Josiah's reform and the dynamics of defilement
Subtitle: Israelite rites of violence and the making of a biblical text
By: Lauren A. S. Monroe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780199774166
Subjects: Historiography; Bible; Jews; Criticism, interpretation; Deuteronomistic history (Biblical criticism); Violence in the Bible; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-198) and index.
Table of contents: title: Destructive rituals and the creative process: the dynamics of defilement in 2 kings 23; title: Priestly rites of elimination and the holiness : core of 2 Kings 23:4-20; title: Herem ideology and the politics of destruction: Josiah's reform in Deuteronomistic perspective; title: The mechanics of transformation: the holiness substratum and Deuteronomistic revision of 2 Kings 23:4-20; title: Literary, historiographic, and historical implications.