1 Kings 16 - 2 Kings 16 (International Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament)
Brand: Kohlhammer
Author: Steve McKenzie
Number Of Pages: 500
EAN: 9783170340404
Release Date: 31-12-2018
Languages: English
Binding: Hardcover
Package Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.1 x 1.3 inches
Details: This volume makes use of diverse methods and approaches to offer fresh treatments of 1 Kings 16 - 2 Kings 16 both synchronically and diachronically. Among its major contributions are a detailed text-critical analysis that frequently adopts readings of the Old Greek and Old Latin and, at the same time, a reexamination of the variant chronologies for the kings of Israel and Judah that argues for the priority of the one in the Masoretic Text. The book presents a new theory of the compositional history of these chapters that ascribes them mostly to the hand of a postexilic "Prophetic Narrator" who reworked older legenda, especially about Elisha, and effectively shaped Kings into the work we have today.