Auld, A. Graeme,

Life in Kings : reshaping the royal story in the Hebrew Bible / by A. Graeme Auld. - 1 online resource. - Ancient Israel and its literature ; number 30 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The story so far -- 2. Life -- 3. More words -- 4. God-King communication in Jerusalem -- 5. Cultic matters: the synoptic tradition -- 6. Towards the synoptic narrative -- 7. Samuel revisited: where Bathsheba can help -- 8. Prophets and kings in Israel -- 9. Re-writing Judah's kings -- 10. Isaiah in the Hezekiah story -- 11. Reading written Kings -- 12. Shared text sampled.

"Building on a lifetime of research and writing, A. Graeme Auld examines passages in Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, and Isaiah that recount the same stories or contain similar vocabulary. He advances his argument that Samuel and Kings were organic developments from a deftly crafted, prophetically interpreted, shared narrative he calls the Book of Two Houses--a work focused on the house of David and the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem. At the end of the study he reconstructs the synoptic material within Kings in Hebrew with an English translation"--

9780884142119 0884142116

22573/ctt1p004g1 JSTOR

2016056912


Bible.--Kings--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.--Kings.


RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament


Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.

BS1335.52

222/.506