The Books of Kings

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xvi, 710 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Baruch Halpern, Ph.D. (1978) in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University, holds the Chaiken Family Chair in Jewish Studies, and is Professor of Ancient History, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and Religious Studies, and Fellow of the Institute of Arts and Humanities, at Pennsylvania State University.

André Lemaire, Ph.D. (1973) in Oriental Studies, University of Paris III is correspondent of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres (Paris) and Professor of Hebrew and Aramaic Philology and Epigraphy at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne, Paris). He has published extensively on Bible and West Semitic Epigraphy including NAISSANCE DU MONOTHÉISME. Point de vue d'un historien (Paris, Bayard, 2003) = THE BIRTH OF MONOTHEISM (Washington, Biblical Archaeology Society, 2007).

Readership

Those studying the Bible, its formation and tranmission, the history of Israel or the Levant, and ancient literature and historiography, as well as theologians, Hebraists, archaeologists and epigraphers.

Preface
Terms, Sigla, and Abbreviations

PART ONE
TEXTUAL TRADITION OF THE BOOK OF KINGS

The Septuagint in the Text History of 1-2 Kings
Adrian Schenker
Qumran Fragments of the Books of Kings
Julio Trebolle Barrera
The Text of 1-2 Kings Used by Josephus
Étienne Nodet

PART TWO
KINGS AS A LITERARY WORK

Theories of the Redaction(s) of Kings
Gary N. Knoppers
Characterization in Kings
Robert L. Cohn
The Composition of Kings
Baruch Halpern and André Lemaire
Books and Writing in Kings
Alan R. Millard

PART THREE
KINGS AND ITS NEAR EASTERN MILIEU

The Book of Kings and Ancient Near Eastern Historiography
Mario Liverani
Kings and External Textual Sources: Assyrian, Babylonian and North-West Semitic
Alan R. Millard

PART FOUR
THE PEOPLE OF KINGS

The Moabites
Paul-Eugène Dion and P. M. Michèle Daviau
Edom and the Edomites
André Lemaire
Ammonites and the Books of Kings
Walter E. Aufrecht
Hiram of Tyre and Solomon
Edward Lipiński
The Aramaeans of Syria: Some Considerations on Their Origin and Material Culture
Hélène Sader
Philistines in the Books of Kings
Seymour Gitin
External Sources: Neohittite States
Kenneth A. Kitchen
External Sources: Egypt
Kenneth A. Kitchen
External Sources: Early Arabia
Kenneth A. Kitchen

PART FIVE
DETAILED ISSUES OF KINGS

“The Prophets” – References to Generic Prophets and Their Role in the Construction of the Image of the “Prophets of Old” within the Postmonarchic Readership(s) of the Books of Kings
Ehud Ben Zvi
Priesthood and the Development of Cult in the Books of Kings
Wolfgang Zwickel
Dates and Calendars in Kings
Gershon Galil
Law in Kings
Raymond Westbrook
Officialdom and Society in the Books of Kings: The Social Relevance of the State
Izabela Jaruzelska
Trade in 1-2 Kings
Daniel M. Master
Archaeology and the Question of Sources in Kings
William G. Dever

PART SIX
RECEPTION IN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY

Kings in Josephus
Silvia Castelli
The Books of Kings in New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers
Magnus Zetterholm
Elijah and the Books of Kings in Rabbinic Literature
Karin Hedner-Zetterholm

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