The books of Kings
Subtitle: sources, composition, historiography and reception
By: edited by Andre Lemaire and Baruch Halpern ; associate editor, Matthew J. Adams.
Contributors: Lemaire, Andre.; Halpern, Baruch.; Adams, Matthew J.
Series: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; v. 129
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 710
ISBN-13: 9789004177291
Subjects: Bible. -- Kings -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Septuagint in the text history of 1-2 Kings / Adrian Schenker; title: Qumran fragments of the books of Kings / Julio Trebolle; title: The text of 1-2 Kings used by Josephus / Etienne Nodet; title: Theories of the redaction(s) of Kings / Gary N. Knoppers; title: Characterization in Kings / Robert L. Cohn; title: The composition of Kings / Baruch Halpern and Andre Lemaire; title: Books and writing in Kings / Alan R. Millard; title: The book of Kings and ancient Near Eastern historiography / Mario Liverani; title: Kings and external textual sources: Assyrian, Babylonian  and North-West Semitic / Alan R. Millard; title: The Moabites / Paul-Eugene Dion and P. M. Michele Daviau; title: Edom and the Edomites /   Andre Lemaire; title: Ammonites and the Books of Kings / Walter E. Aufrecht; title: Hiram of Tyre and Solomon / Edward Lipinski; title: The Aramaeans of Syria: some considerations on their origin  and material culture / Helene Sader; title: Philistines in the books of Kings / Seymour Gitin; title: External textual sources; title: Neo-Hittite states /   Kenneth A. Kitchen; title: External textual sources; title: Egypt / Kenneth A. Kitchen; title: External textual sources; title: early Arabia / Kenneth A. Kitchen / "The Prophets"; title: references to generic prophets and their  role in the construction of the image of the "prophets of  old" within the postmonarchic readership(s) of the books  of Kings / Ehud Ben Zvi; title: Priesthood and the development of cult in the books of Kings / Wolfgang Zwickel; title: Dates and calendars in Kings / Gershon Galil; title: Law in Kings / Raymond Westbrook; title: Officialdom and society in the books of Kings the social relevance of the state / Izabela Jaruzelska; title: Trade in 1 and 2 Kings / Daniel M. Master; title: Archaeology and the question of sources in Kings /   William G. Dever; title: Kings in Josephus / Silvia Castelli; title: The books of Kings in New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers / Magnus Zetterholm; title: Elijah and the books of Kings in rabbinic literature / Karin Hedner-Zetterholm.