Life In Kings: Reshaping The Royal Story In The Hebrew Bible (Ancient Israel And Its Literature)

Follow the words with an expert 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 Housesùa 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. Features aAcritique of the dominant approach to the narrative books in the Hebrew Bible A solid challenge to the widely accepted relationship between Deuteronomy, cultic centralization, and King JosiahÆs reform Key evidence in the heated contemporary debate over the historical development of Biblical Hebrew

• | Author: A. Graeme Auld
• | Publisher: Sbl Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 07, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Religion
• | ISBN-10: 0884142124
• | ISBN-13: 9780884142126