 14); title: A line of nonentities (chs. 15-16); title: At long last, relief : Elijah the plainspoken (chs. 17-18); title: Elijah and Elisha: God's chosen chooses (ch. 19); title: King Ahab and the deity (chs. 20-21); title: War, and yet again war (ch. 22); title: Second book of Kings; title: Of kings and prophets : light and darkness contending (chs. 1:1-6:23); title: Ahaziah : another king falls (ch. 1); title: "My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its driver!" (ch. 2); title: Elisha : a prophet to love and to loathe (chs. 3-4); title: A virtuous duet and a dubious spirit (ch. 5); title: A gift of unexpected mercy (6:1-23); title: Famine and fury : war and its shadows (6:24-17:41); title: The horrid banquet of war (ch. 6); title: A moment's relief : the siege lifted (ch. 7); title: Something terrible beyond telling (ch. 8); title: The blood of kings; title: and queens (chs. 9-11); title: A king's greed, a prophet's epitaph (chs. 12-13); title: The spoils of war, continued (chs. 14, 15, 16); title: Exile : the final tragedy (ch. 17); title: Dawn at last : Isaiah and the last days of empire (chs. 18-25); title: Hezekiah : king of contradiction (ch. 18); title: Isaiah : prophet of hope against hope (ch. 19); title: A puzzle of praise for a foolish king (ch. 20); title: Innocent blood on royal hands (ch. 21); title: The scroll : restored for good? (chs. 22-23); title: Light amid the king's dark legacy (chs. 24-25).