TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hutton,Jeremy Michael
TI  - The Transjordanian palimpsest: the overwritten texts of personal exile and transformation in the Deuteronomistic history 
T2  - Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
SN  - 9783110212761
AV  - BS1199.J5 H88 2009eb
U1  - 296.4 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Berlin, New York
PB  - Walter de Gruyter
KW  - Bible
KW  - Historical Books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Historiography
KW  - fast
KW  - Deuteronomistic history (Biblical criticism)
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Rituals & Practice
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Jordan River
KW  - Jordan
KW  - History
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Significantly Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 2005; Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-419) and index; Echoes of the past and topos as text -- Exiles and textiles : Transjordan in history -- Vexed texts : sources of the Deuteronomistic history -- Royal apology and scribalism in iron age Israel -- Of success and succession -- The mystery of the history of David's rise -- The narrative(s) of Saul's rise -- Conclusion: A composite motif
N2  - This study analyzes several passages in the Former Prophets (2 Sam 19:12-44; 2 Kgs 2:1-18; Judg 8:4-28) from a literary perspective, and argues that the text presents Transjordan as liminal in Israel's history, a place from which Israel's leaders return with inaugurated or renewed authority. It then traces the redactional development of Samuel-Kings that led to this literary symbolism, and proposes a hypothesis of continual updating and combination of texts, beginning early in Israel's monarchy and continuing until the final formation of the Deuteronomistic History. Several source documents ma
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