Reconsidering Israel and Judah : : Recent Studies on the Deuteronomistic History / / ed. by Gary N. Knoppers, J. Gordon McConville.

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• MitwirkendeR: Barrera, Julio Trebolle,; Cross, Frank Moore,; Dietrich, Walter,; Exum, J. Cheryl,; Gordon, Robert P.,; Gunn, David M.,; Halpern, Baruch,; Herrmann, Siegfried,; Jobling, David,; Knoppers, Gary N.,; Kraus, Hans-Joachim,; Lemaire, André,; Lohfink, Norbert,; McCarter Jr., P. Kyle,; McConville, J. G.,; McKenzie, Steven L.,; Naumann, Thomas,; Nelson, Richard D.,; Noth, Martin,; Plöger, Otto,; Porter, J. Roy,; Rofé, Alexander,; Römer, Thomas,; Seters, John Van,; Smend, Rudolf,; Sperling, S. David,; Veijola, T.,; Weinfeld, Moshe,; Weippert, Helga,; Wenham, Gordon J.,; Wolff, Hans Walter,
• HerausgeberIn: Knoppers, Gary N.,; McConville, J. Gordon,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Sources for Biblical and Theological Study
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (672 p.)

The Deuteronomic or, more properly, Deuteronomistic History is a modern theoretical construct which holds that the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings constitute a single work, unified by a basic homogeneity in language, style, and content. This construct owes much to the influen...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Series Preface
• Editors’ Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part 1 The Theory of a Deuteronomistic History and Its Refinements
• The Central Theological Ideas
• Speech and Prayer in the Deuteronomistic and the Chronicler’s Histories
• “Histories” and “History” Promise and Fulfillment in the Deuteronomistic Historical Work
• The Kerygma of the Deuteronomistic Historical Work
• The Themes of the Book of Kings and the Structure of the Deuteronomistic History
• The Law and the Nations A Contribution to Deuteronomistic Tradition History
• Part 2 Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges
• Deuteronomy in Search of Origins
• The Succession of Joshua
• Gilgal: A Contribution to the History of Worship in Israel
• The Role of the Priesthood in the Deuteronomistic History
• The Deuteronomic Theology of the Book of Joshua
• The Deuteronomist from Joshua to Samuel
• Joshua 24 Re-examined
• Part 3 Samuel, Kings
• The Apology of David
• The David–Saul Narrative
• David’s Rise and Saul’s Demise Narrative Analogy in 1 Samuel 24–26
• Solomon: Bathsheba’s Firstborn
• 1 Kings 8:46–53 and the Deuteronomic Hope
• Prayer and Propaganda Solomon’s Dedication of the Temple and the Deuteronomist’s Program
• Dog Food and Bird Food: The Oracles against the Dynasties in the Book of Kings
• Which Oracle Granted Perdurability to the Davidides? A Textual Problem in 2 Kings 8:19 and the Function of the Dynastic Oracles in the Deuteronomistic Historical Work
• Part 4 New Directions
• Toward a Redactional History of the Book of Kings
• Ephraimite versus Deuteronomistic History
• Redaction, Recension, and Midrash in the Books of Kings
• The Royal Novella in Egypt and Israel A Contribution to the History of Genre in the Historical Books of the Old Testament
• The Counsel of the “Elders” to Rehoboam and Its Implications
• The State of Israelite History
• New Directions in the Study of Biblical Hebrew Narrative
• The Centre Cannot Hold Thematic and Textual Instabilities in Judges
• What, If Anything, Is 1 Samuel?
• Index of Authors