Life in Kings : reshaping the royal story in the Hebrew Bible / / A. Graeme Auld

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820197003321
• Autore: Auld A. Graeme
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Atlanta, Georgia : , : SBL Press, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 0-88414-211-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (322 pages)
• Collana: Ancient Israel and Its Literature ; ; Number 30
• Disciplina: 222/.506
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--