Prophets, priests, and promises : : essays on the Deuteronomistic history, Chronicles, and Ezra-Nehemiah / / Gary N. Knoppers ; editors, Christl M. Maier, H. G. M. Williamson.

"Shortly before his untimely death Gary Knoppers prepared a number of articles on the historical books in the Hebrew Bible for this volume. Many had not previously been published and the others were heavily revised. They combine a fine attention to historical method with sensitivity for literar...

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Superior document:Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; Volume 186.
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; Volume 186.
Physical Description:1 online resource (471 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Constructing the Israelite Past in Ancient Judah (I)
  • From Israel to Judah in the Deuteronomistic Writing: A History of Calamities?
  • Constructing the Israelite Past in Ancient Judah (II)
  • Synoptic Texts, Mimesis, and the Problem of "Rewritten Bible"
  • Theft or Mimesis? The Non-Citation of Older Writings in Chronicles
  • "As It is Written": What Were the Chronicler's Prophetic Sources?
  • "Yhwh will Raise Up for You a Prophet like Me": Prophetic Succession in Chronicles
  • David's Relation to Moses: The Contexts, Contents, and Conditions of the Davidic Promises
  • Blood, Toil, and Treasure: Royal (Mis)appropriations in Samuel-Kings and Chronicles
  • Yhwh's Rejection of the House Built for His Name: On the Significance of Anti-temple Rhetoric in the Deuteronomistic History
  • Defeat, Depopulation, and Displacement: The Judahite Exile of the Eighth Century BCE
  • "Wrath without Remediation": The Babylonian Exile and the Question of Immediate Retribution in Chronicles
  • Whodunit? The Unlikely Disappearance of Zerubbabel
  • Argumentum e silentio? Mizpah and Ramat Raḥel in Ezra-Nehemiah
  • Ethnicity and Change: The Judean Communities of Babylon and Jerusalem in the Story of Ezra.