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Two Nations Under God The Reign Of Jeroboam The Fall Of Israel And The Reign Of Josiah
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Book Synopsis Two Nations Under God: The reign of Jeroboam, the fall of Israel, and the reign of Josiah by : Gary N. Knoppers
Download or read book Two Nations Under God: The reign of Jeroboam, the fall of Israel, and the reign of Josiah written by Gary N. Knoppers and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Two Nations Under God: The Deuteronomistic History of Solomon and the Dual Monarchies by : Gary N. Knoppers
Download or read book Two Nations Under God: The Deuteronomistic History of Solomon and the Dual Monarchies written by Gary N. Knoppers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Sins of Jeroboam -- Jeroboam, Prophecy, and Josiah -- The Fall of Jeroboam -- Innovation as Renovation: Josiah and 'The Scroll of the Torah ' -- Josiah's Reforms: Recovering The Davidic-Solomonic Kingdom -- Cult and Kingdom: The Deuteronomistic Presentation of the Monarchy -- Bibliography -- Index of Citations -- Index of Authors.
Book Synopsis Two Nations Under God: The reign of Jeroboam, the fall of Israel, and the reign of Josiah by : Gary N. Knoppers
Download or read book Two Nations Under God: The reign of Jeroboam, the fall of Israel, and the reign of Josiah written by Gary N. Knoppers and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Body Royal by : Mark W. Hamilton
Download or read book The Body Royal written by Mark W. Hamilton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book rethinks the problem of Israelite kingship by examining how the male royal body and its self-presentation figured in the governance of the dual monarchies of Israel and Judah. As such, this is a reopening of old questions and an opening to new ones.
Book Synopsis Tel Dan in Its Northern Cultic Context by : Andrew R. Davis
Download or read book Tel Dan in Its Northern Cultic Context written by Andrew R. Davis and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents in detail a description of archaeological data from the Iron II temple complex at Tel Dan in northern Israel. Davis analyzes the archaeological remains from the ninth and eighth centuries, paying close attention to how the temple functioned as sacred space. Correlating the archaeological data with biblical depictions of worship, especially the “textual strata” of 1 Kings 18 and the book of Amos, Davis argues that the temple was the site of “official” and family religion and that worship at the temple became increasingly centralized. Tel Dan's role in helping reconstruct ancient Israelite religion, especially distinctive religious traditions of the northern kingdom, is also considered.
Book Synopsis The House of David by : Mahri Leonard-Fleckman
Download or read book The House of David written by Mahri Leonard-Fleckman and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current scholarly debate over the historical character of David’s rule generally considers the biblical portrait to represent David as king of Judah first, and subsequently over “all Israel.” The ninth-century Tel Dan inscription, which refers to the “House of David” (byt dwd), is often taken as evidence for the dynasty of Judah. Mahri Leonard-Fleckman argues, however, that references to Judah in the story of David as king do not suffice to constitute a coherent stratum of material about Judah as a political entity. Comparing the “house of . . .” terminology in the ninth-century Tel Dan inscription with early first-millennium Assyrian usage, then giving close examination to the “house of David” materials in 2 Samuel and 1 Kings, she understands the “house of David” as a small body politic connected to David, but distinct from any Judean dynastic context. One implication is that the identification of Judah as a later southern kingdom may have less to do with an Israelite secession from Jerusalem than with an Israelite rejection of David’s lineage and the subsequent redactional creation of Judah-centric language on the part of a Davidic coterie. Leonard-Fleckman’s arguments suggest a rethinking of the rise of monarchy in Israel.
Book Synopsis The Fate of the Man of God from Judah by : Man Hee Yoon
Download or read book The Fate of the Man of God from Judah written by Man Hee Yoon and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old prophet of Bethel lies to the man of God from Judah, only to lead him to disobey God’s command and to die as a result. The man of God is killed for disobedience, while the old prophet lives on and eventually even benefits from the death (2 Kgs 23:18). Why did God punish his prophet who was deceived, not the one who deceived? The text keeps silent about this as well as about the motive of the old prophet’s lying. This strange story takes up a big portion of the Jeroboam narrative (1 Kgs 11–14). For what purpose would the narrator have included the story in his coverage of Israel’s history during the reign of King Jeroboam? Does this story have any relevance to the rise and fall of the first king of the northern kingdom? If so, how? As it untangles the difficult details of the story, this book reveals the narrator’s perspective on the way God intervened in the history of Israel and focuses on the suffering that God’s prophets sometimes had to undergo as bearers of God’s words.
Book Synopsis The Characterization of an Empire by : Mary Katherine Yem Hing Hom
Download or read book The Characterization of an Empire written by Mary Katherine Yem Hing Hom and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assyria—the missing link in the superpower oppressor type in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament—still suffers from modern scholarly neglect. The Characterization of an Empire aims to alleviate this neglect while also elucidating the historical biblical books that convey characterizations of Assyrians. The narratological insights gained throughout this study contribute to biblical literary studies at rigorous, detailed, sometimes deep, and sometimes complex levels. Thus, this book offers to be not only a contribution to the general corpus of biblical literary studies, but also an expansion of our paradigms regarding the detail, depth, and complexity at which narratological intention and artistry function in the biblical text.
Book Synopsis Portrait of the Kings by : Alison L. Joseph
Download or read book Portrait of the Kings written by Alison L. Joseph and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph examines the narrative techniques used in the Deuteronomistic History to portray Israels kings. While David is constructed as a model of adherence to the covenant, Jeroboam is constructed as the ideal opposite; other kings are characterized along one or the other of these two models. The narrative functions didactically, instructing kings and the people of Judah regarding the consequences of disobedience. Joseph identifies differences between pre-exilic and exilic redactions in the Deuteronomistic History, offering a deepened understanding of the worldview and theology of this important biblical work.
Book Synopsis Jews and Samaritans by : Gary N. Knoppers
Download or read book Jews and Samaritans written by Gary N. Knoppers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the R.B.Y. Scott Award from the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Even in antiquity, writers were intrigued by the origins of the people called Samaritans, living in the region of ancient Samaria (near modern Nablus). The Samaritans practiced a religion almost identical to Judaism and shared a common set of scriptures. Yet the Samaritans and Jews had little to do with each other. In a famous New Testament passage about an encounter between Jesus and a Samaritan woman, the author writes, "Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans." The Samaritans claimed to be descendants of the northern tribes of Joseph. Classical Jewish writers said, however, that they were either of foreign origin or the product of intermarriages between the few remaining northern Israelites and polytheistic foreign settlers. Some modern scholars have accepted one or the other of these ancient theories. Others have avidly debated the time and context in which the two groups split apart. Covering over a thousand years of history, this book makes an important contribution to the fields of Jewish studies, biblical studies, ancient Near Eastern studies, Samaritan studies, and early Christian history by challenging the oppositional paradigm that has traditionally characterized the historical relations between Jews and Samaritans.
Book Synopsis Nathan's Oracle (2 Samuel 7) and Its Interpreters by : Michael Avioz
Download or read book Nathan's Oracle (2 Samuel 7) and Its Interpreters written by Michael Avioz and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new analysis of Nathan's Oracle in 2 Samuel 7 and its echoes in the books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles. First, it deals separately with the main issues raised in 2 Samuel 7: the disqualification of David as temple builder and the nature of the Divine promise made to him that the House of David will rule forever. In dealing with both elements similar texts from the Ancient Near East are consulted. After a thorough analysis of these two elements, an intertextual study is offered in which the allusions to Nathan's Oracle in the Books Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles are discussed. The purpose is to define the various functions of these allusions or echoes. This evaluation takes into account the changing circumstances of the Davidic dynasty, as well as the different agendas of the books in which Nathan's Oracle is incorporated in.
Book Synopsis Portrayals of Economic Exchange in the Book of Kings by : Roger S. Nam
Download or read book Portrayals of Economic Exchange in the Book of Kings written by Roger S. Nam and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the Polanyian categories of reciprocity, redistribution and market trade, this book examines the exchange narratives within 1 and 2 Kings in an effort to clarify the nature of the economic structures behind the biblical text.
Book Synopsis The Jehu Revolution by : Jonathan Miles Robker
Download or read book The Jehu Revolution written by Jonathan Miles Robker and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph re-evaluates the literary development of 2 Kings 9–10 within the context of the Deuteronomistic History. This undertaking opens with a thorough text and literary critical examination of the pericope, arriving at the conclusion that the narrative of 2 Kings 9–10 represents neither an insertion into the Deuteronomistic corpus, nor an independent literary tradition. Rather, when considering the Greek textual traditions of the biblical narrative (most especially B and Ant.), one can appreciate the narrative of Jehu’s revolution within the literary context of an extensive politically motivated narrative about the Israelite monarchy covering the period from the reigns of Jeroboam I to Jeroboam II. The identification of this pro-Jehuide source within the book of Kings enables a reliable dating into the 8th century BCE for much of the material in Kings focusing on the Northern Kingdom. Comparing this biblical narrative to other (mostly Mesopotamian and Syrian) texts relevant to Israelite history of the period advances the discourse about the veracity of the biblical narrative when contrasted with extrabiblical traditions and permits the plausible reconstruction of Israelite history spanning the 8th and 9th centuries BCE.
Book Synopsis The Book of Kings and Exilic Identity by : Nathan Lovell
Download or read book The Book of Kings and Exilic Identity written by Nathan Lovell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathan Lovell proposes that 1 and 2 Kings might be read as a work of written history, produced with the explicit purpose of shaping the communal identity of its first readers in the Babylonian exile. By drawing on sociological approaches to the role historiography plays in the construction of political identity, Lovell argues the book of Kings is intended to reconstruct a sense of Israelite identity in the context of these losses, and that the book of Kings moves beyond providing a reason for the exile in Israel's history, and beyond even connecting its exilic audience to that history. The book recalls the past in order to demonstrate what it means to be Israel in the (exilic) present, and to encourage hope for the Israelite nation in the future. After developing a reading strategy for 1–2 Kings that treats the book as a coherent narrative, Lovell examines the construction of Israelite identity within Kings under the headings of covenant, nationhood, land, and rule. In each case he suggests that the narrative of the book creates room for a genuine but temporary expression of Israelite identity in exile: genuine to show that it remains possible for Israel to be Yahweh's people during the exile, but temporary to encourage hope for a future restoration.
Book Synopsis Reconstructing the Temple by : Andrew R. Davis
Download or read book Reconstructing the Temple written by Andrew R. Davis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines temple renovation as a rhetorical topic within royal literature of the ancient Near East. Unlike newly founded temples, which were celebrated for their novelty, temple renovations were oriented toward the past. Kings took the opportunity to rehearse a selective history of the temple, evoking certain past traditions and omitting others. In this way, temple renovations were a kind of historiography. Andrew R. Davis demonstrates a pattern in the rhetoric of temple renovation texts: that kings in ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, Syria and Persia used temple renovation to correct, or at least distance themselves from, some turmoil of recent history and to associate their reigns with an earlier and more illustrious past. Davis draws on the royal literature of the seventh and sixth centuries BCE for main evidence of this rhetoric. Furthermore, he argues for reading the story of Jeroboam I's placement of calves at Dan and Bethel (1 Kgs 12:25-33) as an eighth-century BCE account of temple renovation with a similar rhetoric. Concluding with further examples in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, Reconstructing the Temple demonstrates that the rhetoric of temple renovation was a distinct and longstanding topic in the ancient Near East.
Book Synopsis The Levites and the Boundaries of Israelite Identity by : Mark Leuchter
Download or read book The Levites and the Boundaries of Israelite Identity written by Mark Leuchter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a glance, the Hebrew Bible presents the Levites as a group of ritual assistants and subordinates in Israel's cult. A closer look, however, reveals a far more complicated history behind the emergence of this group in Ancient Israel. A careful reconsideration of the sources provides new insights into the origins of the Levites, their social function and location, and the development of traditions that grew around them. The social location and self-perception of the Levites evolved alongside the network of clans and tribes that grew into a monarchic society, and alongside the struggle to define religious and social identity in the face of foreign cultures. This book proposes new ways to see not only how these changes affected Levite self-perception but also the manner in which this perception affected larger trends as Israelite religion evolved into nascent Judaism. By consulting the textual record, archaeological evidence, the study of cultural memory and social-scientific models, Mark Leuchter demonstrates that the Levites emerge as boundary markers and boundary makers in the definition of what it meant to be part of "Israel."
Book Synopsis The Face of Old Testament Studies by : David W. Baker
Download or read book The Face of Old Testament Studies written by David W. Baker and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars provide an overview of current issues in Old Testament studies.
