The Solomon Narratives in the Context of the Hebrew Bible
Author: Sean E. Cook
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Published: 2017
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ISBN-13: 9780567673510
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The Solomon Narratives in the Context of the Hebrew Bible
Author: Sean E. Cook
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-06-29
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0567673502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is concerned with ascertaining the value of having two versions of the same monarchic history of Israel within the Hebrew Bible (focusing on the books of Kings and Chronicles). It is furthermore concerned with how the book of Chronicles is read in relation to the book of Kings as Chronicles is so often considered to be a later rewritten text drawing upon an earlier version of the Masoretic Text of Samuel and Kings. The predominant scholarly approach to reading the book of Chronicles is to read it in light of how the Chronicler emended his source texts (additions, omissions, harmonizations). This approach has yielded great success in our understanding of the Chronicler's theology and rhetoric. However, Cook asserts, it has also failed to consider how the book of Chronicles can be read as an autonomous and coherent document. That is, a diachronic approach to reading Chronicles sometimes misses the theological and rhetorical features of the text in its final form. This book shows the great benefit of reading these narratives as autonomous and coherent by using the Solomon narratives as a case study. These narratives are first read individually, and then together, so as to ascertain their uniqueness vis-à-vis one another. Finally, Cook addresses questions related to the concordance of these narratives as well as their purposes within their respective larger literary contexts.
Subversive Scribes and the Solomonic Narrative
Author: Eric A. Seibert
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2006-06-15
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0567027716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvestigates the Solomonic narrative through the optics of propaganda and, specifically, subversion. This book explores examples of scribal subversion in 1 Kings 1-11. It examines texts that undermine the legitimacy or the legacy of Solomon and explores the social context in which scribal subversion was not only possible, but perhaps necessary.
Perils of Wisdom
Author: Sheila Tuller Keiter
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781463243784
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Perils of Wisdom engages the biblical Solomon narrative that appears in the Book of Kings and its reception by Jewish texts from scriptural sources through the traditional commentaries of the Middle Ages. By systematically following the thread of exegesis through biblical, rabbinic, targumic, and medieval Jewish texts, and by examining their interplay with other ancient, Christian, and Islamic treatments of Solomon, Keiter traces the emergence and ascendance of an apologetic image of Solomon that has colored Jewish perceptions of the biblical king ever since"--
Two Versions of the Solomon Narrative
Author: Percy van Keulen
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2005-02-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 904740551X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis monograph deals with the complex problem of the text-historical relation between two versions of the Solomon Narrative: the Hebrew version preserved in the Masoretic Text of the book of Kings and the Greek version handed down in the Septuaginta of 3 Regum.
Narrative in the Hebrew Bible
Author: David M. Gunn
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter almost two centuries of historical criticism, biblical scholarship has recently taken major shifts in direction, most notably toward literary study of the Bible. Much germinal criticism has taken as its primary focus narrative texts of the Hebrew Bible (the "Old Testament"). This study provides a lucid guide to the interpretive possibilities of this movement. Attempting to be both theoretical and practical, it combines discussion of methods and the business of reading in general with numerous illustrations through readings of particular texts. Gunn and Fewell discuss how literary criticism is related to other dominant ways of reading the text over the last two thousand years. In addition, they address characters, including the narrator and God; plot, modifying recent theory to accommodate the peculiar complexity of biblical narratives; and the play of language through repetition, ambiguity, multivalence, metaphor, and intertextuality. Finally, the authors discuss readers and responsibility, exploring the ideological dimension of narrative interpretation. An extensive bibliography completes the book, arranged by subject and biblical text.
The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Wisdom Literature
Author: Katherine J. Dell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-06-09
Total Pages: 533
ISBN-13: 110848316X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn essential guide to wisdom texts, and the major changes in the approach to different biblical and non-biblical wisdom books.
The Solomonic Corpus of 'Wisdom' and Its Influence
Author: Katharine J. Dell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020-09-03
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0198861567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSolomon is the figurehead who holds the family of 'wisdom' texts together. Intertextuality places fresh texts alongside the Solomonic corpus to show how Solomon is the lynch-pin that holds 'wisdom' in its core texts and wider influence together.
The Illustrated Hebrew Bible
Author: Ellen Frankel
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781556709418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesigned to bring the wisdom of centuries to a wide audience, this illustrated Hebrew Bible includes 40 selections from the Torah and 35 from Prophets and Writings.
The Persuasive Portrayal of David and Solomon in Chronicles
Author: Suk-Il Ahn
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2018-02-01
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1532604920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study examines the speeches and prayers in the David-Solomon narrative in Chronicles and seeks to demonstrate that the Chronicler’s portrayal of David and Solomon attempts to establish the Yehudite community’s identity. Is the covenantal relationship still valid in the Persian period? The author asserts that as a commitment to YHWH involving the worship of YHWH through the Jerusalem temple, the covenantal relationship between YHWH and Israel continues even into the Persian period. This study employs Kennedy’s rhetorical method with the new categories of the narrative situation and the Chronicler’s situation being used to further delineate his concept of the narrative situation. The Chronicler’s portrayal of David and Solomon through speeches and prayers serves to persuade his audience of the significance of the Jerusalem temple, reformulating the Yehudite community identity as a cultic community in the Persian period.
