The 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: value: First book of Kings; value: Who shall inherit the grand years of David? (chs. 1-4); value: Solomon enthroned (ch. 1); value: "Blood will have blood" (2:1-11); value: "The wisdom of Solomon" (2:12-46); value: Dreams and shadows of dreams (ch. 3); value: The apotheosis of empire (ch. 4); value: Stone upon stone, the king constructs immortality (chs. 5-9); value: The "great pyramid" of Solomon (ch. 5); value: The house of the Lord? (ch. 6); value: A palace fit for a king? (ch. 7); value: The temple dedicated : folly, fiction, obsession (ch. 8); value: The tyrant and the convenient deity (ch. 9); value: From Solomon to Jeroboam : kings run amok (chs. 10-13); value: The king and the queen : wisdom compounded, unconfounded (10:1-13); value: The great king : possessed by possessions (10:14-29); value: Shadows over the empire (11:1-8); value: Enemies and traitors : the decline and fall (11:9-43); value: The seamless cloak, torn (ch. 12); value: No strange gods before me (ch. 13); value: ^Of kings and their gods : a tale of woe (chs. 14-22); value: ^Jeroboam and Rehoboam : undone by idols (ch. 14); value: A line of nonentities (chs. 15-16); value: At long last, relief : Elijah the plainspoken (chs. 17-18); value: Elijah and Elisha: God's chosen chooses (ch. 19); value: King Ahab and the deity (chs. 20-21); value: War, and yet again war (ch. 22); value: Second book of Kings; value: Of kings and prophets : light and darkness contending (chs. 1:1-6:23); value: Ahaziah : another king falls (ch. 1); value: "My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its driver!" (ch. 2); value: Elisha : a prophet to love and to loathe (chs. 3-4); value: A virtuous duet and a dubious spirit (ch. 5); value: A gift of unexpected mercy (6:1-23); value: Famine and fury : war and its shadows (6:24-17:41); value: The horrid banquet of war (ch. 6); value: A moment's relief : the siege lifted (ch. 7); value: Something terrible beyond telling (ch. 8); value: The blood of kings; value: and queens (chs. 9-11); value: A king's greed, a prophet's epitaph (chs. 12-13); value: ^The spoils of war, continued (chs. 14, 15, 16); value: ^Exile : the final tragedy (ch. 17); value: Dawn at last : Isaiah and the last days of empire (chs. 18-25); value: Hezekiah : king of contradiction (ch. 18); value: Isaiah : prophet of hope against hope (ch. 19); value: A puzzle of praise for a foolish king (ch. 20); value: Innocent blood on royal hands (ch. 21); value: The scroll : restored for good? (chs. 22-23); value: Light amid the king's dark legacy (chs. 24-25).